Claire Eccles throws a pitch that makes batters buckle at the knees. On Tuesday, one of those rare days when your passions and your dreams come together in historic fashion, Eccles could be excused for feeling a little wobbly herself at times.
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Tsumura: Three reasons why Simon Fraser Clan women’s track is ready to make its NCAA mark
BURNABY — Simon Fraser Clan women’s track and field enjoyed a shining moment this past weekend at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championships in Oregon.
UBC rower Harlan Dohm: Tenacity on water mirrors brave battle with Crohn’s Disease
VANCOUVER — Maybe Harlan Dohm came to hold an oar for a reason.After all, what kind of logic leads anyone diagnosed with the Crohn’s, that painful chronic inflammatory disease of the digestive tract, to almost immediately take up a sport as physically and mentally demanding as rowing?
SFU Clan men’s soccer: Grades and on-field greatness find a perfect storm
BURNABY — Adam Jones spent this past season showing every school in the NCAA’s Div. 2 West Region, why he was its top men’s soccer talent.Yet over an off-season in which the rising senior midfielder is preparing to assume the captaincy of the Simon Fraser Clan, it’s been his level of pro-active concern for his […]
Battle scars can’t slow John Kasper, UFV Cascades welcome a soccer survivor
ABBOTSFORD — The first thing John Kasper noticed was the scar.
CFL Draft 2017: SFU sends four to pros, plus Terry Fox, Notre Dame and STM grads enjoy proud moments
BURNABY — Simon Fraser University may not have won a football game this past season, but Canadian Football League scouts saw plenty of talent atop Burnaby Mountain, its teams selecting a total of four Clan players Sunday in the CFL draft.
SFU football 2017: Top 4 things to watch along the Clan offence
It’s May 4, and the countdown to kickoff and the start of the 2017 Great Northwest Athletic Conference football season for the Simon Fraser Clan is exactly 120 days.
UBC Thunderbirds receiver Alex Morrison answers call to duty at New York Giants rookie mini-camp
VANCOUVER — While gaining an invitation to the New York Giants rookie mini-camp offers UBC Thunderbirds’ receiver Alex Morrison no guarantee of an NFL future, recent history has shown that his particular destination packs a ton of karma in the pursuit of a professional football career.
UBC football: QB Parker Simson? Touted two-sport star leaves defence for understudy pivot role
VANCOUVER — Parker Simson came to UBC hoping to get his foot in the door with both the football and basketball programs.
Kelowna’s Mason Bourcier stamps platinum status on UBC Thunderbirds solid gold recruiting class
VANCOUVER — Mason Bourcier is turning the 2017 recruiting class of the UBC Thunderbirds men’s basketball program into the school’s own version of the NBA’s 1996 draft lottery.