SFU Basketball
Former SFU women’s basketball coach inducted into Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame
March 27, 2025By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer On February 21, 2025, Canada Basketball announced its Hall of Fame Class of 2024, which includes former SFU and team Canada women’s basketball head coach Allison McNeill. McNeill became head coach for SFU’s women’s team in 1988 and helped lead the team to 11 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) championship tournament appearances. “It feels quite huge, actually, something that you don’t set out for when you start coaching,” McNeill told The Peak. “You do it because you’re passionate about it. But with that said, when they recognize your work, you feel pretty good about…
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SFU women’s basketball coach Bruce Langford reaches historic 500-win mark
March 25, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer The final home and regular game of the season was Senior’s Night for the women’s basketball team against Western Washington in the West Gym. A big one-point win for SFU heading into the postseason was…
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2024 winter team finishes
March 19, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Men’s basketball Record: 4–14 (against conference opponents), 6–23 (overall) Results: out of playoffs After placing ninth out of 10 schools in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) standings, the men’s basketball team did not advance…
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This week at SFU
March 18, 2024By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Away Games Thursday, March 7–Saturday, March 9: women’s basketball at the conference championships Entering the tournament as the fifth seed Lost last season in the opening round to Central Washington, 88–62 Friday, March 8: softball…
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SFU’s sports archive
March 18, 2024By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Men’s basketball SFU took on UBC for the first time in any sport at West Gym on November 26, 1965, winning 61–51 in front of 2,200 fans. Coach John Kootnekoff made the inaugural 1965 team…
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This week at SFU
February 12, 2024By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Home Games Thursday, February 8: men’s basketball vs. Montana State Billings at West Gym at 7:00 p.m. Lost earlier in the season 73–61 against Montana State Friday, February 9: conference hockey team vs. UVIC at…
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This week at SFU
February 1, 2024By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Home Games Thursday, January 25: women’s basketball vs. Montana State Billings at West Gym at 7:00 p.m. Montana State is first in the conference standings; SFU is eighth 1–1 against Montana State last season Saturday,…
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This week at SFU
January 31, 2024By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Home Games Thursday, February 1: women’s basketball vs. Alaska Anchorage at West Gym at 7:00 p.m. At the time of writing, senior Jessica Wisotzki leads SFU in scoring with 352 points (30.8 points per game)…
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Winter 2024 sports power rankings
January 10, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer 1 – Women’s wrestling Record: 6–1 Trajectory: national champions; top-three finish The women’s team has started their season in the driver’s seat, breezing by competition with a handful of heavy-handed victories. Among their six wins,…
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This week at SFU
January 7, 2024By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Home Games Thursday, January 11: women’s basketball vs. Northwest Nazarene (Idaho) at West Gym at 7:00 p.m. Won both games against Northwest Nazarene last season. Northwest Nazarene has the best field goal and three-point shooting…
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