The side out era

2013 Archive

Feb 20

The last time George Mason Men’s Volleyball team held the Eastern Conference Tournament at home was in 1985 (6 years before I was even born). The top seed in the EIVA at the end of the season gets to play host to the Tournament, and currently we sit alone at the top as the only […]

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Feb 13

Basketball is always a sport that is well known for the general enormity of its players. To put in to perspective for you if you were to look at the roster of our Mason men’s basketball team and the roster from our volleyball team you would notice that we actually have the same average height […]

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Feb 07

In the summer of 2004 Karch Kiraly was 44 years old playing on a sand court that had shrunken in size from his years at the top of the world and added antenna’s that had prevented much of his shot versatility. In the early rounds of the Hermosa Open he had sustained a back injury […]

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Jan 31

The Final Four of the 2012 EIVA Volleyball tournament featured four teams: the George Mason Patriots, the Princeton Tigers, the Penn State Nittany Lions, and the Harvard Crimson. The start of the 2013 season has given the impression that if Mason were to make another trip to the Final Four they will once again have […]

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Jan 31

The 1984 Charlie Saikley 6 Man Volleyball tournament featured the entire men’s Volleyball Olympic Gold Medal team. A volleyball tournament with no entrance fee, no prize money, no trophy, played host to the best volleyball team in the entire world. In 2011 this tournament played host to 90 men’s teams, 65 women’s teams, and over […]

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