BY IZZ LAMAGDELEINE, COPY CHIEF When assistant track and field coach Becky Hartley saw sophomore kinesiology major Jaylen Simmons compete for the first time, she knew she had to recruit him. “I had my eye on Jaylen for a while,”…
BY NATALIE HEAVREN, SPORTS EDITOR Bekah Ansbro, a junior on Mason’s softball team, chose her number for a very specific reason. “In high school, I wore 17, because our jerseys only went up to 22, and that’s just what…
BY ROSS SHINBERG, STAFF WRITER From Bethesda, Maryland, to San Antonio, Texas, to Fairfax, Virginia, Mason Men’s Tennis star, junior Eddie Ayers has come full circle. Ayers was born merely 20 miles away from Fairfax, in Bethesda, but spent a…
BY LAURA SCUDDER, SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Underwater hockey … that’s an actual thing? You bet it is. Underwater hockey, or Octopush, as it is commonly referred to in the UK, is played at both national and international levels. Mason has…
Women’s Tennis APR 20 (SAT) 1 P.M. MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE FAIRFAX, VA. TENNIS COURTS Softball APRIL 19 (FRI) 4:00 P.M. LA SALLE (DH) APR 19 (FRI) 6:00 P.M. LA SALLE (DH) APR 20 (SAT) 12:00 P.M. LA SALLE Baseball APR…
BY DANA NICKEL NEWS EDITOR Rico Gomez walked through the indoor track at Mason’s field house as if by muscle memory. It seemed like Gomez had spent so much time there that the field house was his second home, and…
BY DOMENIC ALLEGRA, ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR “That the better self shall prevail, and each generation introduce its successor to a higher plane of life.” It is under this motto that senior Sydney Green played at her high school, Hawken Upper…
BY IZZ LAMAGDELEINE, COPY CHIEF In the Mason Swim Club, which just came back from the Collegiate Club Swimming National Championship, two very different factors are at work: the family feeling that the members find within the club and the…
BY ROSS SHINBERG, STAFF WRITER For Mason baseball’s star catcher, junior Logan Driscoll, baseball is a family affair. Logan’s brother, Garett, was the one who got him into the sport. “It really started for me just following in my brother’s…
BY DOMENIC ALLEGRA, ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR On Tuesday, April 2, The College of William & Mary announced that Mason Men’s Basketball assistant coach Dane Fischer will take the reins of the Tribe as head coach. Fischer, who has coached for…