A sack artist at work, St. Thomas More's Kaishaun Carter finds his way through the Kelowna Owls last Friday at Burnaby Lake. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Kaishaun Carter: “…I pride myself on my football IQ” says St. Thomas More’s senior blue-chip defensive end

BURNABY — Last month, as the St. Thomas More Knights set off to Mission for what would eventually be a hard-fought 18-6 win over the host Roadrunners, STM head coach Steve De Lazzari sent a text to his defensive coordinator Jared Power about one of the team’s influential seniors.“Coach Power was going to be away […]

St. Thomas More's Rickey Parsons opens his 2019 season Saturday night in Honolulu along with rest of Burnaby's Knights. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Aloha, it’s time for BC High school football! St. Thomas More Knights kick it off Saturday in Honolulu

The B.C. high school football season has never started further from its home base.Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Knights will kick-off the 2019 campaign Saturday (6 p.m.) in Hawaii as they face Honolulu’s Damien Monarchs, a tradition-laden program playing out of the state’s Div. 1 tier.The Knights enter the campaign looking to see which players will […]

St. Thomas More Knights fans' at B.C. Place Stadium paid tribute to late head coach Bernie Kully during last season's run to the Subway Bowl AAA semifinals. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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Bernie Kully: One year after his passing, the inspiring spirit of St. Thomas More football coach lives on in Knights’ players, coaches

BURNABY — This past Sunday marked a year since his passing at the age of 41 to esophageal cancer. Yet even without his daily presence in the classrooms and along the sidelines of the practice field at Burnaby’s St. Thomas More, the spirit of former Knights’ varsity head coach Bernie Kully has endured in ways which […]

The STM Knights defence puts the heat on Notre Dame Jugglers' quarterback Will Clarke last Saturday at B.C. Place Stadium. (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)
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STM vs. Terry Fox: Steele-eyed and ready, just how good has the Knights’ Kully-inspired defence been?

BURNABY — Ask Sam Steele to describe the defence of his St. Thomas More Knights and the response of the Grade 11 tackling machine is akin to taking an arm and wiping all the schematic X’s and O’s off a pre-game chalkboard.

The numbers say that the guys in red from St. Thomas More have been B.C.'s most dominant defence this season. (Photo -- STM athletics)
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Q&A: STM head coach Steve De Lazzari on the power of Panthers, old-school defence and football families

BURNABY — In the wake of the passing of former senior varsity head coach Bernie Kully, the St. Thomas More Knights are coming off one of the most emotional wins in school history, Friday’s a 15-8 win over the defending B.C. Triple A champion and No. 1-ranked Terry Fox Ravens of Port Coquitlam.