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B.C. Boys High School Volleyball rankings 11.18.21 edition: No. 1’s all hold court, big movers are AAA Sa-Hali Sabres, and AA Revelstoke Avalanche!

VICTORIA —Lots of jockeying in the B.C. boys AAA and AA senior volleyball rankings this week, but the rise of Kamloop’s AAA Sa-Hali Sabres from unranked to No. 10 in the span of one week is seismic.AA’s Revelstoke Avalanche moved from No. 15 to No. 9.Single-A remained unchanged.Here’s a look at the latest polls from […]

Point guard to point guard... UBC head coach Kevin Hanson confers with second-year point guard Jack Cruz-Dumont, who on Saturday at SFU follows in the footsteps of his later father John, a former 'Birds great, by playing in the Buchanan Cup crosstown rivalry clash. (Photo by Richard Lam property of UBC athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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UBC’s Jack Cruz-Dumont: As the Buchanan Cup grudge match resumes Saturday at SFU, ‘Birds starting point guard follows his family’s footsteps!

VANCOUVER — Even though it is arguably still one of a handful of the best basketball rivalries in B.C. basketball lore, it also is one which has been played so infrequently as to almost be forgotten by today’s generation of players.Yet something as glorious as the Buchanan Cup, the formerly annual men’s hoop grudge match […]

The Trinity Western Spartans headed into their Canada West bye week with a perfect 4-0 conference record. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Off to a perfect 4-0 start, Trinity Western Spartans women’s hoops reaps rewards of studious work during 2020’s cancelled campaign!

LANGLEY — They are the kinds of numbers which, through the real-life rigours of a cancelled COVID campaign, seem even more distant and faded than they really are.Yet ask Trinity Western women’s head basketball coach Cheryl Jean-Paul about the early signposts she has spotted with her Spartans’ club in the formative stages of the Canada […]

Centennial head coach Dino Geremia chats with his team, including right guard Cam Keeskotagan (52). (Photo by Wilson Wong. All Rights Reserved 2021)
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Where’d they come from? After three straight winless league seasons, Centennial Centaurs loving late-November Subway Bowl football!

COQUITLAM — If there was an award for Most Improved Team in B.C. high school football each season, 2021’s would belong to the Centennial Centaurs.After all, when you’re coming out of the cancelled 2020 season following three straight 0-7 conference campaigns, advancing to the final eight with the chance to play a meaningful football game […]

B.C. high school football will continue with its Subway Bowl playoffs this weekend, yet teams will not compete for provincial titles this season after the flooding within our province made travel to games a big issue. (Wilson Wong photo property of Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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No B.C. champions will be crowned at Subway Bowl 2021! State of emergency means high school football will stage three ‘regional’ championships!

(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 […]

Trinity Western Spartans' fifth-year standout defender Liz Hicks during a Tuesday evening training session at Cape Breton University in Sydney, NS, site of the 2021 U SPORTS Women's Soccer Championships. (Photo by Mark Janzen property of Trinity Western athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

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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 […]

Rushing to congratulate Van Tech goal scorer Razan Rosham (centre, 14) are his Talismen teammates (left to right) Noah McIlveen, Bruce Nguyen, Theodore Cheung and Rupert Postma. (Wilson Wong photo property of Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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, […]

We're looking for one more senior girls basketball team to play in the 10th annual Tsumura Basketball Invitational Dec. 15-18 at the Langley Events Centre. (Wilson Wong photo property of Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Langley Thunderbirds' running back Ryan Goeson has been selected the Coastal Conference's offensive MVP. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]