By Gary Ahuja(Special for VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY — The Maple Ridge Ramblers were the big winners, taking home a bevy of team and individual prizes while Cowichan’s Talon Hird joined an exclusive list of past champions.Competing at the 2020 B.C. Secondary School Wrestling Association Championships presented by Onni Group on February 16 and 17 at Langley Events […]
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The Joy of John Oliver’s basketball Jokers: After 27 years, ‘perpetual underdogs’ have their day, punch tickets to B.C. Quad-A championships!
VANCOUVER — Before he can can even begin to express the joy these days that comes from being a John Oliver Joker, Pat Lee offers an apology to the curious reporter at the other end of his cel phone connection.
Who made the Diamond Jubilee Elite 8? Let’s just say the 1970’s looking like a new Golden Age!
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“…Hey, she just pulled a Dirk!” UFV’s fab frosh Tuchscherer making like a U Sports’ Nowitzki
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Tayler Drynan: Simon Fraser’s senior point guard never missed a moment along the road to her Clan home finale
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UBC’s Jessica Hanson: Appreciating the present of presence has allowed ‘Birds senior guard to see 20/20 in 2020
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UFV’s Matt Cooley: How a basketball underdog with a passion for passing delivered his signature senior season
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B.C. girls championships 2020: Rick Mark, a high school hoops lifer, helps get Handsworth Royals back to The Big Dance
NORTH VANCOUVER — Absence makes a basketball coach’s heart grow fonder, and in the case of Rick Mark, you can almost hear that excited pulse the second his voice comes over the telephone wires.“I thought I was getting too old for this, but after 15 years off, here I am again,” laughed Mark, 70, as […]
Varsity Letters temporary home link is here! We’re on the mend and hoping to be 110 per cent really soon!
NORTH DELTA — Loyal readers … our website is unable to take new postings for the immediate future.In the meantime, you can continue to access new Varsity Letters stories by clicking here to reach our temporary home.It doesn’t have the same bells and whistles but we hope you are able to have same level of […]
02.05.20 edition: Varsity Letters BC boys and girls basketball rankings
NORTH DELTA — VarsityLetters.ca is experiencing difficulties as it concerns our ability to post stories to this site.The issues are being dealt with and we ask for your patience over this time.Today, both boys and girls rankings will be added to this posting as they become available. Please continue to check back with us through […]