Athletics & Recreation

For nine straight seasons under head coach Bruce Langford, SFU’s women basketball team qualified for the CIS National Championship. The team now plays in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). athletics.sfu.ca/teams/basketball_w/news/web_cwchamps/

Simon Fraser University became just the second school to win both CIS wrestling team titles in the same season. The men’s and women’s wrestling teams now compete in the NCAA. http://athletics.sfu.ca/teams/wrestling_w/news/ten_cisfinals/

Simon Fraser University officially accepted an invitation to become the 10th full-fledged active member of the NCAA’s Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Its teams began competing in the fall of 2010. athletics.sfu.ca/news/nine_sfugnac/

Before joining the NCAA, the SFU Clan athletics program excelled in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS). With more than 50 national championships, countless individual champions, All-Americans, All-Canadians, Rhodes Scholars and Olympians, and an unwavering commitment to excellence, the SFU Clan brand is synonymous with building the consummate student-athlete. http://athletics.sfu.ca/history/

Simon Fraser University is the first non-U.S. member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the world's largest college sports organization. Beginning with the 2011-12 season, after a two-year transition period, all of SFU's Clan varsity teams will compete in the NCAA's Division II in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) in a provisional role. SFU has 15 varsity sport teams involving more than 300 student/athletes. http://athletics.sfu.ca/news/nine_ncaaii/

In 1976, a young guard named Terry Fox impressed SFU’s Clan men’s basketball team. Cancer and the loss of a leg forced Fox to give up his varsity-playing dream. But relentless training on a prosthetic limb led Fox to run the Marathon of Hope. Each year the university holds a Terry Fox Run/Walk, raising thousands of dollars for cancer research.” http://www.sfu.ca/terryfox/about.html

In 2011, the Clan men’s soccer team went undefeated in its NCAA season. It was selected by NCAA coaches as No. 1 among the almost 200 teams in the NCAA’s Division II. http://athletics.sfu.ca/redirects/2010-11/clan-still-ranked-first-in-post-regular-season-poll--gill-added-.html