Career
She has 47 all-time wins and 181 all-time tournaments played. Liz Masakayan hasn"t always played volleyball. When she was ten she played baseball, most of the time she was the only girl on the team
Liz recalls making a pitcher cry one time because she hit a home run.
Masakayan heard a lot of comments from playing on a team full of boys but says "I learned at an early age that if you just worked hard, had fun, and treated people nicely, that everything would fall into place, like winning." When Masakayan was 14 she stopped playing baseball and picked up soccer. She played Soccer for seven years and ran track four years.
She says she helped to form the first girl"s soccer team at Santa Monica High School. Liz has had six knee surgeries and with the help of her practitioner, Sharon Moyano, she was able to play for seven more years after those surgeries eventually making it to the point where she didn"t need anti-inflammatory medication.
Olympics
In 1988 Masakayan played on the United States. team in Seoul, of Korea.
In 2004 she began coaching at the Olympics, first coaching Elaine Youngs and Holly McPeak at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Masakayan says coaching Youngs and McPeak "was a very rewarding first year of coaching on the beach as they brought home the bronze medal from the 2004 Athens Olympics." She currently coaches Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh. In 2008 she went with these women to the Beijing Summer Olympics to Coach them.