SFU Women's Basketball Team presenting at the Images Theatre

Having recently returned from an athletic and academic trip to China, the SFU women’s basketball team made a traditional Chinese toast before sharing their learning experiences with both domestic and international SFU students in Images Theatre at the Burnaby campus.

“Our women’s basketball team were outstanding athletic, cultural and academic ambassadors for SFU,” said Dr. Ian Andrews, Director of International Programs. “From their presentations, it was clear that through experiential learning the intercultural sharing of knowledge was heightened.”

The basketball players, who incidentally have the highest GPA of all SFU’s athletic teams, gave presentations on their cultural experiences through the perspective of their given academic majors. Presentations ranged from topics such as the pollution in Beijing to the political era of Mao Zedong and from Chinese art and architecture and women’s rights to a comparison of the educational and women’s sports systems in China and Canada. One common theme in the presentations was the message that what they experienced and learned could only have been possible by actually being in China.

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