Welcome to Week 5 of the BC high school football season. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Week 5: The B.C. School Sports Red Zone provincial high school football report 10.04.24 edition with Nicolas Hauka!

It’s Week 5 of the season, and we do here every Friday, here’s your link to the BC School Sports Red Zone Report with Nicolas Hauka.Click here to read Nic’s game reports, and keep checking back throughout the night!  

Windsor quarterback Emmett Ward gives the straight-arm to Carson Graham defensive back Zach Fluter during the Wolves' 27-16 win over the Eagles last week at Carson Graham. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Week 4: The B.C. School Sports Red Zone provincial high school football report 09.27.24 edition with Nicolas Hauka!

Week 4 of the 2024 B.C. high school football season is here!Once again, VarsityLetters.ca is honoured to introduce to as many readers as possible the work of young journalist Nicolas Hauka.Hope you’ve been able t find Nic’s work through this portal because if you have you can clearly see he has such a great feel […]

UBC running back Isaiah Knight broke the 100-yard mark on the day in the 'Birds 14-12 win over the Rams on Saturday in Regina. (Photo property of Piper Sports Photography 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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UBC 14 Regina 12: Isaiah Knight carries the mail! A re-commitment to running game leads to first win of season as Thunderbirds rally past Regina Rams with fourth-quarter surge!

VANCOUVER — If you had been harbouring the unmistakable feeling over the first two weeks of the 2024 Canada West football season that the UBC Thunderbirds looked more like a team that had fumbled away its core identity, turns out you weren’t mistaken.Whether it was through patience, belief or perhaps good, old-fashioned desperation, the ‘Birds […]

Viv Anderson-Francois of Vancouver's St. John's Eagles has been selected to take part in the 2024 B.C. high school All-Star Saturday showcase set for April 20 at Burnaby's St. Thomas More Collegiate. (Photo property of Wilson Wong 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. boys All-Star Saturday: We’ve got full rosters for all four teams as St. Thomas More hosts boys hoops finale April 20!

By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — A galaxy of the some of the best graduating talent in the B.C. senior boys basketball Class of 2024 will gather at Burnaby’s St. Thomas More over the weekend.The occasion?None other than All-Star Saturday.Mark down Saturday, April 20 at STMC’s spacious gymnasium, located at 7450 12th Ave., Burnaby.The Single-A vs. Double-A […]

Joe Linder and the rest of Nanaimo's Dover Bay Dolphins will be among the marquee teams taking part in the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational Dec. 4-7 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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BOYS TBI 2024: The teams are now set for the Tsumura Basketball Invitational Dec. 4-7! It’s a 32-team affair with Super 16 and Select 16 pools!

LANGLEY — We’re just over a month past another thrilling season of B.C. senior boys and girls basketball provincial championships here at the Langley Events Centre.Now, it’s time to put a stamp on the upcoming 2024-25 season.Today we’ve got the 32 teams which will make up the boys field in the Super 16 and Select […]

Seaquam's Camryn Tait, the reigning TBI Super 16 MVP, leads North Delta's Seahawks back to next season's Tsumura Basketball Invitational set to run Dec. 11-14 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Langley Events Centre 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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GIRLS TBI 2024: The teams are now set for the Tsumura Basketball Invitational Dec. 11-14! It’s a 32-team affair with Super 16 and Select 16 pools!

By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — We’re just over a month past another thrilling season of B.C. senior boys and girls basketball provincial championships here at the Langley Events Centre.Now, it’s time to put a stamp on the upcoming 2024-25 season.Today we’ve got the 32 teams which will make up the girls field in the Super 16 […]

That's how good third place in Quad-A feels for the Okanagan-Mission Huskies. The Kelowna-based team will be back on the court vying for No. 1 in the 2024-25 season ranked No. 6 in B.C.'s largest tier. (Photo by Mark Steffens property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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It’s way-too-early Top 10 time! B.C. senior girls’ pre-preason basketball rankings for 2024-25 are here!

LANGLEY — With the 2023-24 B.C. senior girls basketball season now recently in the rearview mirror, it’s time for our first look at the road ahead.That can mean just one thing: The pre-prepreseason Top 10’s at all four tiers!Let this be all the reasons you keep our great game at the forefront of your thoughts […]

How popular have the B.C. senior girls basketball championships become? This season's Quad-A final between North Delta's Seaquam Seahawks and the Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam was so popular that the game was played before a standing-room only sell-out crowd at its Centre Court complex. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. girls high school basketball will celebrate 75th provincial championships in 2025 at LEC by playing all of its Championship final games on the big floor of Arena Bowl!

LANGLEY — B.C. high school basketball’s championship season is coming off what may well be its most comprehensively attended back-to-back-to-back provincial tournaments.And while the walls at the host Langley Events Centre seems to still be reverberating almost a full week after their completion, the long-whispered rumours about a key venue change for one of those […]

Tyler Felt (right) of Spectrum closes off the lay-in attempt of Tamanwis' Seva Virk in Saturday's B.C. Quad-A championship final March 9, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Boys 4-A final: They came out of nowhere in a hurry! But Spectrum Thunder’s B.C. title win over Tammy bubbled over with ties to its past, brilliant skill and young coach who brought out the best in everyone!

By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — There are so many paths to traverse and rivers to cross in the quest of a B.C. senior boys top-tiered high school basketball championship that the journey of virtually every single prior winner is rife with clues… the breadcrumbs have been easy to find.They are kind of like the staples on […]

On his way to tourney MVP honours, Dover Bay's Frank Linder takes aim against the MEI Eagles in Saturday's B.C. Triple-A championship final March 9, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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Boys 3-A championship: No words could be more true than ‘It’s not a race, it’s a marathon’ for Dover Bay! Dolphins’ coach Seaman, MVP Linder put trust in grand plan in B.C. title-game win over MEI Eagles!

LANGLEY — Explore the deep and voluminous lore of B.C. senior boys basketball history, and a common thread of its early days often times centres around the good, old-fashioned discipline of running.As I grew into the high school school reporter’s beat at The Province newspaper in the early 1990s, I heard the tales of teams […]