Redskins coach Mike Shanahan had recently made the decision to move the team’s training camp away from its current location in Ashburn, Va. George Mason University was selected as a prime candidate because of its proximity to Washington D.C. and its facilities, including the new Mason Inn, which would have been taken over by the Redskins organization for the month of August.
All right Mason Nation, we’ve concluded the regular season. Overall we’re 25-5, 16-2 in the CAA and an undefeated home record complete with big heads of Cam and Ike
Thousands upon thousands of collegiate athletes across the nation are gearing up for their respective conference tournaments in attempts to earn a ticket to the big dance. It’s refreshing, really. Thousands of young kids who don’t collect a seven-figure paycheck, but play the game they love because, well, they love it.
Saturday marked the final day of the CAA Swimming Championships here at the Jim McKay Natatorium. Despite a strong showing from both the men’s and women’s teams, they received second and sixth place respectively. The University of North Carolina Wilmington claimed first place for the men and Towson University took it for the women. “We prepared all year for the [CAA] Championship,” said head coach Peter Ward. “It is really the most important meet in the year for us.” Although swimming is very much a team sport, a few strong individual performances shone through during the meet. Sophomore Austin Witherow dominated both the men’s 100-yard butterfly event, winning by almost a 10th of a second, and the 100 yard backstroke, winning it by a full second. For the women, junior Ashley Danner won the 100-yard breaststroke by half a second with at time of 59.06, setting a new record for the CAA Championship. Danner was also a leg of the George Mason 800-yard freestyle relay team that came in third. Other stellar performances came from a first-second place finish by junior Preston Wolter and freshman Fernando Rubio in the 400-yard IM. Junior Bryan Bahr put together an impressive string of […]
As the streak continues, the countdown to the CAA tournament is getting closer. The George Mason University Patriots have been the nation’s hottest team for the past month and a half and will enter the tournament as the No. 1 overall seed. The Patriots claimed the top seed in the CAA tournament with a win on Thursday night against the Northeastern University Huskies.
It’s hard to believe that in 2006 the George Mason University Patriots had the best basketball season in school history.
As he walked through the pathway created by cheerleaders and teammates to receive his framed jersey on Senior Night, guard Cam Long had one arm wrapped around his mother, Myrtle, and the other around his brother, Rendell. Just seven years earlier, Long was involved in an incident in Palm Bay, Fla., that forced his mother to send him more than 850 miles north to live with his brother in Woodbridge. Rendell, Long’s eldest brother by about 15 years, was a former football player at Florida State University and took his troubled sibling into his home as a sophomore in high school. “Just [Rendell’s] being able to help me move up here and not allowing me to be the knucklehead I was in Florida was really a great thing for me,” Long said. “It just showed how much my brother really loved me.” During his sophomore season at Freedom High School, Long’s coach and former Mason basketball player Ahmad Dorsett called coach Jim Larranaga with some recruiting advice. “He told me that he had a sophomore down there that he thought was going to be big time,” Larranaga recalled. “[Long] was 6-foot-4. He was athletic. He could shoot the basketball. And […]
If anyone has ever been to a Mason men’s basketball game, they would know that it seems like it’s raining tiny pieces of paper. As a freshman last season, or any fan for that matter, I was extremely confused as to why the student section would be throwing all this up in the air. However, I quickly learned that this was something I couldn’t wait to participate in for the next four years.
When the George Mason University men’s basketball team is on the road, the crowds seen on game day are absent and the Patriot Center is silent. However, the intensity changes settings and heads to Hard Times Café and Brion’s Grille.
It’s 9:15 a.m. and the RAC is nearly empty, save for a few dedicated weightlifters. But upstairs, the Cage Gym is alive with the 10 or so students who have shown up for Physical Education 120, better known as Introduction to Basketball. And who better to head such a class than two George Mason University icons?
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