Nicolas Hauka is back with Week 9 reports this weekend. (Photo courtesy Nicolas Hauka 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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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 

UBC's Isaiah Knight was unstoppable once again during the Thunderbirds' 21-5 win over the Calgary Dinos as the rains fell hard Friday, October 19, 2024 at Thunderbird Stadium. (Photo by Bob Frid property of UBC Athletics 2024. (All Rights Reserved)
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On a night the heavens open up, UBC’s back-to-basics excellence tops Calgary as part of a ‘perfect storm’ at Thunderbird Stadium!

VANCOUVER — If you were to make yet another argument for football as sport’s ultimate game of survival, then UBC’s Friday night victory against the visiting Calgary Dinos was — both literally and figuratively— its perfect storm.Against the backdrop of a night sky, the lights at Thunderbird Stadium provided the perfect level of illumination from […]

Here's some vintage photography from the Varsity Letters BC high school football Time Machine. Welcome back to your link for the Red Zone Report. (Photo by Blair Shier photography 2018. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Seaquam's Mackenzie Henderson is one of a massive number of returning players for the Seahawks, who last season won both the TBI and B.C. Quad-A titles at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Girls 2024: Top to bottom, our Super 16 and Select 16 brackets combine to give the Tsumura Basketball Invitational its strongest overall field ever! The best of 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A in one place! Full draws are right here!

LANGLEY — The senior boys draws for the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational was released Wednesday (Oct. 16).Today, it’s time for the release of the girls TBI draws for both the Super 16 and Select 16 events, each set to begin a four-day run Dec. 11 at the Langley Events Centre.This year, we asked for input […]

Terry Fox's Jayson Imani and the rest of Port Coquitlam's Ravens bring a young core to the fore this season under veteran head coach Rich Chambers in the Super 16 draw at the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational Dec. 4-7 at the LEC. No. 10-seeded Fox faces No. 7 Kelowna in its opening-round clash. (Photo by Garrett James property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Boys 2024: Who’s playing who in both 16-team draws at Tsumura Basketball Invitational? We’ve got the full draws right here for the LEC’s preseason spectacular!

LANGLEY — It’s time to start the official countdown to the tip-off at the 2024 boys and girls Tsumura Basketball Invitationals, once again set to run front and centre over the first two weeks of December at the Langley Events Centre.Today, we will present the draws for the boys TBI (Dec. 4-7) which includes both […]

Nicolas Hauka is back with Week 6 reports this weekend. (Photo courtesy Nicolas Hauka 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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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!

With teammate Will Hunter (left) helping open a running lane, UBC's do-it-all three-phase wonder Jason Soriano peels off a 26-yard punt return in Friday's 35-25 win over the host Alberta Golden Bears in Edmonton. (Photo by Adrien Bazinet courtesy U of Alberta athletics 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Despite gruelling stretch of road games, UBC football pushes win streak to four straight as Birds’ QB Rooker finds receivers McBean, Webb, Kapler and Hladik on highlight-reel gainers!

You might say that there is a penance to be served when a football team receives the first two games of its eight-game season-long schedule at home, then proceeds to lose them both, and by an average of almost 20 points per game.That’s what the UBC Thunderbirds did, way back in the early days of […]

Welcome to Week 5 of the BC high school football season. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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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!  

As tight end Brad Hladik blocks up front, UBC running back Isaiah Knight reads the holes en route to a career-high 235-yard outing in the Thunderbirds' 32-30 win over the host Calgary Dinos at McMahon Stadium, Sept. 28. 2024. (Photo by Chris Lindsey property of Jayden Images 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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UBC rushing attack brings balance to a three-game win streak, ‘Birds top Dinos 32-30 in Calgary as RB Isaiah Knight dashes for 235 yards and sixth place on blue-and-gold’s all-time rushing list!

VANCOUVER — If they ever decide to take names for a Mt. Rushmore of UBC Thunderbirds running backs, Isaiah Knight seems a lock to have his face chiseled in rock.The fourth-year Ottawa native put on the performance of his career Saturday at McMahon Stadium, rushing for a career-high 235 yards in helping the ‘Birds (3-2) […]

UBC's Will Hunter (left) and Jerrell Cummings come together to sandwich a Huskies player during 2024 Canada West home game against Saskatchewan Sept. 20, 2024 at Thunderbird Stadium. (Photo by Bob Frid property of UBC athletics 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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UBC linebacker William Hunter caps 11th-hour starting nod with a fourth-quarter defensive clinic to earn Canada West Defensive POW honours!

VANCOUVER — The pre-game buzz last Friday in the hour or so leading up to kick-off at Thunderbird Stadium?How about the fact that UBC’s game-changing fifth-year senior outside linebacker Jaxon Ciraolo-Brown wound up as an 11th-hour scratch due to injury and had thus  been shelved for the team’s Homecoming Game against the Saskatchewan Huskies, one […]