LANGLEY — Surrey’s Panorama Ridge Thunder, a runaway 7-1-0 atop the South Fraser zone’s South Division standings, will retain its No. 1 record heading into the B.C. senior boys AAA post-season sweepstakes.The Thunder wrapped up league play Tuesday with a 4-1 win over Tamanawis.In the South Division, the top five finishers (in order) were Panorama […]
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Varsity Letter’s B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide 10.24.19 edition: Top 5 games, schedules, rankings, scoreboards
LANGLEY — The weekend means it’s time for football, so to better navigate all of the gridiron traffic, here’s another edition Varsity Letter’s B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide.The five best games, the complete schedules by tier and conference, last week’s scoreboard, and another look at our Big 5 rankings!VARSITY LETTERS TOP 5 GAMES […]
Terrel Jones: He’s Lord Tweedsmuir’s old-school Football Jones! Panthers’ senior pivot epitomizes the complete team player
SURREY — It’s hard not to speak in superlatives when you’re talking about one of the most complete football players in Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers’ football history.
B.C. Girls Volleyball Rankings 10.24.19: KSS Owls rule the roost, Byng and Handsworth in Battle Royal, LFA and MEI a pair of new No. 1’s
LANGLEY — For the first time this season, half of B.C.’s four senior varsity tiers have new No. 1’s!Here are the latest B.C. senior girls Top 10 volleyball rankings:At Quad-A, the host KSS Owls claimed first place at their own Best of the West and retained their top spot at the province’s highest tier.Immediately beneath […]
B.C. Boys Volleyball Rankings 10.24.19: Richmond’s McRoberts Strikers, Victoria’s St. Andrews Sabres the week’s big climbers
LANGLEY — Here are the latest B.C. senior boys high school volleyball rankings.Note — The B.C. boys volleyball commission will rank AAA and AA as Top 15 and A as Top 12.Here’s a look at all three tiers:TRIPLE A1 Earl Marriott Mariners (Surrey) (LW-1)2 Kelowna Owls (2) 3 Claremont Spartans (Victoria) (3)4 Mt. Boucherie Bears (Kelowna) […]
BCSSRU offers teachers free rugby coaching clinics on Pro-D Day: “Why can’t we develop coaches the same way we develop teachers?” asks commish
SURREY — During the summer, as Walter van Halst contemplated some of the best ways to both recognize and enhance the many dedicated teachers who volunteer their time to coach rugby in B.C. secondary schools, he kept asking himself the same fundamental question.“Why can’t we develop coaches the same way we develop teachers?” asked the […]
UBC women’s soccer: On the road and in the shadows, these 2019 Thunderbirds seem built for U Sports’ second season
VANCOUVER — The UBC Thunderbirds have won the second most U Sports titles this century and are one of those programs which annually finds itself in the conversation when the talk turns to who will hoist the Gladys Bean memorial trophy, emblematic of Canadian women’s university soccer supremacy.
Varsity Letters PODCAST 10.23.19: We’re joined by SFU football’s Thomas Ford, W.J. Mouat football’s Andrew Harder & TWU rugby’s Andrew Evans
LANGLEY — Varsity Letters — The Podcast is back from its one-week sabbatical! Thanks for joining us and thanks for your continued loyalty to Canada’s only podcast dedicated solely to the coverage of provincial high school and university sports. Off the top, Simon Fraser Clan head football coach Thomas Ford checks in to chat with […]
Clan ‘creating their own luck’ as preparation, opportunity meet to give SFU volleyball chance to set new program GNAC win streak on ‘Dig Pink’ night
BURNABY — You’ve no doubt heard about the concoction produced from that time-tested recipe, the one where preparation meets opportunity?Simon Fraser head volleyball coach Gina Schmidt isn’t denying the existence of old-fashioned good luck at various points of the five-match win streak her Clan (7-3) carry into the start of a four-game Great Northwest Athletic […]
VL’s Big 5 B.C. High School Football ranks 10.21.19 edition: Undefeated South Delta 2019’s fourth AAA No. 1 team, Vernon still wire-to-wire atop AA
LANGLEY — In a parity-riddled 2019 season, undefeated South Delta becomes the fourth different team to own the No. 1 spot in Varsity Letters’ Big 5 AAA B.C. high school football rankings.The Sun Devils, two wins away from a perfect regular season, host Victoria’s winless Belmont Bulldogs on Saturday.The shuffle takes place, however, after former […]