To Sophie Swant, the contrast over a span of a couple of hours Saturday night at the Alaska Airlines Center was incredible.
University Women’s Basketball
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.
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.
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
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.
TWU’s ‘Downtown’ Jessie Brown: A clinical approach to hoops and life
LANGLEY — Jessie Brown is a budding nurse, but she’s already got a doctorate in dialing from distance.
TSUMURA: My three big weekend take-aways
Here are my three big basketball take-away from the recently-completed university sports weekend:
Meg Wilson: The girl who loves to run
BURNABY — In her childhood days in London, Ont., Meg Wilson would always tell her mom that when the day came for her to pick one sport, she would choose running.
UFV Cascades: Why Seniors’ Night is special
Track the daily movements of a basketball program from high school through university and the calendar, like clockwork, moves a team of dedicated, age-specific athletes through a timetable of tradition.