LANGLEY — B.C.’s fastest schoolboy for 2018? His name is Kenny Blackman Jr., and on Friday, at the moment he knew the finish line was his to break, he spread his arms like wings.
High School Track & Field
All that Jas! Q.E.’s Jasneet Nijjar brings rare skills and grit as she chases track’s tricky triple-triple
LANGLEY — The triple-triple? In sprinting circles, especially as it pertains to the B.C. girls high school track and field championships, it’s an absolute rarity.
Tsumura: Hello, Dolly! My Top 10 moments from Day 1 at the 2018 B.C. high school track & field championships
LANGLEY — Day 1 at the B.C. high school track and field championships is always the quietest of the annual three-day extravaganza.Yet as usual, it sets up the storylines that are to follow as the 2017-18 sports years continues to wind down to the end of its calendar season.Here’s Varsity Letter’s look at the Top […]
West Van’s Megan Roxby: Spinal surgery? A broken leg? Nothing slows pulse & pace of Highlanders’ courageous, SFU-bound runner
WEST VANCOUVER — She hasn’t been documenting the steps of her journey, but if the running gods have, this might be the time to remind them that they’ve got a story to tell.
A steep chase for Grace? Hyacks’ Oregon State-bound Fetherstonhaugh sets a sky-high steeplechase bar
BURNABY — Grace Fetherstonhaugh has got the first one out of the way. Now she hopes the path just keeps getting smoother as she attempts to round into the kind of form which will help carry her to the No. 1 goal of her senior season.
Epic 3,000m senior girls final put B.C. high school middle-distance front-&-centre
LANGLEY — As we get set to bid farewell to another season of B.C. high school sports, my mind can’t help but look forward to so many new plotlines, all enhanced by the happenings of an exciting 2016-17 season.
UBC’s top-of-the-charts recruiting class is filled with records, solid-gold performances
VANCOUVER — It might not be a once-in-a-lifetime recruiting class, but if you want to call it that, it’s not hard to find the numbers to make your argument.
Hyacks’ Big Ben turns silver streak into golden gallop, Tjernagel medals twice in sprints
LANGLEY — Ben Tjernagel is pretty fast, and it seems, pretty fast at shaking off a heartbreaking loss.
Check-list Charlie does it all! Royals’ Dannatt takes double gold, sets new 3-K mark
BURNABY — The only way Charlie Dannatt could have predicted the final weekend of his high school track career would have been to answer the question ‘What’s greatest dream finish you could possibly predict for yourself?’
TSUMURA: My top three takeaways from Day 2 of the Subway BC track and field meet
LANGLEY — My top three takeaways from Day 2 Friday at the Subway B.C. High School Track and Field championships, with huge thanks to a dear friend of Varsity Letters, photographer Wilson Wong, who helps bring these vignettes to life: