LANGLEY — Welcome to B.C. School Sports preseason B.C. girls Top 10 high school basketball rankings for the 2025-26 season.We here at Varsity Letters will be with you every step of the way throughout the season, providing up-to-date Top 10 rankings from around the province each week.GIRLSQUAD-A1 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS)2 Seaquam Seahawks (North […]
High School Girls Basketball
Q-&-A with Tayla Jackson: As she finishes her first round of chemotherapy, former Brookswood, SFU hoops star, 28, speaks to her battle, and to the truth of hardcourt lessons worth leaning on!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — If you’re a member of B.C.’s tight-knit basketball community, you may well already have heard the gist of her story.Two weeks ago, former Brookswood Secondary and Simon Fraser hoops standout Tayla Jackson wasn’t feeling herself.At the time, with the start of hoops season just around the corner, she was in the […]
TBI 2025 Tip-off times now set: Complete four-day Tsumura Basketball Invitational brackets for boys and girls Super 16 and Select 16 pools now posted ahead of December tip-offs!
LANGLEY — Let the true official countdown to two weeks of high school basketball madness at the Langley Events Centre officially begin.Today we present the two seniors boys and two senior girls draws which make up the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals set run over the first two full weekends of December, beginning with the boys […]
Tsumura Basketball Invitational ’25 draw release: Here are all four senior boys and girls brackets for our 2025 TBI tournaments set to tip off in December at the Langley Event Centre!
LANGLEY — The very best of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball is on its way to the Langley Events Centre over the first two weeks of December.Today, we present the four draws which will make up the Super 16 and Select 16 draws as the 2025 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals.All of the precise […]
TBI field finalized: We unveil the 64 boys and girls teams set to take part this December in Tsumura Basketball Invitational 2025!
By Howard Tsumura(VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational is once again proud to help usher in a new season of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball.The 2025-26 campaign will only be in its second week of play when the TBI begins a two-week run at the Langley Events Centre with our senior boys […]
Fourth-quarter flurry once again turns the tide, Seaquam repeats as B.C. Quad-A champions as Toor’s three-point parade and Tait’s MVP ways carry the day against Nohr and Brookswood Bobcats!
LANGLEY — If you dissect an entire high school basketball season into its thousands upon thousands of shiny 10-minute quarters, there will always be one above all others that is worth its weight in gold.It is, of course, the one that follows every other quarter that comes before it.And because it arrives, full of mystery […]
SMUS Blue Jags turn tables on the Myth of Sisyphus! After two years of heartbreak, MVP Avery Geddes helps push rock to top of the hill in B.C. Double-A title win over Holy Cross!
B.C. CHAMPIONSHIPSDOUBLE-ANO. 2 SMUS 62 NO . 1 HOLY CROSS 54By HOWARD TSUMURA (Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — They didn’t just borrow a page from the mythical tales of Sisyphus.No.In fact at times over their prior two seasons, it almost felt like the senior girls basketball team from Victoria’s St. Michaels University School was gathering the kind […]
Fairytale finish! MEI tops Sa-Hali Sabres for B.C. 3A crown, Eagles first in 26 years and head coach Rick Thiessen’s first ever!
NO. 1 MEI 50 NO. 2 SA-HALI 49By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – As the final buzzer sounded and his MEI team raced to centre court to join students, relatives and others in a raucous celebration after the Eagles’ 3A championship final win, longtime head coach Rick Thiessen stood by himself on the […]
Pacific Christian breaks quarter-century title drought as Pacers top SAM Grizzlies to win B.C. girls 1A crown!
SINGLE ANO. 1 PACIFIC CHRISTIAN 70 NO. 2 SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE 63 (BY GARY KINGSTON, SPECIAL FOR VARSITY LETTERS)LANGLEY – The Cinderella story ended in agonizing fashion Saturday afternoon, but there was still a celebratory marriage of sorts in the Single A final of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships.The Pacific Christian Pacers, bridesmaids in 2023 […]
02.28.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls QUAD-A Final Four round!
We’ve gone final from Day 3 of the 2025 B.C. girls high school basketball championships with complete reports from today’s two semifinals.NO. 2 SEAQUAM 75 NO. 3 RIVERSIDE 61BY HOWARD TSUMURA, VARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — The game of Neelum Sidhu’s life came on the second-to-last day of her high school basketball career.It came from off the […]