Brookswood head coach Chris Veale and his Bobcats moved up to No. 2 at Triple-A. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls Basketball Rankings 02.14.22 edition: Riverside, Burnaby Central, Langley Christian maintain holds on No. 1, Seaquam takes over top spot at junior!

LANGLEY — Moving into the Top 10 was tough sledding this past.In the latest B.C. senior girls basketball rankings for Tiers Quad, Triple, Double and Single-A, there was some minimal jockeying but no new teams did enough to crack the Top 10.With all that said, Riverside of Port Coquitlam, Burnaby Central and Langley Christian stayed […]

What a memory! Lord Tweedsmuir's Arjun Samra is carried around the court at the Langley Events Centre just prior to being named the 2019 B.C. Quad A tournament MVP. We're looking for some of your fondest as March Madness inches closer. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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March Madness comes to the LEC! Attn: Past players, coaches and media members, too… share your favourite B.C. boys or girls tourney memories with us via video!

Hey Varsity Letters’ readers, here’s a note from all of the dedicated people working behind the scenes at the Langley Events Centre who are determined to make March Madness as special as it deserves to be following last season’s cancelled 2020-21 provincial basketball championship tournaments:LANGLEY — With the Junior Basketball Provincial Invitational Tournaments and the […]

Seaquam's Amar Thiara (left) looks to dish in the face of defensive pressure from Argyle's Nathalie Francis during the Tsumura Basketball Classic in December of 2021. A re-birth in girls basketball at Seaquam has both its senior and junior varsity teams each sitting in the Top 10 rankings as March Madness approaches. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Seaquam revels in a girls basketball renaissance! The Seahawks of Sunshine Hills bring long-lost, late-1980’s vibe back to their North Delta neighbourhood!

NORTH DELTA — When it comes to senior varsity girls basketball, the high school from that North Delta neighbourhood known as Sunshine Hills is finding out how good it feels to find its place in the sun.When rankings were released earlier this week, not only was the Seaquam Seahawks senior girls team ranked at No. […]

The Langley Christian Lightning seem ready to make a third run at the thus-far elusive B.C. senior girls Double A basketball championship title this March at the Langley Events Centre. It's a quest being led by the team's talented trio of seniors (left to right) Taelor Coxford, Sydney Bradshaw and Lainey Shelvey. (Photo graphic by Gabriel Lynn, photos by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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The ‘Strikes Thrice’ magic of the Langley Christian Lightning! In a tier-free girls high school basketball world, might Double-A powers be BC’s No. 1 overall team?

LANGLEY — Imagine a B.C. girls high school basketball world without any tiers of classification.Instead, replace it with a soup pot of sorts in which every team in the province is thrown together to form a chowder-like broth.Bring to a boil.Cover.Simmer.Let the cream rise to the top.And when you lift that cover, who might you […]

After her game-high 31 points on Tuesday, Riverside's Avery Sussex is averaging 23 ppg in two meetings this season against the crosstown rival Terry Fox Ravens. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Riverside stocks its mint from the free-throw line! Quad-A No. 1 Rapids make their trips count in win over crosstown No. 3 Terry Fox Ravens!

LANGLEY — The Riverside Rapids may have forgotten to bring their vaunted three-point shooting game to Tuesday’s second round in the Battle of PoCo.Yet in the end, the Quad-A No. 1 Rapids simply exchanged an icy time from distance for a white-hot one from the charity stripe en route to a decisive 88-60 win over […]

Terry Fox senior point guard Cerys Merton has been there to give her team a helping hand throughout her entire high school basketball career. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: What defines the heart of Terry Fox’s UBC-bound point guard Cerys Merton? “She never turns down a battle!”

PORT COQUITLAM — Cerys Merton was born with a drive that needs no ignition.And these days, as we hit the stretch drive to the B.C. senior girls basketball championships, it’s a most fitting way to describe the energy and the presence that the Terry Fox Ravens’ senior point guard brings each time she sets foot […]

The Abbotsford Traditional Titans continued to hold down a place in the B.C. senior girls Double-A Top 10 rankings this week. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. senior girls Top 10 Double-A basketball rankings 01.19.22: Mulgrave, Notre Dame jump up into Top 5 territory!

LANGLEY — West Vancouver’s Mulgrave Titans have made a move into the top four of the most recent B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball rankings released earlier this week.Langley Christian remains No. 1, while Vancouver’s Notre Dame Jugglers make the big jump up to No. 5 from No. 10.B.C.’s three other tiers did not conduct ranking […]

Brookswood's Jamie Rettig (centre) and Maya Cameron bring defensive pressure to MEI forward Jazmin Avila during TBI 2021 clash on Saturday. The Bobcats' 83-78 win over the Eagles in the 7th place game has helped shape the top two in the latest B.C. AAA rankings. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls High school basketball rankings 12.20.21: Brookswood new AAA No. 1 while LCS, Credo maintain their AA and A strongholds!

LANGLEY — B.C.’s highest ranked teams at the Triple- and Double-A tiers took part in this past week’s Tsumura Basketball Invitational, and their performances are reflected within the first in-season Top 10 rankings released by the pollsters at B.C. girls high school basketball.Here are Top 10s for tiers Triple-, Double- and Single-A. We have also […]

Riverside's Venica Davignon scored a team-high 18 points before fouling out late in the fourth quarter of a game her Rapids won against crosstown rival Terry Fox on Saturday in the TBI final at the LEC. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: A Rapids ascent comes on the heels of red sneakers… Indeed, there’s no place like home as Riverside tops Terry Fox at LEC for Tsumura Basketball 2021 girls title!

LANGLEY — Venica Davignon didn’t have to click the heels of her red basketball slippers together three times and repeat the phrase ‘There’s no place like home’ on Saturday night in order to transport both herself and her Riverside Rapids teammates to their version of hoops utopia.After all, they were already standing on centre court […]

Seaquam's Amar Thiara (11) battles with Abbotsford's Chelsey Dulku during TBI 11th-12th place game Saturday at the LEC. Looking on is Seaquam's Nyssa Sunner. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Tsumura Basketball 2021: Langley Christian, South Delta round out our Top four… here’s how our finishes third through 12 were determined Saturday at the LEC!

LANGLEY — Here’s how teams placing third through 12th fared on their final day of competition Saturday at the 2021 girls Tsumura Basketball Invitational.3RD-4THLANGLEY CHRISTIAN 85 SOUTH DELTA 59LANGLEY — Lightning head coach Danielle Gardner was thrilled with her team’s bronze-medal ways.“I feel fantastic, I mean not having played for a couple of years, it […]