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The Simon Fraser Clan are the athletic teams that represent Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. SFU's teams formerly played in the United States National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for all sports. In 1997, Simon Fraser sought to join the U.S. NCAA as a Division II school, but was turned down.[1] After this, SFU decided in 2000-01 to partially transfer to Canadian Interuniversity Sport. Before the transfer, SFU did not compete in Canadian football, instead playing American football.
On July 10, 2009 the NCAA approved SFU's bid to join NCAA Division II starting in 2011-12, where SFU intended to compete in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. However, Canada West, the CIS association the SFU teams were scheduled to play in, issued a probation on all SFU teams for the 2010-11 season, leading to speculation that Clan teams would not have conference to play in. Fortunately, GNAC admitted SFU one year earlier than planned as a full conference member in time for the 2010-2011 season.[2]
Varsity teams[]
SFU currently has 17 varsity programs competing in the following sports (affiliations included):[3]
- Basketball, men and women (NCAA II)
- Cross-country, men and women (NCAA II)
- Football, men (NCAA II)
- Golf, men and women (NCAA II)
- Soccer, men and women (NCAA II)
- Softball, women (NCAA II)
- Swimming, men and women (NCAA II)
- Track and field, men and women (NCAA II)
- Volleyball, women (NCAA II)
- Wrestling, men (NCAA II) and women (WCWA)
SFU is the only school to have finished in the top five of the NAIA division of the NACDA Director's Cup, an award given to the top overall college sports program in the United States, in each year since the award was first given to NAIA schools in 1996. The Clan won the NAIA Cup consecutively from 1997 through 2001, and again in 2004. The last win was especially impressive because it occurred after SFU partially transferred to CIS.
Oddly, the SFU Clan holds the NAIA record for most All-Americans and U.S. National Champions (individual).[citation needed]
Football[]
| Simon Fraser Clan | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| |||
| First season | 1965 | ||
| Athletic director | Dr. Milton Richards | ||
| Head coach | Dave Johnson | ||
| Home stadium | Terry Fox Field | ||
| Stadium capacity | temporary bleachers[4] | ||
| Stadium surface | FieldTurf | ||
| Conference | GNAC | ||
| All-time record | – | ||
| Postseason bowl record | 0–1 | ||
| Claimed national titles | 0 | ||
| Conference titles | 1 (2003) | ||
| Current uniform | |||
| Colors | Red and Blue | ||
| Mascot | McFogg the Dog | ||
| Website | athletics.sfu.ca | ||
The Simon Fraser Clan football team has been competing continuously since the athletic department's inception in 1965. The Clan played by American rules while they competed in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics from 1965 to 2001 against other American teams. Along with other SFU teams, the football program transferred to the Canadian Interuniversity Sport and thereby switched to playing Canadian football against Canadian University teams in 2002. While playing in the CIS, SFU won their first and only Hardy Trophy conference championship in 2003 while qualifying for the playoffs twice. After playing eight seasons in the Canada West Conference of the CIS, the Clan football team began competing in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in the NCAA's Division II in 2010.[5]
The team also maintains a cross-town rivalry with the Vancouver-based University of British Columbia Thunderbirds as they are also the only two universities in British Columbia that field football teams. Since 1967, the two teams have competed in the Shrum Bowl, an annual game played at alternating venues with alternating rules. SFU holds a 17-15-1 series lead while also being the most recent champion having won the 2010 game at Thunderbird Stadium. Due to the two schools playing in two different leagues, the scheduling of these games has often been difficult, with no game being played in 2011, the 12th time the game hadn't been played since the game's inception.[6]
Season results[]
| Year | Coach | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | Highest# | Final° | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) (1965–2001) | |||||||||
| Canada West (CIS) (2002–2009) | |||||||||
| 2002 | Chris Beaton | 2–6 | 6th | NR | NR | ||||
| 2003 | Chris Beaton | 5–3 | 2nd | W Canada West semi-final W Hardy Trophy L Uteck Bowl |
8 | 8 | |||
| 2004 | Chris Beaton | 3–5 | 6th | 6 | NR | ||||
| 2005 | Chris Beaton | 0–7–1 | 7th | NR | NR | ||||
| 2006 | Frank Boehres | 0–7–1 | 7th | NR | NR | ||||
| 2007 | Dave Johnson | 0–8 | 7th | NR | NR | ||||
| 2008 | Dave Johnson | 5–3 | 4th | W Canada West semi-final L Hardy Trophy |
7 | 8 | |||
| 2009 | Dave Johnson | 1–6 (*) | 7th | 7 | NR | ||||
| CIS: | 16–47–2 | ||||||||
| Great Northwest (NCAA Division II) (2010–present) | |||||||||
| 2010 | Dave Johnson | 1–9 (0–9 NCAA) | 0–8 | 5th | NR | NR | |||
| 2011 | Dave Johnson | 3–7 | 2–6 | 4th | NR | NR | |||
| 2012 | Dave Johnson | 5–6 | 4–6 | 4th | NR | NR | |||
| NCAA: | 8–21 | 6–19 | |||||||
| Total: | |||||||||
| National championship Conference title Conference division title | |||||||||
| #Highest rank during the course of the season (NR=not ranked). °Final rank. Since 2000, the final rankings were released following the playoffs. | |||||||||
(*) In 2009, two victories were nullified because CWUAA accused SFU for having ineligible players in both games. However, SFU argued that they followed CWUAA's guidelines perfectly and that the player was eligible at the time of the accusation. The Manitoba Bisons also used an ineligible player in a Simon Fraser win, so the game was declared "no contest."
