Athlete of the Week: Cross Country’s Makenna Mason

The Eagles’ sophomore continues to exceed expectations as the season kicks off.

Joel Ashor, Sports Editor • September 26, 2018

Athlete of the Week: Cross Country’s Makenna Mason

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With cross country season beginning, there are high hopes for men’s and women’s cross country this year. The Eagles received a number one ranking in the PacWest preseason poll, and are hoping to live up to those rankings and then some. Sophomore Mackenna Mason has had an excellent start to the season after a great freshman year and will look to continue leading Biola.

In the Eagles’ first invitational of the year hosted by Biola on Sept. 8, Mason finished third overall in the 5k run with a blazing time of 18:33.01. This helped the Eagles to a third place finish at the tournament to start the year strong.

This past Friday, Mason took second place overall in the 6k run at the San Francisco State Invitational, logging a time of 22:13.7 to help Biola take first place in the team competition out of the 12 schools present.

This terrific display of speed and the ability to consistently finish in the top three has earned Mason Chimes Athlete of the Week.

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Joel Ashor, Sports Editor

Joel Ashor is a junior broadcast journalism major with a love for sports, friends, and history. Joel is a Notre Dame football, Angels baseball, and Boston Celtics fan. [email protected] Growing up in the small city of Santa Maria, California as the youngest of four boys, I was always surrounded by things much earlier than normal, due to the fact that I experienced things through my much older brothers. One of the things I experienced was sports, and when I started watching and seeing what it looked like to be on a sports team, I fell in love. In my family, sports is not really an option, it just is something that we all do. Luckily my parents never had to force me or my brothers to play sports because we all had a passion for it. From a young age I immersed myself in the culture of sports, watching any sport that was on, growing a particular liking to college football. My uncle attended the University of Notre Dame, and my whole family are die-hard Irish fans. Naturally I became one as well, and I remember Saturday mornings with the family quite clearly. As I grew older I began to see and understand more about what it took to broadcast a live sports game, and I became quite intrigued by it. I decided I wanted to be involved with sports for the rest of my life and cover it in some form. One of the sports commentators I look up to greatly and have always liked is NBC sports reporter Bob Costas, who is a jack of all trades broadcaster and covers all sports from the Olympics to football and many more. I aspire to be a broadcast journalist someday, and the Chimes is an excellent way to hone my skills and continue to practice writing and talking about sports. I look forward to my growth while working with the Chimes in reporting accurately and quickly, and cannot wait to cover Biola sports.

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