Basketball - W | 2/15/2023 11:00:00 AM
BURNABY, B.C. – As her Senior Night approaches, Simon Fraser women's basketball player
Sophie Klassen has earned another accolade.
The 6-foot forward from Chilliwack, B.C., has made the 2022-23 Great Northwest Athletic Conference Women's Basketball All-Academic Team, presented by Barnes and Noble College. It is the fourth year in a row Klassen has achieved this feat.
Klassen is working towards a Kinesiology degree and holds a cumulative grade point average of 3.82 on a 4.33 scale.
She is currently 13th in the GNAC with an average of 0.7 blocks per game. As a team, SFU ranks second in the league and 14th in all of NCAA Division II in blocks per game. Klassen, a graduate of Sardis Secondary School, is 31st in the conference in rebounds per contest (4.1), and is averaging 4.2 points a game.
She will play her final home games as a member of the Red Leafs this week, alongside fellow seniors
Emma Kramer (Surrey, B.C.) and
Georgia Swant (North Vancouver, B.C.). They will face Seattle Pacific Thursday at 7 p.m., before being honoured on Senior Night Saturday against Montana State Billings at 7 p.m. Both games will take place at the West Gym.
Tickets to this week's games can be purchased online via the following links:
Feb. 16 (Black History Month game):
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sfu-womens-basketball-vs-seattle-pacific-university-tickets-451199007377
Feb. 18 (Senior Night):
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sfu-womens-basketball-vs-montana-state-university-billings-tickets-451200612177
To qualify for the GNAC All-Academic Teams nominees must be of sophomore eligibility or greater, have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.20 or greater on a 4.00 scale, be on the team roster for the full season and must be in their second year at the nominating institution.
For the latest information on SFU Athletics, visit
athletics.sfu.ca. You can also find us on social media at @SFU_Athletics.
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