A little left, a little right… OK, perfect! UBC’s Mona Berlitz finds her true basketball centre in the presence of team! Her journey from Germany to Vancouver now pointed at run to Final 8 national spoils!
VANCOUVER — When it comes to conversing, German is always going to be her native language.Yet there’s two others that UBC Thunderbirds’ 6-foot third-year forward Mona Berlitz seems to be able to speak with equal fluency.One is the English language and the other is the language of basketball.Put them all together and nothing gets lost […]
B.C. BOYS QUAD-A FINAL: How the simple act of plugging players into a zone offence proved revelatory in Spectrum’s historic title win over Dover Bay! Thunder now Island’s first top-tier repeat champs in 51 years!
BY HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — There was no time to stand still.The season-long battle between No. 1 Spectrum and No. 2 Dover Bay, one which ultimately manifested itself for a fifth and final time as the finale to an incredible 2024-25 B.C. senior boys basketball season, never pretended, for even a second, to be anything […]
The Mighty Wolves of Windsor: After a 1-3 start to the season, a near-peerless three month, 30-game streak carries North Van’s Triple-A ‘unknowns’ to school’s first-ever B.C. senior boys championship hoops title!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — The origin story of the mighty Wolves of Windsor might best be told along the lines of some script in development for the next big supernatural teen drama series.Set amongst the towering Douglas Fir, within a secret den somewhere amongst the vast expanse of North Vancouver’s Lynn Canyon Park, a […]
Wait, you must! The old guy at Varsity Letters needs a day of rest! B.C. Triple- and Double-A boys championship game stories are on the way
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY — Spend a couple of weeks sitting at the press tables of South Court, Centre Court and Arena Bowl at the Langley Events Centre and the idea of returning home to some much-missed creature comforts on a full-time basis is enough to make an old scribe start to yawn, sit down […]
Behind MVP Judah Ashbee, Pac Academy completes BC 2A championship mission! Next up? Breakers hoopsters leave on true mission of mercy
NO. 1 PACIFIC ACADEMY 80 NO. 2 SUMMERLAND 69By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – I’ve written this before, but my good friend Howard Tsumura can write lyrically on this website about any number of ways that basketball can be a metaphor for life and a conduit to bring together diverse groups of teenage […]
