track and field
Red Leafs track and field star Marie-Éloïse Leclair on her Olympic experiences
October 17, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Some of us take the summer semester off, preferring to work or go on vacation. Others take classes to fill the time, sweating the whole way to campus. If you’re Marie-Éloïse Leclair, you go to the Olympic Summer Games. The Red Leafs track and field star experienced her first Olympiad as part of Team Canada’s women’s 4x100m relay team, competing at the Stade de France in Paris. “It was the first time I went to a competition with other sports because I’ve only been in big track events, not multi sports,” Leclair said in an…
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Indigenous athletes of past and present
October 2, 2024By: Kaja Antic, Sports Writer Ethan Bear — Hockey In 2020, Bear became the first NHL player to wear a jersey with Cree syllabics on the nameplate. Bear, who is from the Ochapowace Nation in Kisiskâciwan (Saskatchewan), was playing for…
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Sports quiz: Bizarre occurrences
March 21, 2023By: Simran Sarai, Sports Writer Q1.) True or false: At one point in his career, legendary track and field athlete Jesse Owens broke three world records in under an hour. Answer: True. Owens set world records in long jump, the…
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The Sports Peakbox: cross country and track and field
January 20, 2022By: Isabella Urbani, Sports Editor Welcome to The PeakBox. I am your host, Isabella Urbani. Each week The Peak will answer student submitted questions about sports at SFU. This week, we asked students to pose questions about cross country and…
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The Week Ahead in SFU Sports: February 3–9
January 31, 2020By: Dylan Webb, Sports Editor A busy Spring semester of SFU Sports action intensifies this week with both basketball and wrestling teams, the track team, and the hockey team active. For fans looking to take in some Clan athletics in…
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Holly Taylor explains track throwing sports and talks ‘balance’
February 13, 2018By: Victoria Lopatka Name: Holly Taylor Year: Freshman (first-year) Hometown: Brantford, Ontario Major: Criminology Sport(s) you play at SFU: Track and field (shot put, hammer throw, weight throw, discus) GPA: 3.3 Part A (Miscellaneous) The Peak: What’s your…
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Clan enjoy their second successful meet of the track and field season
January 28, 2018By: Mateo De Dalmases The SFU track and field team travelled to Seattle for the second meet of the 2018 indoor season, and enjoyed a great weekend. Competing in a huge range of events, there was a number of SFU…
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Simon Fraser track and field beat UBC 117–115 in dual meet
March 31, 2017The Simon Fraser track and field team won an exciting event against UBC this past weekend, with the meet coming down to the last event. It was a great victory for the Clan as they battled through adversity to pull…
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Clan track and field team impresses at NCAA Division II Championship
March 17, 2017Simon Fraser enjoyed a successful weekend at the NCAA Division II Championship in Birmingham, Alabama over this past weekend. They left the competition with a total of four all-American honours from Addy Townsend and Vladislav Tsygankov, with Paige Nock and…
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SFU impresses at the UW Indoor Preview
January 17, 2017It was a great start to the indoor season for SFU’s track and field team. After a winter that saw them unable to train on the track due to snow, the Clan was able to deliver some convincing performances at…
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