(NOTE — Check back throughout the course of the evening for updates on this story)LANGLEY — For a second straight season, B.C. high school football teams have been denied the opportunity to compete for provincial championships.On the heels of the provincial state of emergency now in effect, B.C. School Sports, the governing body for high […]
Author: Howard Tsumura
Have goal, will travel: Trinity Western’s 26-hour marathon trip to U SPORTS soccer nationals in Nova Scotia mirrors Spartans’ own game-day resiliency along their journey!
Coming off 2020’s cancelled season and into a new one in which the norm has been to expect the unexpected, its perhaps no surprise to learn that despite a cross-country flight filled with folly, that the Canada West women’s soccer champions from Trinity Western University have arrived in Nova Scotia, stirringly unshaken, to battle for […]
B.C. girls high school volleyball rankings 11.17.21 edition: Mt. Boucherie gains elevation, LFA’s Angels new AAA No. 1!
LANGLEY — Here are the weekly B.C. Top 10 rankings for all four tiers from B.C. School Sports:QUAD-A1 South Delta Sun Devils (LW-1)2 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (2)3 Nanaimo District Islanders (3)4 Kelowna Owls (4)5 Mt. Boucherie Bears (Kelowna) (8)6 Handsworth Royals (North Vancouver) (6)7 Claremont Spartans (Victoria) (7)8 Okanagan Mission Huskies (5)9 Dover Bay […]
It’s a boys soccer renaissance at Van Tech! Youthful former grad Smith, 22, and her inspiring Talismen qualify for B.C. AAA tourney!
VANCOUVER — One of the most revealing traits which has surfaced some two-plus months into the B.C. high school sports re-start is just how big a factor student-athlete camaraderie was during the cancelled 2020-21 season.It’s an intangible topic to be sure, but teams which stayed together as much as the health protocols would allow and, […]
Attention B.C. senior girls basketball coaches! We’re looking for one team to complete our 20-team field at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational!
LANGLEY — Greetings B.C. high school senior girls basketball head coaches!We are short one team for our 10th annual Tsumura Basketball Invitational tournament set to run Dec. 15-18 at the home of the B.C. championships: The Langley Events Centre.I have been empowered by the tournament committee of the TBI to accept the names of any […]
Coastal, Northern AA conference all-star teams 2021: Langley’s Goeson, Ballenas’ Agostini, Duchess’ Lank, Nechako’s McKee earn MVP honours!
LANGLEY — We wrap up our celebration of B.C. High School Football All-Stars today by looking at the AA Coastal and Northern conferences.Congratulations to all selected and all the best to those who will suit up for the opening round of Subway Bowl quarterfinals this weekend.COASTAL AAOFFENCEMVPRyan Goeson (5-11, 190, RB/LB, Langley Thunderbirds)OFFENSIVE LINELogan Thiessen […]
Happy 70th birthday, Bruce Langford! The amazing journey of Simon Fraser’s ageless women’s basketball coach!
BURNABY MOUNTAIN — Ask Bruce Langford how many more seasons he is planning on coaching the Simon Fraser women’s basketball team, and instead of providing a direct answer, he quotes his wife Leslie.“When we go out to dinner with couples our age, they all bring up this ‘When is Bruce going to retire?’ stuff,’” Langford […]
Pacific AAA Conference All-Star team 2021: Handsworth safety Noah Brinham and Sardis tackle Travis Richley scoop-and-score MVP hardware!
LANGLEY — We continue with B.C. High School Football Conference All-Star week.Today, we present the AAA Pacific Conference team which spans North Vancouver, Nanaimo, Chilliwack and Surrey.Varsity Letters will also publish today the AAA/AA Hybrid Conference which covers schools in the Thompson-Okanagan region.Tomorrow we will wrap things up with AA’s Coastal and Northern conferences.Last week […]
BCHSF’s AAA/AA Hybrid All-Star Team 2021: Mt. Boucherie’s Wyberg, South Kam’s Fraser, Rutland’s Brydon, Vernon’s Statham all MVP picks!
LANGLEY — We continue with B.C. High School Football Conference All-Star week.Today, we present the AA/AA Hybrid Conference which covers schools in the Thompson-Okanagan region.Varsity Letters will also publish today, the AAA Pacific Conference team which spans North Vancouver, Nanaimo, Chilliwack and Surrey.Tomorrow we will wrap things up with AA’s Coastal and Northern conferences.Last week […]
Boys TBI 2021: Our Dec. 8-11 draw unveils Burnaby South, Kelowna, Yale and Winston Churchill among our headline field at the LEC!
LANGLEY — Hello high school boys basketball fans!We’ve done a lot of waiting since we all last gathered at the home of B.C. high school basketball back in March of 2020.Today, precisely two weeks ahead of the official start of the 2021-22 season, it’s time to celebrate the return of our great game.And with that?From […]