Mason Athletics

  • September 25, 2024

    Over the course of the next few weeks, leading up to the 50th-anniversary celebration on Oct. 19, a series of Q&As, stories, and social media posts will reflect and celebrate the players and coaches who have built the Patriots women's volleyball program into what it is today.

  • August 29, 2024

    As a first-year setter from Istanbul, Republic of Türkiye, Ozarpaci is embracing new experiences—and tasty fast food—in the nation's capital.

  • August 5, 2024

    George Mason alumnus and former track star Rob Muzzio, BS ’87, finished fifth in the decathlon competition during the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He was one of 10 Patriots who qualified for the Summer Olympics that year.

  • June 12, 2024

    George Mason University student-athletes continued to post impressive scores in the Academic Progress Rate (APR) release by the NCAA. Four programs produced perfect multi-year NCAA APR scores of 1,000 while a total of 11 teams had a perfect APR for the 2022-23 academic year.

  • May 6, 2024

    George Mason lacrosse midfielder and biology major Lauren Distad is the 2024 Aimee Willard Commemorative Award recipient.

  • April 25, 2024

    George Mason University unveiled a completely redesigned logo as the capstone of its three-year-long comprehensive rebrand. The new look, which will include a single logo for the university and its athletics program, asserts George Mason’s emerging identity as a national top 50 public university and Virginia’s top-ranked university for innovation and upward mobility, as well as the commonwealth’s largest, most innovative, and most diverse university.

  • March 21, 2024

    Ali Tyler picked Mason because of its well-regarded Forensic Science Program and proximity to Washington, D.C., a choice that put her on her preferred career path and also allowed her to flourish as one of the Atlantic 10’s best all-around swimmers.

  • March 1, 2024

    Robert “Bobby” Kestyn, a graduate student thrower on Mason’s track and field team, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Becky Hartley Memorial Scholarship.

  • February 28, 2024

    Mason researcher Faith Brown has been using a GPS- and heart rate-based wearable tracker with the Patriots women's basketball team since 2018, before any other women's basketball team in the Atlantic 10.

  • January 10, 2024

    Mason Athletics has announced plans to expand the Recreation Athletic Complex on the Fairfax Campus to provide a modernized academic support venue for Mason’s 500 student-athletes and to improve resources for the men’s and women’s basketball programs.