LANGLEY — Welcome to one of our most anticipated days of the high school sport season.One day before the start of the B.C. senior girls Double-A and Triple-A provincial championship tournaments, the B.C. Secondary School Girls Basketball Association, in conjunction with Varsity Letters, unveils its annual Baden Player of the Year and Top 15 Dream […]
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Walnut Grove’s Tavia Rowell: Coaches, trainers, rivals all applaud B.C.’s Player of the Year repeat winner for her passion and her integrity
LANGLEY — The first girls high school basketball story ever covered under the Varsity Letters masthead? It came on the very first day of our launch (January 31, 2017) and it was all about an amazing Grade 10 basketball player with Langley’s Walnut Grove Gators named Tavia Rowell.
Karan the Magnificent: Burnaby South big-man Aujla lifts 33-0 Rebels into B.C. JV final tonight against Richmond’s upstart McMath Wildcats
LANGLEY —Karan Aujla’s only in the ninth grade, so you have to excuse him for being a little wide-eyed in the face of a reporter’s questions.
McMath’s equation of ‘Team, Team, Team’ adds up to OT win over No. 2 VC Irish, now it’s No. 1 Burnaby South in B.C. JV finals
LANGLEY — There’s a memorable line from the classic high school basketball movie Hoosiers that seemed especially apropos Monday night as a classic of playoff game unfolded at the Langley Events Centre.
A new pride in these Lions! For Vancouver’s Single-A King David, adversity steels the foundation of its growing hoops culture
VANCOUVER — Last March, they were a fourth-quarter away from the first B.C. high school championship Final Four appearance in school history.
Port Moody’s Kardiac Kodiaks! Fourth-quarter flurry lifts Heritage Woods past G.P. Sabres and into B.C. boys Quad-A Sweet 16
LANGLEY — This season, the Heritage Woods Kodiaks have been a senior boys basketball team which has kept everyone guessing, including themselves and their coaching staff.
Holy Cross hoopsters are Crusaders for the the ages! Fraser Valley tourney’ swan song 4A final a blow-out win over No. 1 Terry Fox
LANGLEY — Prior to the start of the 2017-18 B.C. high school basketball season, coaches around this province were near-unanimous in their feeling that Surrey’s Holy Cross Crusaders should start the campaign as the province’s preseason Quad-A No. 1 team.
With win at Alberta, UBC bound for Final 8 national tourney! Victory magnifies key recruitments of stars Jadon Cohee, Manroop Clair
VANCOUVER — Kevin Hanson has had enough post-season disappointment over the last number of years that he wasn’t going to sugar-coat his emotions.
B.C. Junior Boys 2019: Our look at how No. 1 Burnaby South & No. 4 St.Pat’s arrived at Monday’s ‘guards galore’ Final 4 showdown
LANGLEY — How many great guards on the floor is too many? That’s a silly question because the more the merrier, and for fans of uptempo basketball that is going to be the case Monday in one of two semifinals here at the 2019 B.C. junior boys basketball championships.
B.C. Junior Boys 2019: A look at how powerhouse Van College and underdog McMath have arrived at Monday’s Final Four showdown
Who’s on a higher high? That’s the question the No. 2-seeded Vancouver College Fighting Irish and Richmond’s No. 6-seeded R.A. McMath Wildcats have to be asking of each other heading into Monday’s 8 p.m. B.C. junior boys basketball championship semifinal clash here at the Langley Events Centre.