VANCOUVER — The more you play the Saskatchewan Huskies, the more things stay the same.That tweak on a classic cliche was so apropos this week, because when Varsity Letters chatted mid-week with UBC Thunderbirds’ veteran head coach Blake Nill, you could almost feel the need to check your figurative chin strap.Looking ahead to the ‘Birds […]
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Varsity Letters’ BCSSFA Player of the Week: For Centennial Centaurs’ running back Ziad Sabry, there is sweet joy in a comeback two years in the making!
COQUITLAM — When Ziad Sabry runs onto the field at Chilliwack’s Exhibition Stadium this Friday for a tough AAA East clash against the host G.W. Graham Grizzlies, he’ll no doubt smile to himself, so glad that two years ago, he decided to take endure the path less taken.Last week, in fact, almost two full years […]
Varsity Letters’ BCSSFA Player of the Week: For WJ Mouat Hawks’ receiver Ercy Avul, a breakout game comes with hard work, and assists from uncles Bo and Nelson Lokombo!
ABBOTSFORD: Ercy Avul has some pretty amazing football bloodlines, yet ask the W.J. Mouat Hawks’ senior receiver/safety about his uncles Boseko and Nelson Lokombo, and it’s as much or more what they have given him in terms of off-field advice than between the lines.“Nelson had to go through high school always being known as Bo’s […]
B.C. Boys Volleyball Rankings 2021: Kelowna Owls, fresh off UBC Invite title open at AAA No. 1, MEI Eagles and Abby Christian also open the re-start at No. 1
LANGLEY — The B.C. senior boys volleyball season,already underway underway the past three weeks, on Tuesday issued its first set of provincial rankings for the 2021 season, one which will be capped Dec. 1-4 when Kelowna and Okanagan Mission secondary schools play host to the provincial championships.The Kelowna Owls, who open 2021 at No. 1 […]
B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide 09.28.21 edition: At AAA, it’s an Irish-Rams-Jugglers-Ravens-Grizz world, but there’s a new No. 1 at AA, plus complete schedules and scores!
LANGLEY — B.C. high school football’s first month of play is in the books.Welcome to the October, the month ahead which defines the contenders for the Subway Bowl B.C. championships.This week, Varsity Letter’s Weekend Survival Guide lays out the schedule for conference football at both tiers and in all divisions.We’ve got it all here, starting […]
Stars in their eyes! After two years of losing, Sullivan Heights football snaps its 0-for-21 streak with first win in program history!
SURREY — The Sullivan Heights Stars may have been in a state of total elation Saturday afternoon, yet even though it was a sporting rite of passage they as a group had never been able to experience before, they carried it off it the grandest of fashion.After the program’s first-ever varsity victory — 40-0 over […]
Fighting Irish vs. Knights: A traditional rivalry gets gleaming treatment! Fall high school football’s full spectacle comes to O’Hagan Field as 2,500 watch No. 1 Van College blank STM!
VANCOUVER — A three-game season-opening homestand at its own O’Hagan Field couldn’t have felt more like, well… home, sweet home for the defending B.C. AAA champion and No. 1-ranked Vancouver College Fighting Irish.Yet within the guts of a 32-0 win Saturday over one of its true traditional rivals, Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Knights, the Irish […]
A SUNDAY READ: In trying times for Simon Fraser football, an old school linebacker named Griffin Barrett defines legacy through his own actions on Seniors Night!!
BURNABY — He’s survived and thrived through three different coaching regimes with the Simon Fraser Football Team, but on Saturday night, at his home away from home atop Burnaby Mountain, you could say that for the first time, something actually caught up to Griffin Barrett: The pre-game Seniors Night festivities which marked the final home […]
UBC takes one on the chin in season-opening setback in Alberta, yet the freshman QB-to-WR duo of Rooker and Soriano keeps fires of hope burning!
Garrett Rooker and Jason Soriano are going to put up some big numbers over their five seasons together with the UBC Thunderbirds.It’s a fact which was borne out on the turf at the University of Alberta’s Foote Field Turf on Saturday, where the 1-2 freshman punch of the Texas-raised quarterback Rooker and the former Vancouver […]
FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football Report 09.24.21 Friday Night Lights FINAL Edition!
Welcome to the Friday Night Lights Early edition of Varsity Letter’s B.C. High School Football Report.Please continue to check in with us throughout the course of the evening as we update this posting results from around the province.AAA WESTSEAQUAM 0 at No. 4 NOTRE DAME 42BURNABY — For the third consecutive game, the Notre Dame […]