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Pre-season tournament includes revenge and disappointment for Men’s Soccer

Arts September 14, 2019

By: Keveren Guillou, SFU student The Clan’s Men’s Soccer team kicked off their 2019 campaign this past week by hosting the Burnaby Showdown, a mini pre-season tournament, that featured three visiting teams from California. This tournament format gave fans a good first look at the opponents the Clan will face this year as they aim to follow up last year’s promising season by claiming their fourth straight GNAC title and finding success in the NCAA national tournament.  Game 1 vs. Cal Poly Pomona Broncos Over 500 fans filled the Terry Fox Field bleachers to cheer on the Clan in the…

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SFU Sports: The week ahead

Arts September 13, 2019

By: Dylan Webb, Sports editor The SFU athletics schedule picks up this week with volleyball and football both playing at home for the first time this season. Here’s a brief round up of all the SFU sports action lined up…

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SFU football aims for second win in five years as 2019 opener looms

Arts September 7, 2019

By: Dylan Webb When it comes to the SFU football team and their recent struggles, it’s hard not to think of Shania Twain. Anytime talk of Clan football crops up, as it inevitably does when you spend enough time in…

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SFU Men’s Soccer looks to secure GNAC title for the second year in a row

Arts September 7, 2019

By: Keveren Guillou The SFU men’s soccer team will be looking to settle some unfinished business this season after their impressive 2018 season came to a shocking end. The team started the season off on a hot streak with 16…

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SFU Volleyball looks to exceed expectations and improve on 2018 fourth place finish

Arts September 3, 2019

By: Dylan Webb - Sports Editor The SFU volleyball team will head to Utah for the Dixie State Classic to kick off their 2019 season this weekend. Head coach Gina Schmidt is confident that her group of mostly veteran players…

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SFU Women’s soccer maintains expectations for success despite transition phase

Arts September 2, 2019

By: Sebastian Barreto The SFU Women’s Soccer team will likely be in for a tough campaign with wholesale changes taking hold throughout the lineup. Head coach Annie Hamel acknowledges that a season of patience and adjustment with a heavily changed…

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Kristie Elliot: The first female player to earn a spot on the SFU football team

Arts August 30, 2019

By: Dylan Webb - Sports Editor A dramatic video of the second day of training camp, uploaded to Twitter by the SFU Football account, provides a glimpse of the swift adjustment that the Clan’s new place kicker, Kristie Elliot, has…

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SFU hosts a discussion about consent and bystander intervention

Peak Web February 4, 2019

Written by: Henry Tran, Coordinating News Editor On January 30, Simon Fraser University’s Sexual Violence Support and Prevention Office (SVSPO), SFU Athletics, and SFU Residence and Housing, hosted a community dialogue about the importance of consent and bystander intervention. The…

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Badass women of SFU

Peak Web March 7, 2018

By Eva Zhu  When SFU opened in 1965, only 37% of the student body was made up of women and only 16 of the 126 faculty staff were women (that’s about 12%). As of fall 2014, 13,000 of the 25,000…

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Fierce Fencers: An interview with two SFU students gunning for a gold

Peak Web June 12, 2016

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n late May, two SFU student athletes earned bronze medals at the 2016 Canadian Fencing Federation’s National Championships in the University Division. If you’ve never heard about SFU’s fencing team before, it’s because we don’t actually have one. In fact,…

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