LANGLEY TOWNSHIP — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2026 B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball championship, coming to you from the Langley Events Centre.Please check back here reguarly as our team of writers provide first-hand game coverage from the eight sudden-elimination games being contested at this tier.Thanks for your loyalty!Howard TsumuraDOUBLE ANO. 2 CREDO CHRISTIAN […]
High School Girls Basketball
On the eve of tip-off 2026, STMC girls coach Cassie Lauang on appreciating both the teaching and learning moments in a most magical time!
(Editor’s preface — There is a no mistaking the special feeling that is in the air on the eve of the B.C. senior girls high school basketball championships.St. Thomas More Knights senior girls basketball head coach Cassie Lauang reflected on some of those, and they are the kinds of moments that every coach leading a […]
Let the Big Dance Begin! All four draws released for 2026 B.C. senior girls basketball championships at the LEC, the home of high school hoops! Study hall begins now!
BY HOWARD TSUMURAVarsityLetters.caLANGLEY — Welcome to the unveiling of the road map to B.C. senior girls high school basketball glory, all set to kick off Feb. 25 at the Langley Events Centre.Click on the links below to plan your four days at the tournament and join us Feb. 25-28 for our filings from the heart […]
Tupper’s time arrives! After 46 years, East Van’s Sir Charles Tupper punch 11th-hour Big Dance tickets! UVic-bound Denira Dundas leads way to last-chance qualifier win over Robert Bateman!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caSURREY — In your entire high school life, is there any course in the classroom you could take that would teach you the true meaning of sacrifice and perseverance in the quest of your cause better than playing a win-or-go home basketball game for a berth to the B.C. championships?Better still, how about […]
Varsity Letters bulletin: Coaches and players, please be patient as we finalize our dates for Dec. 2026 Tsumura Basketball Invitationals for girls and boys at the Langley Events Centre!
By Howard TsumuraVarsityLetters.caTOWNSHIP OF LANGLEY — Hello to our community of senior girls and boys high school basketball coaches around the province of B.C.Howard Tsumura here today with a message to everyone wondering about the dates for the 2026 Tsumura Basketball Invitational which has traditionally been played over the first two weeks of December.Due to […]
No. 3 Seaquam 84 No. 5 Johnston Heights 77: While Puneet and Callie combine for 87 points, we search for the silver lining in a game ‘nobody won’!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersNORTH DELTA — Ever watch a high school basketball game in which at its conclusion both teams could rightly claim a loss, yet along the way to said result, laid bare a pure guts performance so compelling that as a spectator you just felt fortunate to have been in the gym?That was […]
Yes, it’s a marathon, but for North Van’s No. 1-ranked Argyle Pipers, the Road to the LEC can also have its share of sprints!
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersNORTH VANCOUVER — Wonder what one of the best high school basketball teams in the province had planned for in the early morning hours of today, the first Tuesday in February?“Umm, we have wind sprints at 7:10 a.m., tomorrow morning… and it’s on purpose, right?” Anthony Beyrouti, head coach of the Quad-A […]
02.02.26 edition: Pipers, Panthers, Crusaders and T-Wolves hold down the fort! Are latest BC senior girls Top 10 rankings the calm before the playoff storm?
LANGLEY — The calm before the storm.That’s perhaps the easiest way, ahead of the stretch-drive run to playoffs, to describe the quietest week of the B.C. senior girls basketball season… at least as far as movement in the provincial rankings is concerned.The Lambrick Park Pride’s four-spot rise in Double-A aside, the figurative pond remained placid […]
01.26.26 edition: The latest B.C. senior girls Top 10 basketball ranks: Vernon Panthers take over top spot in latest Triple-A Top 10, Argyle Pipers maintain top sot at Quad A!
LANGLEY — We’ve got the latest B.C. senior girls high school basketball rankings for Jan. 26., 2026.The big move this week?The Vernon Panthers have ascended to the No. 1 spot in the Triple-A ranks.A note to readers who have asked about getting rankings for the tiers that are not represented in this space… unfortunately we […]
01.12.26 edition: The first B.C. senior girls high school basketball Top 10 rankings of 2026 are here!
LANGLEY — Here are the first B.C. School Sports’ Top 10s of 2026 available from Tiers 4A, 3A and 2A:GIRLSQUAD-A1 Argyle Pipers (North Vancouver) (VSS) (LW-1) 2 Riverside Rapids (Port Coquitlam) (FN) (2) 3 Seaquam Seahawks (North Delta) (SF) (3)4 G.W. Graham Grizzlies (Chilliwack) (EV) (4)5 MEI Eagles (Abbotsford) (EV) (5)6 Semiahmoo Thunderbirds (Surrey) (SF) (8) 7 Johnston […]