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The 2026-27 season is here! Women’s Soccer, Men’s Soccer and Volleyball season and single game tickets are now on sale. Lock in your access to home games this fall and let’s cheer on the Red Leafs to repeat GNAC championship titles and beyond. Buy now at https://ow.ly/kBlU50ZsoRk

Mark your calendars. ⚽ SFU Men’s Soccer returns to Terry Fox Field this fall. We’ll see you in the stands 🔥

Season and single game tickets go on sale this Friday, July 24 at 10:00 AM at https://ow.ly/S5B650ZrtoZ

The countdown starts now 🏐 Your GNAC Co-Champions return to the West Gym Thursday, September 10 at 7:00 PM. Mark your calendars. 🥇

Season and single game tickets go on sale this Friday, July 24 at 10:00 AM. https://ow.ly/wn8G50ZrtgL

Home game dates are in! 🍁 Catch your back-to-back-to-back GNAC champions at Terry Fox Field this fall. 🏆

Season and single game tickets go on sale this Friday, July 24 at 10:00 AM. https://ow.ly/k7r550Zrtgv

➡️ Daniel Smith embraces a new chapter as Simon Fraser joins U SPORTS

➡️ Daniel Smith prêt à écrire un nouveau chapitre alors que Simon Fraser rejoint les rangs de U SPORTS

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FR: http://fr.usports.ca/x/5r5h4

🏀 The Ball Don’t Stop Pro-Am returns to SFU's West Gym on August 22!

Watch NBA players, G League standouts, overseas pros, elite Canadian talent and top collegiate athletes take the court for Canada's premier summer basketball showcases.

Learn more and lock in your tickets before they're gone here: https://ow.ly/lTIO50Zlh1l

Simon Fraser University Men's Basketball

Ball Don't Stop Pro-Am Returns to SFU West Gym This August - Simon Fraser University Athletics Canada's premier summer basketball showcase brings NBA talent back to Burnaby Mountain.

🏐 Help build SFU's next varsity program.

SFU Athletics & Recreation is hiring a Head Coach, Men's Volleyball to lead the launch of our new men's volleyball program as SFU transitions to Canada West and U SPORTS.

If you're passionate about developing student-athletes, building team culture, and creating something from the ground up, we want to hear from you.

📍 Burnaby
🕒 Full-time, permanent
📅 Apply by July 13, 2026
🔗 https://tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=SIMOFRAS&cws=37&rid=7182

Please welcome our new women’s leadership team.

Former SFU wrestler Nishan Randhawa, a seven-time national champion, will serve as head coach.

He has represented Canada at four senior World Wrestling Championships, three under-23 world tournaments and three junior world meets. He was the 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medalist and bronze medalist at the 2023 Pan American Games. Randhawa also captured bronze at the 2025 Pan American Championships.

He was an assistant coach with SFU Wrestling last season, and a volunteer assistant the one before that.

Accomplished leader Gord Sturrock will be Mentor Coach, SFU Women’s Wrestling. He is a National Coaching Certification Program (NCCP) Master Coach Developer, and instructor of upper-level Sport Science courses at Douglas College.

He has coached on various provincial and national teams and first coached with SFU between 1996 and 2000. Sturrock has been an assistant coach with the Red Leafs since 2021. He was a member of Canada's national wrestling team (1979-1991), winning bronze and silver medals on the world stage as a junior competitor.

He was honoured with a President's Award, which are given to "outstanding volunteers from Sport BC member organizations who go above and beyond in supporting their sport and community," in 2024.

Randhawa and Sturrock will succeed Justin Abdou, who is set to retire after a legendary wrestling and coaching career at .

Read the full story at athletics.sfu.ca

Justin Abdou is retiring after an incredible wrestling and coaching career that lasted nearly four decades.

He was a head coach for for a quarter-century, leading the men’s team between 2001 and 2025 and the women’s squad from 2017 to 2026. Justin was also an assistant coach at SFU for several years while he was wrestling competitively.

He coached SFU to two men’s team titles (2009 and 2010). In 2010, his team won the U SPORTS team championship, while he and three of SFU’s top wrestlers were competing at the nationals at the same time, with one winning an individual title. It was a unique and historic feat in university wrestling as SFU athletes won varsity titles in two different countries on the same weekend.

On the women’s side, Justin’s teams had three second-place finishes on the national stage (2018-20). In 2023, SFU joined four other schools as inaugural women's wrestling members of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC), the first conference to sponsor the sport.

He was a Men’s Coach of the Year four times and an Women’s Coach of the Year in all three years the conference has sponsored the sport. Justin won Men’s Coach of the Year in 2009.

SFU wrestlers won 28 individual national titles during Abdou’s time as head coach.

As a wrestler, he wrestled for Canada in the 2000 Olympic Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, placing 13th in the 85-kg weight class. He thrilled BC fans in 1994 when he won the 82-kg gold medal at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria.

He won nine Wrestling Canada Lutte senior championships, nine age-group Canadian championships, two Canada Games gold medals, 15 international titles and 26 international medals over the course of his career. Abdou also captured the 1990 USA Junior National and 1991 US University Freestyle championships.

Justin won four 177-pound national championships during his university career with from 1989 to 1993.

Thank you, Justin for everything you have done for SFU.

Congratulations to Maddy Paugh on being named to the Academic All-District team in Track & Field! 📚 🍁