track and field

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Meet the Clan: Lindsey Butterworth

EIC March 9, 2015

[caption id="attachment_990" align="alignnone" width="2400"] Though Lindsey Butterworth was initially unimpressed with SFU, she came around and has had tremendous success on the Clan track and field team. Image Credit: Hamed Yaghoubi Shahir /The Peak[/caption] Track and field requires confidence, determination, and athletic ability — and unlike sports such as basketball or hockey, it is an individual sport. Competitors succeed or fail based on their own merit. Lindsey Butterworth, the star of SFU’s track and field team, counts this as one of the reasons she fell in love with the sport. “I enjoy[ed] the individual level about it,” she says. “It’s…

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Clan track and field team deliver best-ever indoor performance

EIC March 2, 2015

[caption id="attachment_793" align="alignnone" width="980"] Image courtesy of SFU Athletics[/caption] It was a busy couple of days for the men and women of SFU’s track and field team during the Indoor Championships, February 21–22 in Nampa, ID. The weekend produced a…

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Track teams looking for individual championships

EIC January 26, 2015

Last year, only one SFU athlete qualified for the indoor track and field national championship — senior Sarah Sawatzky, who is not eligible this year. So when head coach Brit Townsend stated after one event that the team should have…

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Meet the Clan: Brit Townsend

EIC January 12, 2015

“Everything has changed here over the years,” cross country and track head coach Brit Townsend reflects on her time at SFU. “The facilities have changed. I would even say the students have changed, the type of students.” Townsend has had…

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Meet the Clan: Oliver Jorgensen

EIC October 20, 2014

Rookie seasons can be tough for athletes. Not only do they have to prove themselves to their coaches, but often they lack the experience and size of the veterans that they play amongst and face. In some sports, freshmen are…

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