Brookswood Carly Taylor does her best to affect the three-point shot of Argyle's Sadie Danks during TBI Super 16 Day 3 action 12.13.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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02.11.25 edition: B.C. senior girls basketball rankings: Topsy-turvy tumult hits Quad-A! Top five of largest tier thrown for a loop as Argyle Pipers climb to the top of the heap!

LANGLEY — Everyone wants to peak at the right time, especially with provincials tipping off in two weeks.While the rest of B.C.’s tiers remained relatively static since the last polling period, the Quad-A ranks have undergone some mighty upheaval and as the dust clears, coming off Tessa’s Tournament, North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers are standing tall […]

Zeru Abera (left) of Burnaby's St. Thomas More Knights drives on Dover Bay's Frank Linder in the championship final of the TBI Super 16 invitational Dec. 7 at the Langley Events Centre. Next season the two will be rookie teammates with the UBC Thunderbirds. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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UBC Thunderbirds’ recruit Zeru Abera has been clutch when it counts! Now, the STM Knights senior is embracing the challenge of bringing his intangibles to the Canada West!

VANCOUVER — Ask Kevin Hanson what he finds most special about his most recent high school recruit and he instantly captures the essence of St. Thomas More Knights’ senior Zeru Abera.“It’s a tough thing to teach anyone how to be clutch in a basketball game, especially at the end of the game, and then to […]

While Burnaby South defenders including Leo Milanes step up on defence, West Vancouver's Felipe Schmitz-Manseck prepares to put up a fade-away jumper during Day 1 action in the TBI Super 16 bracket Dec. 4, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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02.10.25 edition: West Vancouver, Dr. Charles Best top climbers in the latest edition of the all-tiered SRS Top 50!

LANGLEY — Post-season basketball has arrived and as the games that matter most continue to ramp up in intensity, we’re back with the latest edition of the SRS Top 50 from B.C. Basketball Metrics.This week’s four biggest climbers: Dr. Charles Best of Coquitlam (44-to-36) and West Vancouver (32-to-27) improved eight and five spots respectively, while […]

C.J. Zuno and the Spectrum Thunder topped rival Oak Bay in league action to reclaim No. 1 in the B.C. Quad-A rankings. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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02.05.25 edition: B.C. Boys Top 10 ranks see Spectrum and Wellington notch huge tourney title victories!

LANGLEY — Last week’s No. 1 teams in the two largest tiers of B.C. senior boys basketball suffered invitational tournament championship game losses, yet another indication that we’re in store for four unpredicatable days of fun when the provincial tournament tips off in exactly one month’s time at the Langley Events Centre.In Quad-A’s three-team musical […]

Wellington Wildcats' star forward Grayson Ritzand leans in for a lay-up against Vancouver College during Day 1 action in the TBI Select 16 bracket Dec. 4, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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02.03.25 edition: The SRS Top 50 returns with its take on B.C.’s top 50 senior boys teams regardless of tier!

This week’s SRS Top 50, brought to you byB.C. Basketball Metrics is here!Mark Isfeld of Courtenay is the biggest climber, the Ice moving up five spots from No. 36 to No. 31.Victoria’s Lambrick Park enter the Top 50 at No. 50.(Note — the SRS Top 50 has been updated as of 10:30 pm on Feb. […]

MEI Eagles senior Olivia Sidhu has helped her team maintain a solid grip on the No. 1 ranking in B.C. senior girls Triple-A basketball this season. (Photo by Paul Funk property of MEI Eagles athletics 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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MEI puts vise grip on AAA No. 1 rank ahead of BC girls championships 75th anniversary tourney! Coach Thiessen calls his 2024-25 Eagles ‘unique’ over his 31 seasons on the bench!

BY HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITYLETTERS.caABBOTSFORD — When you’ve coached basketball for three-plus decades at the same school, you arrive at a juncture of your career where your words begin to carry an-ever deeper meaning.So when MEI Eagles’ senior girls head coach Rick Thiessen, who this season finds himself in his 31st year of guiding either a senior, […]

Oak Bay's Toren Franklin, pictured here in the semifinals of the Terry Fox Legal Beagle earlier this month in Port Coquitlam, helped lead his Bays to the title at the Vancouver College Emerald tournament on Jan. 25, 2025. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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01.29.25 edition: BC Boys Top 10 hoop ranks: What’s hotter than new Quad-A No. 1 Oak Bay and its star Toren Franklin who scored 42 in Emerald title tilt? And how about those No. 7 Heritage Woods Kodiaks!

LANGLEY — Toren Franklin scorched the goals to the tune of 42 points on Saturday in carrying Victoria’s Oak Bay Bays to 95-89 win over Nanaimo’s Dover Bay Dolphins in the championship final of the Vancouver College Emerald tournament.The win lifted the Bays into the No. 1 spot in the B.C. senior boys high school […]

Argyle's Mariia Mayden (left) is guarded by Claremont's Island Campbell during TBI Super 16 Day 1 action 12.11.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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01.27.25 edition: B.C. senior girls basketball rankings: It’s a month to the start of the provincials, and No. 1’s and No. 2’s holding ground at all four tiers!

LANGLEY — One month out from the start of the B.C. championships and finding spots in the top four of B.C.’s four senior girls varsity tiers is tough sledding.This week, North Vancouver’s Argyle Pipers move up one spot to No. 3 in Quad-A.Prince George’s College Heights Cougars and the Vernon Panthers each move up a […]

Yale's Besijan Shala (left) protects a rebound against Centennial's Emerson Davis during Day 1 action in the TBI Super 16 bracket Dec. 4, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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01.27.25 edition: SRS boys Top 50 sees Spectrum maintain top spot while Heritage Woods’ six-spot jump portents exciting Fraser North 4A title battles to come!

LANGLEY — Victoria’s Spectrum Thunder hold their spot atop the SRS weekly Top 50 for B.C. boys high school basketball.Here are this week’s latest set of numbers, which also see Walnut Grove and Sullivan Heights make Top 50 entries, courtesy of B.C. Basketball Metrics:

Frank Linder scored 39 points to lead Dover Bay past Spectrum in the semifinals the VC Emerald Invitational on Friday. (File photo by Howard Tsumura exclusive property of VarsityLetters.ca 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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No. 2 Dover Bay tops No. 1 Spectrum in Van College Emerald Final 4 as UBC signee Frank Linder scores 39 points, including winning triple! Dolphins face No. 2 Oak Bay in Saturday final!

VANCOUVER — Frank Linder’s game-winning three-pointer with 24 seconds remaining snapped a 79-79 tie and lifted Nanaimo’s No. 2-ranked Dover Bay Dolphins to an 82-79 win over the previously undefeated, reigning B.C. champion Spectrum Thunder of Victoria in the second of two afternoon semifinals at the Vancouver College Emerald tournament on Friday.“Today, Frank really stepped […]