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By Greg Sullivan

Mason basketball star Justin Kier was named the Atlantic 10's Most Improved Player last season after leading the Patriots in both scoring and rebounds.

But the CEHD student has made other major improvements to his résumé in the past year or so.

Kier, a senior sport management major, recently completed an internship with TITLE Boxing Club Fairfax—that started a couple of weeks after the end of the last college basketball season and ended in mid-July—to fulfill an internship requirement for his sport management major.
The 6-foot-4 guard said he was just looking to branch out to something outside of basketball since he's around that sport so much.

"I thought boxing would be interesting," Kier said. "I told my advisor I wanted to learn a new sport and challenge myself. I didn't want to go into something I already knew just so it would be easy. I told myself, if I like it, which I did, I would also have some contacts I could come back to."

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