To Sophie Swant, the contrast over a span of a couple of hours Saturday night at the Alaska Airlines Center was incredible.
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Adam Schriemer: No. 1 TWU’s super-setter beats odds as childhood burn survivor
LANGLEY — On the scariest day of Adam Schriemer’s life, doctors couldn’t guarantee his survival.
Simon Fraser women’s basketball puts on its dancing shoes, Clan makes NCAA D2 field
BURNABY — The Big Dance opened its arms Sunday for the Simon Fraser Clan women’s basketball team.
Jet-lagged no more, UBC middle Li making most of second chance
VANCOUVER — By all accounts, Maggie Li’s first attempt at trying to secure a roster spot on the UBC Thunderbirds volleyball team was like one of those tragic-comic auditions on American Idol.
Ellen Kett: Why the SFU Clan point guard is the GNAC’s MVP
BURNABY — Momentum is such a fragile intangible that once you’ve got it, you’ll do anything to keep it.
Jenna Carpenter-Boesch: Her family ties bond UBC hockey
VANCOUVER — The rink in her home town, which is actually too small to be even called a town, was built from scratch
Simon Fraser Clan 5-foot-11 forward Sophie Swant has a new favourite word. (Ron Hole, SFU athletics)
SFU’s Sophie Swant: Zen and the beat of a basketball heart
BURNABY — Sophie Swant’s basketball heart has always ticked to the beat of a bull in a china shop
Herd the news? UBC can’t sleep on these dangerous Bisons!
VANCOUVER — Watch the game long enough and you know that there are certain types of scenarios, which when presented on larger stages, like the postseason, often times have the potential to produce unexpected results.
Small is big, really big, as Cap Blues’ top PacWest hoops table
NORTH VANCOUVER — In a figurative sense, when addressing the back-court of the Capilano University women’s basketball team, you might say that its made up some very small glasses of water.
Ellen Kett: Clan point guard talks about her record-setting night
BURNABY — One of those nights?When you’re a pass-first point guard with a penchant for getting your teammates involved like Simon Fraser Clan floor general Ellen Kett is, you know all the tell-tale signs.