(Editor’s note — Each year, in advance of the girls championships, I send out requests for information on teams I never get to watch during their season of play, hoping coaches will take the time to enlighten in all manner of team aspects.This year, Prince George Secondary head coach Tracy Cole took the time to […]
High School Girls Basketball
The Super 15: Our B.C. girls high school basketball 2017 Dream Team
LANGLEY — Ladies, you’re our B.C. high school basketball Dream Team.As the 2016-17 season hits its final four days this week, Varsity Letters and the B.C. Secondary Schools Girls Basketball Association are happy to announce our annual Super 15 and our Player of the Year.The next four days, starting Wednesday, marks March Madness with three […]
Hey Lou! Five B.C. finals in cards for ‘Cats No. 5? Forsyth our 2017 POY
LANGLEY — Louise Forsyth joined the basketball program at Brookswood Secondary as an eighth grader back in the fall of 2012 as a player oozing promise.Yet if you had peeked in on one her earlier phys-ed classes being run under the watchful eye of Neil Brown, the architect of one of Canada’s most successful high […]
Oak Bay, Seycove grab No. 1 seeds, draws for BC 2A, 3A tourneys here
LANGLEY — The Brookswood Bobcats’ bid to become the first B.C. senior girls basketball team to win four straight Triple-A provincial titles since the Salmon Arm Jewels did it to close out the 1970s remains in tact.But if they are going to do it, the three-time defending champs and No. 3 tourney seeds may well […]
I try and do the impossible: Put together the bracket for the BC girls AAA basketball championships!
Tsumura: Here’s my draw for the 2017 B.C. AAA girls hoops tourney
Impossible to seed, impossible to please.Just downright impossible.Greater minds than myself have been entrusted with putting together tonight’s draws (7 p.m. live stream, click here) for both the B.C. AA and AAA senior girls basketball championships.So I figured I would give the AAA draw a shot. (For fun coaches, please keep this in mind).TOP HALF […]
Riverside coach Langford has but two words: ‘Proud Coach’
PORT COQUITLAM — They weren’t supposed to have a team this season.
2017 B.C. junior girls basketball draw is here!
Here is the junior girls BC draw for the championships March 1-4 at the LEC!Overall, plus I have broken the main draw and qualification portions down as well!
Maryn Budiman: Taking Tweedy to The Big Dance
SURREY — Maryn Budiman came to school on Monday at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School wearing her figurative hard hat, armed with the understanding that boot camp had officially begun.
All You Can Eat: Who’s in, who’s a wild-card for BC girls high school hoop tourney
NORTH DELTA — Wildcard Tuesday with determine the final three Triple-A berths, as well as the final four Double-A berths to the 2017 B.C. senior girls basketball championships being held at the Langley Events Centre.
Argyle’s sock! Pipers use ‘best second-half’ to cop Crehan Cup
VANCOUVER — For the Argyle Pipers, the best half of their season was enough to not only make a little North Vancouver history, but get to the Big Dance with the zone’s shiniest shoes.