It's a trifecta of GCAC awards for Price, Sewell

NEW ORLEANS — Xavier University of Louisiana's Taylor Price and Camren Sewell are 3-for-3 during the 2017 cross country season.
     
For the third time in as many opportunities, both have been chosen as Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Runners of the Week, this time for Sept. 4-10.
     
Price, a sophomore from Missouri City, Texas, and a graduate of Ridge Point High School, produced her second top-10 finish of the season and fourth of her career Saturday at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Festival in Metairie, La. Price ran 5,000 meters in 20 minutes, 32.4 seconds to place seventh out of 63 runners. Price finished ahead of 27 runners from NCAA Division I schools.
     
Sewell, a freshman from Cincinnati and a graduate of La Salle High School, placed 21st out of 54 men and ran the 5K in 18:13.5.
     
The GCAC weekly award is the eighth of Price's career. Sewell is the first Gold Rush freshman to earn three GCAC awards since Kwame Jackson in 2011.
     
Next for XULA will be the LSU Invitational at Highland Road Park in Baton Rouge, La. The women's 5K will start at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, followed by the men's 6K at 8:10.
     
NOTES:  The GCAC announced this week the date and site of its 2017 championships — Friday, Oct. 20 at Choctaw Trails Course in Clinton, Miss. Choctaw Trails will play host to the meet for the first time since 2013 and the eighth time overall. XULA's men and women are 10-time defending team champions of the conference. Price was a 2016 individual champion.

Ed Cassiere, Assistant Athletic Director for Communications
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