Burnaby’s Hau-Li Fan was one of an outstanding recruiting class to the University of British Columbia swim team.
The two-time North American Challenge Cup competitor for Canada will race in the 200-metre butterfly, 400m individual medley and the 1,500m freestyle for the defending CIS champion T-Birds.
“Being able to swim with the UBC varsity team is the next level for me to get faster at the sport,” said Fan in a UBC press release.
Going to Grizzlies
Keyvan Mokhtari of Burnaby committed to play in the B.C. Hockey League next season for the Victoria Grizzlies.
The 17-year-old Burnaby Winter Club product played last season on the winter club’s hockey academy prep team, scoring 19 goals and 36 total points in 22 Canadian Sport School Hockey League games.
Going to Church
Burnaby Lakers Robert Church helped the Edmonton Rush take a one-game lead in the best-of-three NLL Champion’s Cup final in Toronto last Saturday.
Church scored three goals and added three assists to lift the Rush to a 15-9 win over the Toronto Rock.
Game 2 of the final series is in Edmonton on Friday, when the Rush look to clinch its first-ever Champion’s Cup.
SFU director resigns
Simon Fraser University’s senior director of athletics and recreation resigned Monday.
Milton Richards stepped down after almost four years leading Clan athletics as the only international university competing in the NCAA.
Richards was instrumental in leading SFU into the NCAA, where they compete in Division II.
Jays Crush the Crush
The Burnaby Blue Jays peewee A baseball team won the Walter Bird Memorial tournament in Port Coquitlam last weekend.
The Jays went a perfect 4-0 at the tourney, including an emphatic 10-0 mercy-rule win over the Chilliwack Crush in the championship final game that went just six innings.
Matthew Chiang, Tony Guo, Matteo Mazzucco, Milan Prasad and Mattias Vaid were all named game MVPs.
“The Blue Jays played really well and showed a lot of character and sportsmanship,” said Burnaby co-coach Margaret Vaid.
