LANGLEY — B.C.’s graduating class of girls high school stars will deliver their talent all over the continent this fall, touching all three NCAA divisions, as well as U Sports, CCAA, NAIA and NJCAA institutions. Here’s your guide to who’s going where. If we’ve missed someone, let us know at howardtsumura@gmail.com and we’ll make the additions. And […]
High School Girls Basketball
Capilano U hosts North Shore boys, girls all-star games as 2018-19 high school basketball season ends Wednesday
NORTH VANCOUVER — Capilano University’s Centre for Sport and Wellness will host on Wednesday what is surely the final event on the 2018-19 B.C. high school basketball calendar. The occasion?
UFV’s Veronica Kobes: The walk-on who refused to walk away speaks to her dual dreams of a career with Cascades hoops and a med school future
ABBOTSFORD — In its most figurative sense, basketball has grudgingly given in. For years, it had watched the unrelenting will to learn from the walk-on who refused to walk away, deciding finally that she had earned the right to be its friend and confidant.
Girls 2019 Tsumura Basketball Invitational: Our 20-team field features some of B.C.’s blue-chip best, plus a core of rising newcomers
LANGLEY — We opened our week by presenting the 20 teams taking part in the eighth-annual boys Tsumura Basketball Invitational. Today, here’s our look at the field for the 20-team girls tournament, set to run Dec. 11-14:TBI 2019GIRLSARGYLE PIPERS — Plenty of height with a trio of six-foot-plus players in Gabby Francis, Ella Mellinghaus and Julia […]
Best’s Nikki Cabuco: A chapter defined by her tenacity and character gets fitting all-star close ahead of bold new journey with UFV Cascades
PORT COQUITLAM — If you have annually judged our best players by the number of appearances they make in the provincial championship tournament over the course of their high school careers, you’d have missed her.
STA’s Jessica Clarke: Wow! Ahead of Thursday’s Futures Classic, Fighting Saints’ Grade 11 impresses on national level at BioSteel All-Star game
NORTH VANCOUVER — Jessica Clarke has cemented her position as one of the rising young stars of Canadian women’s basketball.
Futures Classic All-Star game 2019: B.C.’s best rising girls talent brings a galaxy of talent Thursday to PoCo’s Riverside
PORT COQUITLAM — The Fraser Valley is as talented as ever, yet the Lower Mainland has its share of standouts as well.
Simon Fraser’s Jessica Wisotzki: After a high school all-star game farewell, huge future awaits as WGSS star set to don Clan colours
BURNABY — Basketball has continued to evolve into more and more of a position-less sport, one in which the standard line between guards and forwards has increasingly blurred and ultimately lost much of its relevance when weighed against the virtues of the dynamic hybrid athlete.
Fraser Valley vs. Lower Mainland: Full rosters for Thursday’s senior girls swan song all-star game at PoCo-Riverside
PORT COQUITLAM — If you’re a bit of a misty-eyed girls high school basketball fan, it’s understandable. As zone realignment around the province kicks in next season, Thursday’s annual Fraser Valley vs. Lower Mainland senior girls high school all-star basketball game marks a sad farewell.
Vancouver Island All-Star Saturday: Oak Bay’s Maffia and 71 other boys, girls bid adieu to high school hoops in 32nd annual classic
LANGLEY — Few high school all-star basketball games in North America can claim a history as rich as this Saturday’s 32nd annual edition of the Vancouver Island Senior Classic, a three-game celebration of the Island’s best boys and girls’ graduating seniors.For example, back in the 1992 boys game, when the South beat the North 100-85, […]