Saturday, September 2, 2017

Price and Sewell run away with GCAC weekly awards

NEW ORLEANS — It was business as usual for Taylor Price and a notable debut for Camren Sewell, both of whom produced Xavier University of Louisiana's first Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Runner of the Week awards of the 2017 cross country season.
     

Price, a sophomore from Missouri City, Texas, and a graduate of Ridge Point High School, earned the sixth GCAC award of her career after winning the 2-mile race by nearly 30 seconds at the Xavier Big Easy Opener in City Park. Price's time of 12 minutes, 51.42 seconds was the second-fastest by a XULA woman at that distance.
     

Sewell, from Cincinnati and a graduate of La Salle High School, became the second Gold Rush freshman — the first since Mark Dotson in 2009 — to earn GCAC Runner of the Week as a result of his first collegiate performance. Sewell was third in the Big Easy men's division, running 5,000 meters in 17:36.27.
    

 The GCAC awards were for the week of Aug. 21-27.
     

Next for the Gold Nuggets and Gold Rush will be a Friday trip to Clinton, Miss., for the Mississippi College Opener. The women will run 4,000 meters at 5 p.m., followed by the men's 5K at 5:30.

Ed Cassiere, Assistant Athletic Director for Communications
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