BURNABY, B.C. – Three Simon Fraser women's basketball players added to their impressive list of achievements Wednesday by earning a place on the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women's Basketball All-Academic Team, presented by Barnes & Noble College.

Claudia Hart, Sophie Klassen, and Kendal Sands are all multiple-time GNAC All-Academic honourees.
 
Sands, a senior guard from Coquitlam, B.C., is being recognized for the fourth-consecutive season. She is a Kinesiology major with a 3.84 grade-point average. Sands is sidelined this year with an injury, but she shot 42 per cent from the field and 41 per cent from three-point range in 2019-20.
 
Senior forward Hart and junior guard/forward Klassen reached All-Academic status for the third year in a row (2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22).
 
Hart, from North Vancouver, holds a 3.38 GPA. The Beedie School of Business student is averaging 8.3 points and 4.2 rebounds per contest this season. She is also second on the team in assists with 43. 

From Chilliwack, B.C., Klassen has a 3.87 GPA and is working on towards her kinesiology degree. She is posting 4.6 points and 5.0 rebounds per outing. Klassen is second on the the SFU roster with 13 blocks. 



To qualify for the GNAC All-Academic Teams, presented by Barnes & Noble College, nominees must be of sophomore eligibility or greater, have a minimum cumulative GPA or 3.20 or greater, be a letterwinner on their team and must be in their second year at the nominating institution.

Thanks to eligibility waivers provided by the NCAA due to the cancellation of the 2020 season, players who continue to hold freshman eligibility but are in their second season of competition at the nominating institution were eligible for selection to the GNAC All-Academic Team.
 
Hart, Klassen, and Sands and the rest of SFU women's basketball team have two road games this week: Thursday at Central Washington and Saturday at Northwest Nazarene (Idaho).

- with files from the Great Northwest Athletic Conference

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