The thirtieth Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) beach volleyball season championship game took place on September 20, 2021. Team P.E. Revival, led by CSHL Fellow Hannah Meyer took the championship title by winning a best two out of three series, earning the championship trophy and a year’s worth of bragging rights to go with it. Players, friends, and coworkers enjoyed a celebratory barbeque near the sand courts during and after the games.
Each summer, the CSHL volleyball league gives faculty, staff, and students an opportunity to have some fun in the sun with their colleagues. But when early September rolls around, the games get serious as the teams face off and see who will place first in that season’s tournament. The league arranges a playoff bracket, which culminates in a final championship match, and the winning team is added to the champions’ plaque. They also receive the Tiernan Cup, named after a neighbor of the Laboratory. It is a CSHL tradition to take photos of the Cup in different places around the world. It has made its way to places like Orient, New York, the Great Wall of China, and Sydney, Australia.
Volleyball game at the 1983 Symposium: Molecular Neurobiology. Image: CSHL Archives
Volleyball game at the 1970 Symposium: Transcription of Genetic Material. Image: CSHL Archives
Shipping & Receiving clerk Wayne Hamilton jumps to block the ball, 2021 CSHL Volleyball League game
CSHL Professor Adrian Krainer hits a serve back to postdoc Tao Yang during a July 2021 CSHL Volleyball League game.
CSHL Assistant Professor Tobias Janowitz serves the ball at a July 2021 CSHL Volleyball League game.
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The Tiernan Cup and Association of Volleyball Professionals official game ball.
Charlie Prizzi, CSHL senior VP of Advancement, and special advisor to the President, with the Tiernan Cup in Sydney, Australia in 2017.
Retired CSHL carpenter Peter Schwind with the Tiernan Cup in Orient, New York.
Tiernan Cup at the Great Wall of China
Robert Tjian (left, professor of University of California, Berkeley) and Rich Freiman (right, CSHL Herr lab) with the Tiernan Cup in California.
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