Green Machine Takes Best Pep Band Award

By Connect Mason Sports Director Damien Sordelett
Photos by Broadside Asst. Photography Editor Laura Foltz

Updated: Mason's media personalities win an award. In the player of the year and most annoying fans categories, Mason placed a respectable second. See more below.

RICHMOND - The Green Machine, George Mason University's pep band, won the 2008 CAAZone.com "Zonies" award for best pep band, beating out the VCU pep band.

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The award, which was voted on by posters on CAAZone.com, a forum for fans of the Colonial Athletic Association, came as an upset after an intense voting period that received attention from major media outlets such as the Washington Post.

The CAAZone has held this award ceremony for three years at the Richmond Coliseum in conjunction with the CAA Tournament. This is the seventh year that the awards have been given out.

Other awards: Mason radio announcers Bill Rohland and Rick Wilson were awarded the media personalities of the year.

No other Mason player or group won an award, but came close in several categories. Will Thomas came in second in men's player of the year, finishing behind Eric Maynor of VCU. Though Old Dominion's fan base won the most annoying fans of the year, Mason finished a respectable second in that category.