VANCOUVER — Jasmin Dhanda never knew, in the moment, what was happening. It was five years ago and she was the impressionable UBC rookie, the one just happy to be soaking up the experience of playing alongside senior Janine Frazao, the program’s all-time scoring leader.
Author: Howard Tsumura
Seaquam Seahawks football: On eve of super clash with No. 2 Hyacks, a Q&A with coach Navin Chand
NORTH DELTA — When it comes to high school football in the north end of Delta, they may have started out as the little brother to the North Delta Huskies.
10.05.17: Varsity Letter’s All You Can Eat B.C. high school football rankings, schedules, scoreboards
The VaristyLetters.ca Big 5 B.C. high school football senior varsity rankings in expanded form, plus complete schedules and scoreboards:
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.
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.
10.04.17: Varsity Letters’ Top 10 B.C. High School Football Performances of the Week
It’s time once again time to look at the top performances of the week in the world of B.C. high school football.
Seaquam boys volleyball: How the seeds of a new sport culture came to root
NORTH DELTA — This may sound funny, but North Delta’s ‘newest’ high school turned 40 a few weeks ago.
Tweedsmuir football huddles with student body, Friday buy-out game a cancer fund-raiser
SURREY — In a manner of speaking, the football team from Surrey’s Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary wants to bring the entire school into its huddle on Friday afternoon.
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.