Prep notebook: Xavier's AD given national award
Phoenix Xavier athletic director Sister Lynn Winsor received the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Award of Merit last weekend. Sister Winsor received the award at a national conference for athletic directors in Anaheim, Calif. The award is widely regarded as the most prestigious given out by the NIAAA. read full article.
| Volleyball All-Arizona team The Arizona Republic Nov. 24, 2007 05:01 PM |
Sister Act Inspired by a late LPGA pro and guided by one no-nonsense nun, Phoenix's Xavier Prep continues on its holy roll By John Strege Photos: J.D. Cuban November 2, 2007 The golf coach at Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix occupies an office down a long hallway that pictorially pays homage to women of note, including Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks and Margaret Thatcher, none of whom could break 90. Isn't that the point, if not the objective, of this pantheon, a reminder that there is more to life than golf? |
| Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Niece of Tiger Woods signs to play golf at Wake Forest By John Dell JOURNAL REPORTER |
Girls soccer preseason rankings Odeen Domingo The Arizona Republic Nov. 19, 2007 11:32 PM |
| Tiger Woods' Niece named All-American By Mulligan Stu The National High School Golf Coaches Association released its annual boys and girls All-America teams today. The one name that probably will catch the most eyes is that of Cheyenne Woods, the niece of Tiger Woods (daughter of his half-brother, Earl Woods Jr.). |
East Valley briefs: 4 local golfers receive national honors >From Staff Reports Four East Valley golfers were honored by the National High School Golf Courses Association. Three Phoenix Xavier golfers were selected. Cheyenne Woods was named to the All-America team, while teammates Alexia Brown and Ashley Smith were selected as players of achievement. |
Xavier College Prep Student Named Athlete of the Year(July 26 PHOENIX) — Xavier College Preparatory is pleased to announce that senior Natalie Johnson has been named by Gatorade Thirst Quencher as the 2006-07 Arizona Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year |
2 Arizonans named All-American in lacrosse Jeremy Cluff -The Arizona Republic Jun. 15, 2007 07:30 PM Emily Sullivan, a recent graduate of Phoenix Xavier Prep, and McKenzie Lauer, a recent graduate of Phoenix Horizon, have been honored as 2007 All-Americans by US Lacrosse, the national governing body of men's and women's lacrosse. |
| Do you know who my uncle is? By Tom Friend ESPN The Magazine She was about 3 at the time, and she dragged that club over to the net and swung for the moon, leaving 16-year-old Tiger in stitches. And oh, how Grandpa Earl's mind started racing that day: Maybe this was the female Tiger. Maybe this was the sequel. Read more click on link above. |
Johnson on record run at Xavier By Steve Burks, Tribune It all started because she wanted to go to Disney World. With a father who is a former NBA player and coach and a mother who is an avid tennis player, Natalie Johnson could have been led down a different athletiXavier stills reignsc path. |
| East Valley briefs: Xavier 3,200 relay team sets state record The Phoenix Xavier High girls shattered the Arizona state record in the 3,200-meter relay on Friday at the Arcadia Invitational in Arcadia, Calif. The quartet ran 9 minutes, 2 seconds, besting the Arizona record of 9:20. Johnson, who will try to lower her state record in the 800 tonight, ran a 2:07 split. Meanwhile, Phoenix Brophy set a meet record Friday in the 4x110-meter high hurdle shuttle relay at 59.28 seconds. It is the second-fastest time in the country. Corey Dysick, Matt Moore, Adam Thayer and Ray Polk combined on the record |
Double trouble-Turleys, Janeses team up on opposing softball teams The JaneseXavier aims for 25th title s have played key roles in a big improvement for Xavier, which was 15-6 entering this week after a runner-up finish in last weekend's Deer Valley-Sandra Day O'Connor Softball Festival. |
| Assist leader is unsung heroine for Xavier soccer For every great entity, there is a support player who doesn't get quite the recognition that the major star or stars get, but that player is essential to the ultimate success of the group. With the Phoenix Xavier Prep soccer team, that player is senior center-midfielder Ellen Harris, the team's assist leader who, coach Barb Chura says, the Gators can't live without in their quest for their first 5A state title since 2002. | Xavier swamps Horizon the early part of this decade, any Phoenix Xavier Prep-Phoenix Horizon girls' soccer game would be played in front of packed and noisy crowds and would generate a buzz in the Northeast Phoenix-Scottsdale area a week prior and after the game that was usually full of what should memories for a lifetime. |
| Woods sets 9-hole mark Who knows? Maybe someday Tiger Woods will be remembered for being Cheyenne Woods' uncle. OK, let's get real. That probably isn't going to happen.But Cheyenne has firmly placed herself in the record book at Phoenix Xavier by shooting a 6-under 30 last Thursday at Phoenix Country Club to help lead her school to a 6-stroke win over Tucson Catalina Foothills. |
Freshman Preach helps Xavier top Corona Stephanie Preach sat in the stands and watched her future Phoenix Xavier team (and two sisters) capture the state 5A Division I volleyball championship over Tempe Corona del Sol in last year's finals. This year, the freshman hit the match-winning shot that gave Xavier a 25-19, 18-25, 25-14, 25-23 win over the rival Aztecs in early-season play Wednesday in Tempe. |