VANCOUVER — Start with his agility, length and power.Then consider that it all comes within a 6-foot-7, 195-pound frame.Those who have seen forward/guard Frank Linder grow into his position as one of the top seniors in B.C. high school basketball over the past few seasons with Nanaimo’s Dover Bay Dolphins know all too well that […]
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01.15.25: B.C. senior boys basketball rankings: Spectrum, St. Pat’s sitting on the pole! Could RCMP, Catholics, Snowball shake it up?
LANGLEY — Only one change atop the four tiers of B.C. boys high school basketball this week, as St. Patricks flip-flops with St. Thomas More at the peak of the Triple-A rankings following the final of the Rich Goutlet Chancellor final Saturday in Burnaby,.Spectrum staved off the same scenario atop 4A, topping No. 3 Oak […]
B.C. senior girls basketball rankings: First Top 10’s of 2025 show Yale, LFA, Lambrick Park and Mulgrave making the biggest climbs! Seaquam, MEI, SMUS maintain their No. 1 holds!
LANGLEY — The first B.C. senior girls basketball rankings of 2025 for 4A, 3A and 2A.QUAD-A1 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (LW-1)2 Brookswood Bobcats (Langley) (EV) (2)3 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (3)4 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (4)5 Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers (Surrey) (SF) (5)6 Yale Lions (Abbotsford) (EV) (10)7 Oak Bay Breakers (Victoria) (VI) (HM)8 […]
Chancellor 2025: Capacity crowds at St. Thomas More induce a 1980’s flashback for your author! We dissect champion St. Pat’s, runner-up Knights boffo No. 1 v. No. 2 title clash!
BURNABY — One thing I’ve noticed happening a lot more with age, are the number of times I get high school basketball flashbacks while attending games in the here-and-now of this 2024-25 season.So before we get to the guts of this story, which is centred around the incredible show that both the No. 1-ranked St. […]
01.13.25 edition: Whose star is rising fastest in BC SRS Top 50? Notre Dame, Grandview Hts, Mt. Boo!
LANGLEY — Response has been very positive since Varsity Letters began running the B.C. SRS Top 50 senior boys basketball rankings a number of weeks back.If there has been a general concensus from our readers, it has centred around two points.One, you have appreciated the fact that a vehicle now exists which puts all four […]
A Sunday Read: Guess why No. 1 Spectrum’s win over No. 3 Oak Bay in Terry Fox Legal Beagle final is the defending B.C. 4A champ Thunder’s biggest win of the season!
By HOWARD TSUMURA (VarsityLetters.ca)SPECTRUM 70 OAK BAY 62PORT COQUITLAM — Saturday night’s Legal Beagle championship final victory by the Spectrum Thunder is the Victoria team’s biggest win since it cut down the nets last March at the Langley Events Centre as the kings of B.C. Quad-A hoops.It may seem a heady statement, yet on the […]
Terry Fox Legal Beagle 2025: No. 1 Spectrum faces No. 3 Oak Bay as Victoria duo sweep Final 4 Friday!
PORT COQUITLAM — Victoria’s finest — the Quad-A No. 1 Spectrum Thunder and No. 3 Oak Bays Bays — will be an island unto themselves Saturday night when the championship game of the 2025 Jonathon Taylor Terry Fox Legal Beagle tips off at 7 p.m.The Vancouver Island rivals each played their best basketball in the […]
SFU men’s basketball: Offence hard to guard, defence locks down MSU-B’s threes as Howard, Coquia and Red Leafs roll to big win against host Jackets in season’s first GNAC win!
(By HOWARD TSUMURA, varsityletters.ca)Luke Howard’s final basket of the night on Thursday did a lot to prove the notion that the Simon Fraser Red Leafs’ two-game home sweep last week at the hands of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference’s two Alaska schools didn’t come in vain.In fact when Howard set a high screen for teammate […]
01.08.25: B.C. senior boys basketball rankings: Quad-A Tammy, Kelowna line up behind Vancouver Island’s Big Three!
LANGLEY — The Vancouver Island threesome remains atop Quad-A as the new year opens in B.C. boys high school basketball.They are joined by Surrey’s Tamanawis Wildcats and the Kelowna Owls within the top five of this week’s latest Top 10.Meanwhile, the top six teams at the Triple-, Double- and Single-A tiers all home court in […]
A Red Leaf’s rising! For Abby’s Luke Howard, seven seasons on the U.S. hoops road leads to a breakthrough homecoming at Simon Fraser as GNAC home slate opens Thursday!
By Howard TsumuraBURNABY — Luke Howard’s climb to reach the summit of his college basketball career has been interminably long, at times undoubtedly lonely and beset with enough re-starts to wobble even the most unflappable of hardcourt warriors.Yet at 7 p.m. on Thursday — seven years, four schools, a global pandemic and a torn ACL […]