Argyle Pipers' goalkeeper Lucas Robson grimaces while corralling the ball Friday during his team's 3-1 win over PoCo's Riverside Rapids in the semifinal stage of the 2021 B.C. senior boys high school Coastal championship tournament at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys Coastal AAA Final 4: Argyle coach Darren Rath “…had a feeling” his Pipers were special, now comes a title-game berth after 3-1 win over Rapids!

BURNABY — All through the COVID-cancelled 2020 high school boys soccer season, veteran Argyle Pipers head coach Darren Rath carried around this feeling that all his class of rising senior varsity players needed was a season of play to verify just how special he knew them to be.Friday, on the lofty stage of the semifinal […]

Terry Fox point guard Cerys Merton and the Ravens, second in 2019-20, open as Quad-A's team to beat in 2021-22. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls Top 10 preseason basketball rankings: Terry Fox, R.A. McMath, Langley Christian, Credo Christian plus Fleetwood JV’s top the polls ahead of 2021-22 tip-off!

LANGLEY — A cancelled season makes the task of putting together pre-season rankings in any sport especially tough, so our thanks to everyone at the B.C. Secondary Schools Girls Basketball Association for taking a deep dive into all of the rosters to present our 2021-22 B.C. senior and juniors girls basketball Top 10 preseason rankings.Fingers […]

Playing with a relentless fervour, Terry Fox senior middle linebacker Alex Gagnon loses his helmet on a tackle against arch-rival Centennial earlier this month. Gagnon was picked B.C. AAA Defensive MVP for the 2021 season. (Photo by Becky Severy 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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“His love for the game is the most important thing…” says Terry Fox HC Kudaba of Ravens’ middle ‘backer Alex Gagnon, B.C. AAA football’s Defensive POY!

PORT COQUITLAM — B.C. high school football’s AAA Defensive Player of the Year was born to fill a middle linebacker’s cleats.But more than anything, Terry Fox senior Alex Gagnon is just one of those guys who is a football player above and beyond any kind of positional designation you might happen to put beside his […]

Heritage Woods Kodiaks' Andrew Alvarez gives chase to Sean Cyr of the Sentinel Spartans during group play Thursday, Day 1 at the B.C. senior boys Coastal AAA championships at Burnaby Lake Sports Complex. Sentinel won 1-0 as all four teams in Pool A finished play for the day at 1-1. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. boys Coastal AAA soccer Day 1: Riverside, Best, Argyle take big steps forward in group play, but Centaurs, Thunder, Spartans, Kodiaks locked in four-way tie!

BURNABY — The beauty of group play at the 16-team B.C. senior boys AAA high school Coastal soccer championships is that Thursday parity invites a Friday filled with uncertainty.And nowhere was that better exemplified on opening day at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex than in Pool A, one of the tournament’s four four-team groups, each […]

Notre Dame quarterback/defensive end Aiden Domino is B.C. High School Football's AAA Player of the Year for 2021. (Wilson Wong photo 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Notre Dame quarterback Aiden Domino B.C.’s AAA Player of the Year: Here’s all of BCHSF’s 2021 AAA provincial all-stars

LANGLEY — Come Saturday at B.C. Place Stadium, it’s going to be hard to miss Notre Dame Jugglers’ quarterback Aiden Domino, Centennial Centaurs’ running back Ziad Sabry and Terry Fox Ravens’ linebacker Alex Gagnon as they take to the turf under the dome for the Subway Bowl AAA Coastal semifinals.A tip of the helmet is […]

Langley Thunderbirds running back Ryan Goeson is B.C. High School Football's AA Player of the Year for 2021. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Langley Thunderbirds’ running back Ryan Goeson B.C.’s AA Player of the Year: Here’s all of BCHSF’s 2021 AA provincial all-stars

LANGLEY — Congratulations to Langley Thunderbirds’ running back Ryan Goeson, selected the B.C. High School Football Player of the Year.And a tip of the hat to all those players selected to the 2021 B.C. High School AA All-Star team.DOUBLE-APLAYER OF THE YEARMVPRyan Goeson (5-11, 190, RB/LB, Langley Thunderbirds)OFFENSIVE MVPNoah Lank (6-2, 218, RB, Duchess Park […]

Vancouver College's Cole Cruz-Dumont. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys Top 10 preseason basketball rankings: Burnaby South, St. Pat’s, Lambrick Park and Fernie tabbed as the teams to beat in 2021-22!

Ranking day has arrived for B.C. senior boys high school basketball.Although the start of the season has been delayed by a couple of days, we’re right on time with preseason Top 10’s from all four of the province’s tiers.As always, our thanks to everyone involved from pollsters to coaches, for making this day a special […]

B.C. boys and girls high school basketball, originally set to resume on Nov. 29, has now been moved to Dec. 1 by B.C. School Sports. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. boys and girls high school basketball has its tip-off delayed by at least two days following latest BCSS ruling!

LANGLEY — If you’ve got plans to be playing in, coaching, watching or officiating a B.C. high school basketball game over the first two days of the season, you may have to cool your sneakers for a couple of days.B.C. School Sports announced late Wednesday that the start of the winter season of play has […]

The South Delta Sun Devils, top-ranked in the B.C. senior girls Quad-A tier, will be one of somewhere in the neighbourhood of 100 boys and girls senior varsity teams which will now wait a week longer to see if their seven respective B.C. senior varsity championships can go off without a hitch. (Photo by Mark Booth property of the Delta Optimist 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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BCSS moves all seven B.C. high school senior varsity volleyball championships ahead to Dec. 8-11 window for best chance at true provincial tourney fields!

B.C.’s seven boys and girls B.C. senior varsity volleyball championships are still being afforded the chance to maintain their full integrity as province-wide championship tournaments.Yet, due to the massive after-effects of flooding and severely-compromised highway systems, B.C. School Sports announced Wednesday evening that the girls Quad-A, Triple-A, Double-A and Single-A championships, as well as the […]

The Sardis Falcons, on pins and needles awaiting clearance to travel on Highway 7 to the B.C. tourney's Burnaby site from Chilliwack, thank the soccer gods upon their arrival Wednesday afternoon. (Photo property of Falcons Athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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As Sardis Falcons’ team bus reaches Burnaby Lake, 16-team draw for 2021 B.C. senior boys AAA Coastal soccer championships becomes official: Full schedule is here!

Somewhere on Highway 7, on a roundabout from Chilliwack en route to Burnaby, the 16-team draw for the 2021 B.C. senior boys AAA Coastal high school soccer championships was finalized when a school bus carrying the Sardis Falcons was given the green light to its final destination at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex.(See full draw […]