NORTH VANCOUVER — There must be some part of Madison Legault which knows she is no longer the baby sister, no longer the tiniest player on her team at 5-foot-2.
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Roan Allen: Bye, bye baseball, hello throws as UBC rookie takes javelin to nationals
VANCOUVER — The best pitch that Roan Allen ever made?
SFU’s Alison McKay: Why she best represents the ethos of Clan athletics
BURNABY — It’s why, on that one night a year when a university athletic program gathers its masses to celebrate its tradition and excellence, we sit transfixed in the moment.
SFU approves plans for covered, on-campus football stadium at Terry Fox Field
BURNABY — It’s actually going to happen.A covered athletic field house to stage football games at Simon Fraser University first reached the stage of artist renderings in the early 1990s.
The Totem becomes a Thunderbird: Semi’s Wallack evokes memories of all-time UBC great
SURREY — Brian Wallack was somewhere around three years of age when a young player from Salmon Arm Secondary named Casey Archibald first donned the blue-and-gold of the UBC Thunderbirds.
Holy Cross’ Konn, Bailey of VC’s Irish each choose SFU Clan to start collegiate careers
BURNABY — A pair of B.C.’s best graduating seniors, each adept at performing in an uptempo setting, have cast their futures with the Simon Fraser Clan men’s basketball program.
Howie’s Big 5 weekend takeaways: SFU’s Addy and Vlad, UBC’s diamond days
The spring season in university sports circles is now in full flight.Here’s our look at five takeaways from the weekend.TALENT GALOREAs I study the continued success of Simon Fraser women’s middle distance running, I’m reminded of a story I wrote in June of 2014, in the aftermath of that season’s Subway B.C. high school track […]
SFU making its NCAA mark: Clan sit sixth overall in a field of 306 Div. 2 schools
BURNABY — When Theresa Hanson assumed the role of athletic director at Simon Fraser University in the fall of 2015, she set a pretty lofty goal for Clan athletics and its place within the 300-plus schools competing at the NCAA Div. 2 level.
UBC pitcher Connor Noble: On Hendrix, experience and life as the ‘Birds staff ace
VANCOUVER — Connor Noble is soft-spoken by nature, yet give him the ball on game days and he’ll show you an edge and a level of grit that in musical terms might best be described as ballsy blues rock.
SFU’s Vlad Tsygankov: Russian ready to face his old hurdles again
BURNABY — A new language. A new culture. A new life.