LANGLEY — The Riverside Rapids, coming off a loss to its Port Coquitlam crosstown rivals, the Terry Fox Ravens, in this month’s provincial Quad-A championship final, have been tabbed as the team to beat next season in B.C.’s largest tier next season.
In an early-look pre-season Top 12 produced by the pollsters behind B.C. senior girls basketball, the Rapids are paired with Langley’s No. 2-ranked Walnut Grove Gators at the top of the heap.
Here’s a look at the entire Top 12 as we begin the countdown to next season:
GIRLS
QUAD A
1 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN)
2 Walnut Grove Gators (Langley) (EV)
3 Yale Lions (Abbotsford) (EV)
4 Fleetwood Park Dragons (Surrey) (SF)
5 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF)
6 Abbotsford Panthers (EV)
7 South Delta Sun Devils (SF)
8 Okanagan Mission Huskies (Kelowna) (TOK)
9 Kelowna Owls (OK) (34) (6)
10 Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs (Vancouver) (VSS)
11 Claremont Spartans (Victoria) (VI)
12 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS)
ZONE KEY
Eastern Valley — EV
South Fraser — SF
Kootenays — KOO
North Central — NC
North West — NW
South Fraser — SF
Thompson-Okanagan — TOK
Vancouver Island — VI
Vancouver Sea To Sky — VSS
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