A study in focus, Walnut Grove's Jessica Wisotzki has emerged as a blue-chip recruit of the Simon Fraser Clan.First, she makes her high school farewell Thursday in PoCo. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Simon Fraser’s Jessica Wisotzki: After a high school all-star game farewell, huge future awaits as WGSS star set to don Clan colours

BURNABY — Basketball has continued to evolve into more and more of a position-less sport, one in which the standard line between guards and forwards has increasingly blurred and ultimately lost much of its relevance when weighed against the virtues of the dynamic hybrid athlete.

Langley Christian's Hailey Van Roekel (left) is headed to a CCAA career at Douglas, but before then, she caps her high school career in all-star fashion Thursday in Port Coquitlam. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2018. All Rights Reserved)
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Fraser Valley vs. Lower Mainland: Full rosters for Thursday’s senior girls swan song all-star game at PoCo-Riverside

PORT COQUITLAM — If you’re a bit of a misty-eyed girls high school basketball fan, it’s understandable. As zone realignment around the province kicks in next season, Thursday’s annual Fraser Valley vs. Lower Mainland senior girls high school all-star basketball game marks a sad farewell.

Diego Maffia wraps up his history-making high school career Saturday at the 32nd annual Vancouver Island Seniors Classic all-star game. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Vancouver Island All-Star Saturday: Oak Bay’s Maffia and 71 other boys, girls bid adieu to high school hoops in 32nd annual classic

LANGLEY — Few high school all-star basketball games in North America can claim a history as rich as this Saturday’s 32nd annual edition of the Vancouver Island Senior Classic, a three-game celebration of the Island’s best boys and girls’ graduating seniors.For example, back in the 1992 boys game, when the South beat the North 100-85, […]

As part of his frustrating Grade 11 season, Burnaby South's Sasha Vujisic battled through an arm injury. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys Basketball AAAA Top 10: Burnaby South takes No. 1 preseason ranking, yet Irish, Crusaders, Centaurs, Owls, Saints all on the prowl

LANGLEY — As cut-and-dried as popular opinion always seem to be at this time of the year, 11 months before that feeling of March Madness once again begins to infiltrate the ranks of B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball, it’s always been a derby.

Vernon's Isaiah Ondrik is one of five main-rotation regulars set to return for the preseason No. 1-ranked Panthers. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys AAA Basketball Top 10: Vernon’s huge core of rising seniors, steeled by tough B.C. final loss, set to open 2019-20 as clear No. 1

LANGLEY — If the Vernon Panthers ever find themselves in need of some offseason reaffirmation that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, they might want to talk to guys like Jadon Cohee, Brad Hoffman and Paul Getz.

King George's do-it-all rising senior Nikola Guzina is one of the most unique talents in all of B.C. boys high school basketball. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of University of the Fraser Valley athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Boys AA Basketball Top 10: King George nets program’s first-ever No. 1 ranking, now Dragons strive to win first B.C. hoops title

LANGLEY — By the time Vancouver’s King George Dragons take to the court in the late fall to begin their 2019-20 senior boys basketball campaign, they will be as senior-laden as they’ve ever been.

Semiahmoo's Deja Lee (left) will lead her Semiahmoo Totems into the 2019-20 season as the clear favourites in B.C. senior girls Quad-A hoops. Always lurking will be Sophia Wisotzki and the rest of Langley's Walnut Grove Gators. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls AAAA Basketball Top 10 Rankings: Cache of new contenders includes JV champ Fox, yet Semiahmoo’s Totems a rock-solid No. 1

LANGLEY — Down one returning starter but another year older and another season wiser, Surrey’s Semiahmoo Totems are, to no one’s surprise, an overwhelming favourite to repeat as B.C.’s top-tiered champs, this time at the brand-new Quad-A level.

Ahead of an opening-round clash at the B.C. senior girls AAA tournament, Marina Raocaj (left) and the rest of Richmond's R.A. McMath Wildcats clashed with Karsen Look and the Brookswood Bobcats last December at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational. McMath gets the early nod as B.C.'s No.-1 ranked Triple A team. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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BC Girls AAA Basketball Top 10 Rankings: As a new four-tier era sets to open, Richmond’s McMath Wildcats get early nod as Triple A No. 1

LANGLEY — They took a Final Four-bound Brookswood Bobcats team right down to the wire before suffering a heartbreaking 70-68 loss in the opening round of the recently-completed B.C. senior girls Triple A championships.

Langley Christian's Makenna Gardner and the rest of the Lightning will be the team to beat when the 2019-20 B.C. senior girls AA season tips off in November. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls AA basketball Top 10 rankings: Our pre-season peek for 2019-20 has Langley Christian’s Lightning sitting at No. 1

LANGLEY — Welcome to the new world of B.C. senior girls high school basketball. The 2019-20 season will usher in a four-tier world.