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Few gave the Burnaby Braves bantam baseball team much of a chance in their first-ever AAA season. But head coach Jason Smith was not one of them.

Competing in high winds, the Simon Fraser University track and field team met several Great Northwest Athletic Conference and one NCAA qualifying standard at the Ken Shannon Invitational meet hosted by the University of Washington Huskies last Saturd

Simon Fraser University head football coach Dave Johnson announced the hiring of Nick Lucey as the program's new offensive coordinator.

The Simon Fraser University men's soccer program signed Chris Merriman this week. Merriman, a 5-10 defender played last year with Vancouver Island University, where he won a Canadian Collegiate Athletics Association Championship in 2010.

The Burnaby Canadians will take on Gorge FC from Vancouver Island in the final of the provincial women's B Cup final next week. Burnaby edged the Richmond Selects 3-2 in the B Cup semifinals at Cariboo Oval last weekend.

It takes an individual with unique talents to row competitively. A person needs to be strong, tall and athletic in order to race along the water in the narrow row boats.

The Burnaby Winter Club put three players from its Tier 1 bantam A1 hockey team into the first round of the Western Hockey League bantam draft on Thursday.

The Burnaby Winter Club and Burnaby Central Secondary School are joining forces to form a midget hockey academy that will compete in the Canadian Sports School Hockey League this fall.