VANCOUVER — How long had Ercy Avul worked and waited for what was about as glorious a 108-second span a football player can experience?Last Saturday, Saskatchewan receiver and Abbotsford-W.J. Mouat grad Avul, who prior to the current campaign had missed three of his last four seasons, announced himself with two brilliant plays over the final […]
High School Football
Week 9: The B.C. School Sports Red Zone provincial high school football report 11.01.24 edition with Nicolas Hauka!
Week 9 of the B.C. high school football season is now upon us and there is no there place better to keep abreast of the happenings than Nic Hauka’s BCSS Red Zone report.As usual, we remind you to check back throughout the weekend for game updates!Click here for Week 9 game reports
Week 7: The B.C. School Sports Red Zone provincial high school football report 10.18.24 edition with Nicolas Hauka!
Week 7 is here, and it looks like a wet one as players, coaches and officials are set to brave the elements.As far as what happens, you can check back here as a link to Nic Hauka’s BCSS Red Zone report.We always remind you to check back throughout the weekend for game updates, and we […]
Week 6: The B.C. School Sports Red Zone provincial high school football report 10.11.24 edition with Nicolas Hauka!
We’ve hit Week 6 of the season, and like we do here every Friday at Varsity Letters, we’ve got your link to the BC School Sports Red Zone Report with Nicolas Hauka.Click here to read Nic’s game reports, and keep checking back throughout the night!
Week 5: The B.C. School Sports Red Zone provincial high school football report 10.04.24 edition with Nicolas Hauka!
It’s Week 5 of the season, and we do here every Friday, here’s your link to the BC School Sports Red Zone Report with Nicolas Hauka.Click here to read Nic’s game reports, and keep checking back throughout the night!
Week 4: The B.C. School Sports Red Zone provincial high school football report 09.27.24 edition with Nicolas Hauka!
Week 4 of the 2024 B.C. high school football season is here!Once again, VarsityLetters.ca is honoured to introduce to as many readers as possible the work of young journalist Nicolas Hauka.Hope you’ve been able t find Nic’s work through this portal because if you have you can clearly see he has such a great feel […]
UBC 14 Regina 12: Isaiah Knight carries the mail! A re-commitment to running game leads to first win of season as Thunderbirds rally past Regina Rams with fourth-quarter surge!
VANCOUVER — If you had been harbouring the unmistakable feeling over the first two weeks of the 2024 Canada West football season that the UBC Thunderbirds looked more like a team that had fumbled away its core identity, turns out you weren’t mistaken.Whether it was through patience, belief or perhaps good, old-fashioned desperation, the ‘Birds […]
A SUNDAY READ: UBC’s Keijaun Johnson reminds us all of the heart-stopping power of playoff football! Road underdog ‘Birds shock Regina for Hardy Cup title game berth!
Playoff football’s most defining moments have a way of coming out of the shadows and taking our breath away.Yet beyond the most obvious ways in which they dole equal parts joy and despair to their most loyal fans, they also seem to deliver, with barometric precision, a universal truth about their victors.That’s what I was […]
How Terry Fox’s Xyon Fleary became a giant in the Ravens’ backfield, and why he takes Terry Fox HC Tom Kudaba back to blocking for Larry Key on the 1970s BC Lions!
PORT COQUITLAM — In the preseason, the Terry Fox Ravens didn’t look at their compact and largely-untested senior running back as an X-factor kind of player.Yet as PoCo’s Triple-A No. 4-ranked Ravens (3-1) hunker down Friday (7 p.m.) at Coquitlam’s Percy Perry Stadium to host Surrey’s Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (2-2) in the Central Division opener […]
Red Leafs Football Notebook 09.21.22: The return of senior receiver Ethan Beselt, the impact of junior corner Jerrell Cummings, and more as Simon Fraser heads to Texas off CWU loss!
BURNABY — Ethan Beselt had long since stopped counting the days since his last football game.All the unflappable Simon Fraser Red Leafs’ receiver knew was that it had been a long, long time.For the record, it was 1,037 days, which within the window of eligibility for an NCAA student-athlete is indeed nothing short of an […]