LANGLEY — Welcome to Nov. 5 Friday Night Lights edition of Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Report.Please keep checking back on this posting over the course of the evening for breaking game reports from contests being played all over the province.AAA WESTNo. 3 MT. DOUGLAS 35 at ST. THOMAS MORE 6BURNABY — Any better […]
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Ted Cusick (1942-2021): B.C. boys basketball loses a coach for the ages, but impact of The Cuz, in the hearts of five decades of his former players, will never be forgotten!
VANCOUVER — When he arrived on the first day of classes at Point Grey Secondary School, in September of 1973, he was a well-traveled first-year student-teacher with a fashion sense for the times.Fu Manchu moustache. Huge sideburns. Flared pants. Platform shoes.It was a look that made Ted Cusick so instantly relatable to the students he […]
BCHSF Player of the Week: Mount Douglas senior quarterback Hunter Swift brings leadership and perspective to the Rams’ huddle!
Chat it up with Mt. Douglas’ Hunter Swift — selected as one of Varsity Letter’s two B.C. High School Football Players of the Week — and you almost forget that the Rams’ quarterback, at age 17, is still just two months into his senior year of high school.As him about his performance in last week […]
BC Boys High School Volleyball rankings 11.02.21 edition: South Fraser 4A powers Elgin, Fraser Heights, SLSS and McMath hold ground!
VICTORIA —The Quad-A South Fraser Zone held its ground, keeping four teams in the B.C. top 10 this week.While the championship final is slated for Kelowna, theSouth Fraser zone championships expected to feature No. 2 Elgin Park and No. 4 Fraser Heights of Surrey, and No. 6 Steveston-London and No. 7 R.A. McMath of Richmond, […]
BC Senior Girls Volleyball Top 10 Tuesday! 11.02.21 edition: The rankings have arrived… Red Serge could pit No. 1 Riverside against No. 2 South Delta in UBC rematch!
LANGLEY — Neighbouring programs have flipped for each other in the coveted 10th and final spot in the B.C. senior girls Top 10 AAAA volleyball rankings.As North Delta’s Seaquam Seahawks drop out of the rankings, their spot is taken over by South Surrey’s Earl Marriott Mariners, now holding the distinction of Surrey’s top-ranked girls team […]
SFU Volleyball 2021: With Seniors Night weekend on tap, who knew that Simon Fraser’s ‘X’ factor would be it’s well-hidden group of third-year freshmen!
BURNABY — When the Simon Fraser volleyball team finally de-camped from its endless months of limited practice inside the West Gym and eventually stepped off a plane in California over the first week of September to open its 2021 season, who knew that its X factor would be its inexperience?Huh?“When you have all of these […]
Red Serge Volleyball: As 2021’s re-start season hits its stretch drive, PoCo’s Riverside Rapids let it flow, B.C. Quad-A No. 1 team hosts its annual classic!
PORT COQUITLAM — The Red Serge Invitational is always a huge deal on the B.C. senior girls high school volleyball calendar.Yet this time around, with its return to play following last year’s cancelled season scheduled for this Friday and Saturday, the anticipation is almost palpable at the longtime host school.“Oh man, it’s been two years, […]
B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide 11.01.21 edition: New Big 5 rankings ahead of Archbishops clash, plus Carson-Bateman and Fox-Centennial!
LANGLEY — Welcome to the final full week of B.C. high school regular season football.We have a big one Saturday, of course, as No. 1 Vancouver College visits No. 2 Notre Dame in a clash of undefeated Archbishops Trophy teams.Yet to any program playing what might be its final game of the season, and specifically […]
A SUNDAY READ: In Simon Fraser’s Saturday loss at Western Oregon, we examine the ripple effect of three snaps, no reward and a young team’s search for momentum
It’s impossible to encapsulate all the moments which, when taken as a whole, add up to that most fleeting of sports intangibles: Momentum.The Simon Fraser football team has been attempting to find as much of it as it can with the hope that it will help lead them in the direction of their most elusive […]
Irish blank South Delta behind Roberts’ three-TD day, countdown begins to Archbishops Trophy clash as No. 1 VC set to host No. 2 Jugglers in ‘Battle of Unbeatens!’
VANCOUVER — It took a global pandemic to halt B.C.’s most enduring high school football rivalry series, yet when the annual Archbishops Trophy game kicks off for the 64th time this Saturday, its combatants will not only each be undefeated, they will continue to hold down the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in Varsity […]