VANCOUVER — Over the four seasons in which they have turned home games on the Point Grey campus into appointment viewing, the UBC Thunderbirds football team’s national success has introduced a wave of star players to the growing fan base of the blue-and-gold.
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FINAL EDITION! 10.19.18 Friday Night Lights edition: Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Report
LANGLEY — Welcome to the Saturday morning updated version of the Friday Night Lights edition of Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Report. We’ve added late reports from Vancouver College vs. Lynden (Wash.) and Westsyde vs Salmon Arm.Looks for our Saturday edition later today with all the results from today. A full schedule of today’s game […]
Juggler’s ‘Neon’ Teon lights up Notre Dame ground game, his 322 rushing yards net VL’s Player of the Week honours
LANGLEY — Once again, here’s our best effort to turn subjectivity into a science. Ahh, it’s pretty tough to do. Still, when you break 300 yards rushing in the AAA ranks it’s pretty tough to not get the nod.
Encore, encore! Argyle’s volleyball expansion whirlwind was no fluke, AAA No. 12-ranked Pipers play host to weekend invitational
NORTH VANCOUVER — You can’t blame Shon Sim for delighting in the recognition his Argyle Pipers senior boys volleyball team has received since their comet-like arrival on the provincial scene last season.
Mission earns its football wings, rush-heavy Roadrunners pay homage in adopting John Barsby’s double-wing offence
MISSION — Wrong offence, bad result. Right offence, good result. The Mission Roadrunners are true believers in that simplest of formulas this season, their third at the Triple-A tier, and one in which they have finally begun to show the signs of forward progress.
10.18.18 edition B.C. high school football Weekend Survival Guide: Big 5 rankings, Top 5 Games to Watch plus full schedule
LANGLEY — Welcome to Week 7 of B.C. high school football’s nine-week regular season. You do the math! We’re getting down to the nitty-gritty with terrific conference matchups gaining in importance each week. Varsity Letters’ Weekend Survival Guide is once again up to the task. We’ve got a fresh new set of Big 5 rankings for both […]
10.17.18 B.C. girls volleyball rankings: Byng, Kelowna fast-risers in Quad-A, Crofton House new No. 1 in Triple-A
LANGLEY — Oak Bay, Lord Byng and Kelowna all made significant climbs within the top four of the B.C. senior girls Quad A volleyball rankings.Kelowna moved up three spots to No. 4 after advancing all the way to the championship final of its own Best of West invitational which wrapped up Saturday, losing in the […]
TWU’s Avery Heppell: After aborted career in modelling industry, Spartans’ star middle has message that matters for young women
LANGLEY — Avery Heppell loves being the model middle.
Deanna Tuchscherer: After searching far and wide, GWG’s star senior will play for dad Al and her hometown Fraser Valley Cascades
ABBOTSFORD — Deanna Tuchscherer has always trusted her basketball skills.But it took a summer spent away from home, in the company of some of the nation’s best young talent, for the rising 6-foot-1 senior guard/forward to realize that it was also okay to trust her inner basketball voice.What it kept telling her, and what she […]
Top 10 Tuesday 10.16.18 edition: All three tiers of B.C. boys volleyball Top 10s include a new AA No. 1
LANGLEY — Kelowna’s Best of the West Invitational did it best to effect change at both the AAA and AA tiers this past weekend.At AAA, Cranbrook’s Mt. Baker got its first extended crack at B.C’s best and the Wild parlayed their fine play into a rise from honourable mention status to No. 6.As well the […]