LANGLEY — While change was slight this week at the largest tier of B.C. girls high school volleyball, substantial jockeying took place below.A look at all four tiers:*At Quad A, the first nine spots remained unchanged with South Delta swapping spots with fellow Deltans, the Seaquam Seahawks at No. 10.*At Triple A, the Vernon Panthers […]
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B.C. Boys Top 10 Volleyball Rankings: AAA No. 1 Earl Marriott & AA No. 1 MEI each on stage this weekend at 32-team UBC Invitational
LANGLEY — The Earl Marriott Mariners, who open the new B.C. Triple A senior boys campaign as the preseason No. 1 team, would love to see history repeat itself.Last season, Surrey’s Mariners topped the Van Tech Talismen 3-0 in the B.C. AAA final at the Langley Events Centre.A victory this season would not only give […]
Cascades are better with Bryana Buttar in the batter! Rookie a rare ingredient as UFV hunkers for huge weekend homestand vs. UBC, UVic
ABBOTSFORD — With the same clockwork precision she has shown at every key stage of her soccer career, Bryana Buttar has once again arrived ahead of her time.“I definitely feel that my whole youth career has set me up for this,” the Fraser Valley Cascades’ dynamic midfielder remarked Wednesday of the opportunity she has seized […]
Varsity Letters PODCAST visits with Laurier Primeau of UBC track, Ray Moon of Sun Devils football & Tom Lowndes of UFV men’s soccer
Welcome back, loyal listeners, to another episode of Varsity Letters — The Podcast, Canada’s only weekly podcast dedicated solely to the coverage of provincial and university high school sports. This week, our three guests are: *UBC’s Laurier Primeau, the head coach of Thunderbirds’ cross-country, and track and field, reflecting on last spring’s dual national championships, […]
Subway Bowl’s Super Saturday gets star-studded addition! BCSSFA adds high school all-star game for Nov. 30 at BC Place Stadium
LANGLEY — It’s an idea whose time has come, and the timing couldn’t be any better for B.C. high school football to add even more entertainment value to its heralded championship finals weekend.The BCSSFA has confirmed plans to hold a B.C. all-star game as part of its season-ending Subway Bowl Saturday championship menu this coming […]
B.C. boys high school soccer AAA preseason Top 10 rankings: Dr. Charles Best, Argyle tabbed as the teams to beat!
SOCCERSENIOR BOYSTRIPLE APRESEASON1 Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils (Coquitlam)2 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver)3 Panorama Ridge Thunder (Surrey) 4 Burnaby South Rebels5 Vancouver College Fighting Irish6 Reynolds Roadrunners (Victoria)7 Kitsilano Blue Demons (Vancouver)8 St. George’s Saints (Vancouver)9 Centennial Centaurs (Coquitlam)10 Sullivan Heights Stars (Surrey)Honourable mention — Fleetwood Park Dragons (Surrey), Sardis Falcons (Chilliwack), Oak Bay Bays (Victoria), […]
Varsity Letters 09.23.19 B.C. high school football rankings: Tweedy takes over AAA No. 1! Hyacks, Sun Devils complete the top three
LANGLEY — Welcome to Week 4 of the 2019 B.C. high school football season. The coveted No. 1 spot in the Triple A rankings has changed for the first time this season.The latest rankings:TRIPLE A1 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (Surrey) (2-0, 1-0) (2)LW — Def. Terry Fox 27-0.TW — Friday host Kelowna. 2 New Westminster Hyacks (2-1, […]
A Sunday Read: TWU’s Joanna Williams confronts her mental health struggles and says “I think there is something so beautiful about feeling strong”
LANGLEY — She’d never had this feeling before.For the first seven seasons of her competitive running life, Joanna Williams had tried to justify the myriad reasons that she trained and she raced, yet in her deepest place, they had all rung hollow.But this new feeling? What was it? She’d never had this feeling before.Two Saturday mornings […]
VL’s Saturday BCHSF Report: No. 5 South Delta takes down No. 1 Van College, Carson Graham a big Buchanan Bowl victor
Welcome to the Saturday edition of the Varsity Letters’ B.C. High school football report.We’ve got the first major upset of the season, and a decisive result in the annual Buchanan Bowl.Our thanks to Blair Shier for the generosity and excellence of his photographic contributions.TRIPLE AWESTERN CONFERENCENo. 1 VANCOUVER COLLEGE 23 at No. 5 SOUTH DELTA […]
Football growing pains! Two pick-six majors against, two disallowed TDs are Clan’s undoing in home-opening loss to SD Hardrockers
BURNABY — The Simon Fraser Clan may be young, but they are starting to show enough signs of forward progress that head coach Thomas Ford, after the team’s 2019 home opener, refused to use their overall inexperience as a crutch.That was the story as the Clan (0-3) allowed the offence of the visiting South Dakota […]