ABBOTSFORD — There is an old saying which tells us that success can be measured by the height of one’s bounce after hitting the bottom. By those metrics, it would have been easy to doom Fraser Valley Cascades senior forward Shayna Litman for a university basketball career defined by its mediocrity.
University Women’s Basketball
Clan’s Sweet 16 hoops roster opens, gives Class of ’17 recruits faster NCAA futures
BURNABY — The Simon Clan women’s basketball team, which honoured just a pair of graduating players on its Seniors Night in late February, is going to be a lot younger team than originally anticipated this coming season.
Windsor’s Madison Legault: Tall tales and facts on a rough-and-tumble road to UBC
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.
Quarter-century later, coach Beauchamp leads Douglas Royals back to CCAA nationals
NEW WESTMINSTER — Steve Beauchamp has been coaching basketball for so long now and made it such an ingrained part of his life that sooner or later, he was going to run into a season like this one.With the symbolism as rife as the crackling pages a family scrapbook, Beauchamp has not only returned to […]
SFU basketball: Weary Clan fall to Lancers, terrific season comes to an end in Sweet 16
There’s a song whose lyrics are all about being anchored down in Anchorage, Alaska, and on Monday night, the road-weary Simon Fraser Clan women’s basketball team could certainly relate.
Sweet 16 for SFU! Clan stun No. 1 seed Anchorage in Alaska: “You could here a pin drop…”
To Sophie Swant, the contrast over a span of a couple of hours Saturday night at the Alaska Airlines Center was incredible.
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.