CIS Playoff Results[]
- 2002 Out of Playoffs
- 2003 Defeated Regina Rams in semi-final 53-46
Defeated Alberta Golden Bears in Hardy Cup 28-18
Lost to Saint Mary's Huskies in Uteck Bowl 60-9 - 2004 Out of Playoffs
- 2005 Out of Playoffs
- 2006 Out of Playoffs
- 2007 Out of Playoffs
- 2008 Defeated Saskatchewan Huskies in semi-final 40-30
Lost to Calgary Dinos in Hardy Cup 44-21 - 2009 Out of Playoffs
Simon Fraser in the CFL[]
Simon Fraser University holds the record for the most players selected in the Canadian Football League Draft since 1965, when the athletics program first began. Moreover, SFU holds the record for most first round selections with 32 and most first overall selections with five.[8]
As of the start of the 2012 CFL season, seven former Clan players are on CFL teams' rosters:
- Justin Capicciotti, Edmonton Eskimos
- Luca Congi, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- Aaron Hargreaves, Edmonton Eskimos
- Angus Reid, BC Lions
- Brian Ridgeway, Montreal Alouettes
- Dean Valli, BC Lions
- Spencer Watt, Toronto Argonauts
Women's Basketball[]
Team championships:
- 2010 CIS National Champions
- 2009 CIS National Champions
- 2007 CIS National Champions
- 2005 CIS National Champions
- 2002 CIS National Champions
Men's Soccer[]
A few team highlights:
- 2012 GNAC Champion NCAA Division II Final Four appearance (first non-US school to ever do so)
- 2011 GNAC Champion; Ranked #1 in the NSCAA Coaches' Poll
- 2010 GNAC Champion; NAIA Final Four appearance
- 2007 NAIA Final Four appearance
- 2005 NAIA Region I Finals
- 2004 NAIA Region I Semi-finals
- 2003 NAIA Region I Champion
- 1987 NAIA National Finalists
- 1986 NAIA National Finalists
- 1983 NAIA National Champions
- 1982 NAIA National Champions
- 1980 NAIA National Finalists
- 1976 NAIA National Champions
- 1975 NAIA National Finalists
Women's Soccer[]
Team championships:
- 2000 NAIA National Champions
- 1996 NAIA National Champions
Softball[]
Team championships:
- 2010 NAIA National Champions
- 2005 NAIA National Champions
- 2003 NAIA National Champions
- 1999 NAIA National Champions
Clan TV[]
Clan TV is an online streaming broadcast of most home games for Football, Basketball, and Softball. Over the years the format has changed but it is the main broadcast for Clan fans, and athletes families out of town. [9]
References[]
- ↑ Vancouver Province: UBC expects visit by NCAA 8 November 2005
- ↑ Simon Fraser University to join NCAA next year[dead link]
- ↑ http://athletics.sfu.ca/teams.html
- ↑ "Student Services: Facilities & Locations". Simon Fraser University. http://students.sfu.ca/recreation/facility/index.html#fox. Retrieved 2009-07-25.
- ↑ Simon Fraser University (2009-07-10). "SFU first Canadian school in NCAA". Simon Fraser University. http://www.sfu.ca/archive-pamr/media_releases/media_releases_archives/media_07100901.html. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
- ↑ Josh Curran (2011-08-30). "Shrum Bowl called off for 2011 season". The Ubyssey. http://ubyssey.ca/sports/shrum-bowl-called-off-for-2011/. Retrieved 2012-01-22.
- ↑ "SFU Clan football Year by Year Record". http://athletics.sfu.ca/teams/football/yby/. Retrieved 2012-12-14.
- ↑ 2011 Canadian Draft Guide
- ↑ "Simon Fraser Clan". http://www.educationcdn.com/schools/clan/. Retrieved 2012-12-14.
External links[]
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