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 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 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 LAURA SCUDDER, SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR Listening to Chachi Kelehan speak about lacrosse and the women’s team here at Mason, one can immediately tell that she knows what it means to be a team player. Kelehan is friendly and clearly…
Men’s Volleyball’s Sam Greenslade excels in a breakout year BY ERIK SATHER, STAFF WRITER Men’s Volleyball’s Sam Greenslade has embraced his role on the team in his breakout season and aims to make every play in every game count. With…
BY DOMENIC ALLEGRA, ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Walking on in your first year of Division I (D-I) sports would usually come with reduced playing time. However, for Mason Rowing’s Elizabeth Johnson, it was quite the opposite. Starting as a novice, someone…
BY NATALIE HEAVREN, SPORTS EDITOR As the final buzzer sounds, the Green Machine begins playing the fight song and senior Otis Livingston II makes his way over to Doc Nix. This exchange is familiar. It’s been happening since Livingston…
BY BASMA HUMADI, MANAGING EDITOR When she first came to Mason, Casey Davis would have never imagined that she would one day be the star in a public dance battle. After winning Simon Says at Mason Madness years back,…
BY NATALIE HEAVREN, SPORTS EDITOR Jewel Triggs’ basketball story began in Thibodaux, La. when she was just six years old. As most parents do, Triggs’ parents threw her into all kinds of sports including basketball, softball and volleyball. She would…