LANGLEY — Neighbouring programs have flipped for each other in the coveted 10th and final spot in the B.C. senior girls Top 10 AAAA volleyball rankings.As North Delta’s Seaquam Seahawks drop out of the rankings, their spot is taken over by South Surrey’s Earl Marriott Mariners, now holding the distinction of Surrey’s top-ranked girls team […]
High School Girls Volleyball
Red Serge Volleyball: As 2021’s re-start season hits its stretch drive, PoCo’s Riverside Rapids let it flow, B.C. Quad-A No. 1 team hosts its annual classic!
PORT COQUITLAM — The Red Serge Invitational is always a huge deal on the B.C. senior girls high school volleyball calendar.Yet this time around, with its return to play following last year’s cancelled season scheduled for this Friday and Saturday, the anticipation is almost palpable at the longtime host school.“Oh man, it’s been two years, […]
BC Senior Girls Volleyball Top 10 Tuesday! 10.26.21 edition has PoCo’s Riverside Rapids the new Quad-A No. 1 as we unveil latest rankings from all four tiers!
LANGLEY — It was a shuffling of the decks at Quad-A this week.Every team from the season-opening B.C. senior girls AAAA Top 10 remaining a ranked entity as the calendar sets its site on November, with Port Coquitlam’s Riverside Rapids taking over at No. 1 from South Delta’s Sun Devils.Vernon’s Seaton Sonics make a big […]
A golden moment times two as Kelowna Owls girls & boy volleyball win simultaneous, side-by-side double gold at own Best of the West invitational!
KELOWNA — In case you were looking for signs of school spirit coming out of COVID’s lost 2020-21 season, the fans inside the gym as Kelowna Secondary School this past weekend, although limited by health protocols, gave every indication that it’s clearly alive and well.The Best of the West senior boys and girls volleyball tournament, […]
BC Girls High School Volleyball rankings: The Fab 40 have arrived! Top 10s from all four tiers show South Delta, Mt. Doug, Abby Christian and Unity at the top of the charts!
LANGLEY — From every corner of our vast province, girls high school volleyball programs have been getting back to play over the past month.Finally, we’ve got our first set of Top 10 rankings at all tiers.Here’s the first set of B.C. School Sports girls volleyball rankings for the 2020-21 season.A regular landing spot for rankings […]
A Sunday Read: Sadie Wilson’s winding road to the front row signals spike in fortunes as UFV’s volleyball Cascades prep for 2021-22 Canada West debut!
ABBOTSFORD — After years of waiting, Sadie Wilson’s inner volleyball radar is picking up the pulses of positivity.Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say, speaking in the language of her sport, that the 6-foot-1 right-side hitter is sensing a long-anticipated spike in her fortunes.To her, such peaks are welcome, especially when viewed against all of […]
Senior Service: Over a season that never was, Simon Fraser’s duo of Tays and Te kept character at the fore for the sake of the future!
BURNABY MOUNTAIN — Bianca Te and Julia Tays never doubted they would finish what they started.Yet the two lone returning seniors with the Simon Fraser women’s volleyball team never figured that the toughest test of their NCAA careers atop Burnaby Mountain would be defined by their response to the day-in, day-out grind of not playing.In […]
Our 12th annual edition: Who are B.C.’s Top 15 Grade 12 girls volleyball players? Check out our 2020-21 Dream Team!
LANGLEY — Way back in December of 2009, when UBC Thunderbirds’ head coach Doug Reimer floated an idea past me to honour the best girls and boys high school volleyball players in B.C. on an annual basis, little did either of us know that a dozen years later, the concept would be as fresh today […]
There’s a name for that dream! Carihi Tyees’ Emoni Bush, B.C. Girls Volleyball 2020-21 Player of the Year, takes her golden spike to Pac 12’s UW Huskies!
Ask Emoni Bush to trace the origins of her unique given name, and the senior volleyball standout with Campbell River’s Carihi Tyees delivers her answer with an appropriate hint of joyous wonder.“What I’ve heard is that it came to my dad in a dream,” says Bush.Trace the journey she has made in the sport over […]
Katarina Pantovic: Lord Byng’s volleyball superstar our unanimous choice as B.C.’s best high school volleyball player in the Class of 2019-20
VANCOUVER — Speak to Katarina Pantovic for any amount of time, and you very suddenly realize that the senior volleyball whiz from Vancouver’s Lord Byng Secondary School has taken not a single moment along the journey of her athletic career for granted.“I have the perfect example where I can say that mental toughness really came […]