LANGLEY — The 2021-22 B.C. high school basketball season may be but a month in the rearview mirror, yet the journey to a new campaign’s tip-off is already well underway.While Varsity Letters is currently on an extended sabbatical, the one piece of news we did promise last month was unveiling the boys and girls entrants […]
High School Girls Basketball
Howie’s High School Hoops Hamper 2021-22 finale: Random thoughts as the off-season beckons!
LANGLEY — Some random thoughts and remembrances as I pack the 2021-22 B.C. high school boys and girls basketball season into my over-stuffed memory banks and look ahead to the game’s off-season hibernation:BREAKINGTo those who pay attention to our early pre-season polls, I have taken great pride in not only producing the Quad-A poll the […]
B.C. senior girls pre-season 2022-23 basketball Quad-A rankings: PoCo’s Riverside Rapids top our first look at province’s largest tier!
LANGLEY — The Riverside Rapids, coming off a loss to its Port Coquitlam crosstown rivals, the Terry Fox Ravens, in this month’s provincial Quad-A championship final, have been tabbed as the team to beat next season in B.C.’s largest tier next season.In an early-look pre-season Top 12 produced by the pollsters behind B.C. senior girls […]
A SUNDAY READ: It was the game of their lives! Here’s why Terry Fox’s win over Riverside for the B.C. girls Quad-A hoops title will become a generational classic!
LANGLEY — At times, Saturday night seemed like the first time they’d all met.Sure, the two teams knew all the faces standing on the other side from a childhood spent growing up together in the same neighbourhoods, but wow, don’t things just somehow look a little different tonight under all of these bright lights?And look […]
Two years after 2020’s heartbreaking B.C. title-game loss, trust in each other carries Langley Christian Lightning past Mulgrave Titans to a redemptive 2022 B.C. Double-A title!
LANGLEY — The past two years have left all of us with plenty of moments for deep contemplation, and for Langley Christian senior girls basketball coach Danielle Gardner, it’s meant among other things, time spent re-affirming the trust she’s always had in her own process as a coach of young women.If you think that is […]
B.C. Girls Triple A final 2022: History made as R.A. McMath’s Wildcats claw way to Richmond school’s first-ever provincial title in any sport after win over MEI Eagles!
By GARY KINGSTON (Special for VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY – It was throwback basketball at the Langley Events Centre on Saturday. Maybe not quite to the game’s origins – inventor James Naismith and his peach baskets.But when R.A. McMath of Richmond ground out a 51-46 win over the MEI Eagles of Abbotsford 51-46 in the final of the […]
Toor de force! Seaquam wins B.C. girls JV title as head coach Lucky Toor leads North Delta school to its first-ever hoops crown!
LANGLEY — So young, but so talented.The new B.C. junior girls basketball champions from North Delta’s Seaquam Secondary don’t even start a 10th grader, and yet such was their poise and unflappability Saturday in the 2022 final that they won going away.Now, for the first time in the 44-year history of the school, the Seahawks […]
03.04.22 Day 3 reports from the 2022 B.C. senior girls QUAD-A Final Four basketball championships!
Welcome to Day 3 of the B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We now have reports from both of Friday’s semifinals.TERRY FOX 83 OKANAGAN MISSION 76LANGLEY — One of the greatest single-game scoring performances in the history of the B.C. high school girls basketball championships put an exclamation mark on the sentiment that, just in the […]
03.04.22 Day 3 reports from the 2022 B.C. senior girls TRIPLE-A Final Four basketball championships!
Welcome to Day 3 of the B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We invite you to keep checking back on this posting throughout Friday for updates from the championship side of the draw.MEI 53 BROOKSWOOD 52Story by GARY KINGSTON (special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – A handwritten sign in the Brookswood Bobcats student cheering section read: Goodnite […]
03.04.22 Day 3 reports from the 2022 B.C. JUNIOR girls Final Four basketball championships!
Welcome to Day 3 of the B.C. girls high school basketball championships.We invite you to keep checking back on this posting throughout Friday for updates from the championship side of the draw.Stories by AARON MARTIN (special for Varsity Letters)SEAQUAM SEAHAWKS 52 YALE LIONS 48LANGLEY – A dominant final quarter from Grade 8 guard Syra Toor […]