The 2017-18 B.C. high school basketball season opens Monday, and to get fans ready for the start of the new campaign, we open with the provincial Top 10 rankings for senior girls varsity. Abbotsford, South Kamloops and Langley’s Credo Christian top the three tiers.
High School Girls Basketball
No. 1 is all grown up! Abby’s Panthers still young, but championship finals heartbreak makes its Fab 4 Four wise beyond their years
ABBOTSFORD — There were moments in the opening half of last season’s B.C. senior girls AAA championship final when you questioned what you were watching.Had we reached an age where a team with two Grade 11s, a Grade 10 and a Grade 9 at the forefront of a postseason-shortened player rotation could actually lead their […]
The 2017 girls Tsumura Basketball Invitational at LEC, here’s the full draw!
LANGLEY — Last week we presented the boys draw, now it’s time to debut the girls draw for the 2017 Tsumura Basketball Invitational 16-team tournament, set to run Dec. 14-16 at the Langley Events Centre.
Sienna Lenz: Abby’s tough-as-nails senior guard set to join SFU Clan in 2018
NCAA signing day is set for Nov. 8, and sources tell Varsity Letters that the Simon Fraser Clan women’s basketball team has added yet another marquee name to it list of 2018 recruits.
Raptors’ DeRozan set to hold four-day youth hoops camp at Langley Events Centre
LANGLEY — The last time DeMar DeRozan came through town, he was doing his thing in front of a sold-out house of 19,000 fans at Rogers Arena.
LEC to play host to first-ever Canadian girls club basketball championships in August
LANGLEY — Canada’s first-ever national girls club basketball championships will tip-off in about six weeks time, right here in B.C.
TBI 2017: No. 1 Abby Panthers lead way, our 16-team girls hoops field now complete
LANGLEY — The field for the 2017 Tsumura Basketball Invitational senior girls basketball tournament is now complete.
Clan’s Sweet 16 hoops roster opens, gives Class of ’17 recruits faster NCAA futures
BURNABY — The Simon Clan women’s basketball team, which honoured just a pair of graduating players on its Seniors Night in late February, is going to be a lot younger team than originally anticipated this coming season.
Tsumura’s Take: Why the future of B.C. girls high school hoops is so bright
PORT COQUITLAM — On the last day of the 2016-17 high school basketball season, dire predictions about the state of the girls game in our province seemed to be the last thing on anyone’s mind.A new concept, which pitted age-class competition in an all-star game format between the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland zones on […]
Kendal Sands of Coquitlam's Dr. Charles Best has a big Wednesday awaiting her. (Riverside athletics)
Kendal Sands: Charles Best star, SFU recruit delivers on her destiny
COQUITLAM — It’s a bit cliche to say that someone was born to play basketball and born to play for any certain team, yet in the case of Kendal Sands, truer words could not be spoken.