Varsity Letters

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

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 made to a sport she has only formally played for the first time in the last few weeks.  In the video, Elliot, just weeks into her university football career, nails a 30-yard field goal, splitting the uprights with plenty of yardage to spare, thus saving her teammates from a post-practice run.  Though fellow freshman David Eisenkraft was recruited this off-season…

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