Lake Country's George Elliot Coyotes, pictured last Friday at War Memorial Gymnasium, maintained their spot in the top four of the B.C. Double A rankings this week following their performance at the UBC Invitational. (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)
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10.05.17 edition: Huge changes in Top 15 mark Week 2 of senior boys AAA volleyball season

Welcome to the second B.C. senior varsity boys volleyball rankings of the season. The long season will always provide correction and recalibration, but for this week, the Triple A rankings have gone topsy-turvy with two top-five teams falling to honourable mention status and another dropping out of the rankings all together.

Fraser Valley Cascades' sophomore central defender Simi Lehal (left) has a skill set that matches the pulse of her Canada West team. (Dan Kinvig/UFV Athletics)
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Simi Lehal: How UFV’s super sophomore helped the Cascades re-invent their soccer identity

ABBOTSFORD — Soccer DNA may hold no official weight in scientific circles, yet if you’ve watched the play of Fraser Valley Cascades’ central defender and criminology major Simi Lehal the past two seasons, you can’t help but wonder if the beautiful game does indeed have a biology all its own.

UBC's Ben Chow, 25, has reinvented himself both on the court and in the classroom with the Thunderbirds' volleyball team. (Richard Lam/UBC athletics)
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UBC’s Ben Chow: How degrees of difficulty helped the ‘Birds star return for a special finale

VANCOUVER — The best journeys are never scripted and always organic. They test mettle, and in the best instances, wind up revealing a level of poetic gleam only possible through the hard steps of revival and re-invention.

Our final game reports of the week (BCHSF)
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10.01.17: Varsity Letters B.C. High School Football Report Saturday wrap-up edition

It’s our final wrap up of the week’s action with a look at Saturday’s abbreviated schedule. But before we continue with the game reports, our hearts go out to the family and friends of St. Thomas More Collegiate senior varsity coach Bernie Kully who passed away peacefully late Saturday evening.