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Despite a reoccurrence of her cancer, Terry Fox's Karin Khuong took to the court with her Terry Fox teammates on Wednesday as the B.C. championships opened at the LEC. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of University of the Fraser Valley athletics 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Terry Fox’s Karin Khuong calls seeing action with her Ravens’ teammates at BC’s vs. John Oliver: “A special moment to be on the court”

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NO. 2 TERRY FOX 69, NO. 15 JOHN OLIVER 37By Dan Kinvig (Special to Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — Sometimes, a simple game of basketball carries profound meaning that extends well beyond the final score.For the No. 15-seeded John Oliver Jokers, simply taking the court at the LEC on Wednesday was a matter of significance.The Vancouver program […]

Semiahmoo's Tara Wallack and the rest of the Totems were every bit in mid-dynasty form Wednesday as they opened play at the B.C. Quad-A championships. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of University of the Fraser Valley athletics 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Quad-A girls Day 1: Your home for live game reports all day as the 2020 B.C. championships tip-off at the LEC

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LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2020 B.C. senior girls Quad-A championships.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we continue to update the eight sudden-elimination games on tap.QUAD ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ABy Dan Kinvig (Special to Varsity Letters)NO. 1 SEMIAHMOO 126 NO. 16 PRINCE GEORGE 27LANGLEY — Semiahmoo Totems head […]

Langley Christian's Sydney Bradshaw (right) is contested by the defence of Creston's Prince Charles Comets during the opening minutes of their Round 1 B.C. Double A clash on Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Double-A girls Day 1: Your home for live game reports all day as the 2020 B.C. championships tip-off at the LEC

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LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2020 B.C. senior girls Double-A championships.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we continue to update the eight sudden-elimination games on tap.DOUBLE ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANO. 1 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 112 NO. 16 PRINCE CHARLES 22By Gary Kingston (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY — The top […]

Abbotsford's Malia Lenz (right) and the rest of her No. 1 seeded Panthers were decisive opening-round winners over Ali Chong and the rest of Vancouver's Magee Lions in the opening round of the 2020 B.C. senior girls Triple A basketball championships Wednesday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Triple-A girls Day 1: Your home for live game reports all day as the 2020 B.C. championships tip-off at the LEC

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LANGLEY — Welcome to Day 1 of the 2020 B.C. senior girls Triple-A championships.Please check back on this posting throughout the day as we continue to update the eight sudden-elimination games on tap.TRIPLE ATOP HALF DRAWQUADRANT ANO. 1 ABBOTSFORD 98 NO. 16 MAGEE 33LANGLEY — After his team spent 40 minutes in the fire Wednesday […]

The St. Thomas More Knights just wanted to make the B.C. tournament. On Sunday, they added the first-ever Sea-to-Sky zone title to their cache and didn't hold back their joy. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Ok, so where did these Knights come from? Internal belief in face of mounting losses helped St. Thomas More earn a most unexpected BC AAA berth!

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LANGLEY — If you had simply counted up the W’s and the L’s along the will-testing 3-10 stretch which Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Knights navigated over the first six weeks of 2020, you wouldn’t have believed your eyes this past Sunday afternoon at the Langley Events Centre.

Back in December at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational, Karter Fry and Victoria's SMUS Blue Jags gave DJ Laconsay (left), Matt Dunkerley and the rest of Vancouver's Tupper Tigers a solid push before faltering. This week, Vancouver Island MVP Fry and the Jags move into 3A No, 8, not far behind the No. 4-ranked Tigers. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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02.25.20 edition FINAL Varsity Letters B.C. boys high school basketball rankings: In the 11th hour, Oak Bay, STM and SMUS all crash the Top 10 party

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Welcome to the final B.C. senior boys basketball rankings of the season.Quad-A and Triple-A rankings will be joined by both Double-A and Single-A by Wednesday evening.BOYSQUAD A (records, rankings reflect games played Feb. 18-25. Records indicate games against B.C. competition only)1 Burnaby South Rebels (31-2) (LW-1)Last week — Won all three games to finish first […]

With the scoreboard perfectly framed to tell the story, St. Patrick's Irish Coquia sinks the biggest shot of his life Tuesday in the B.C. JV final at the LEC. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Picturs 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Irish eyes were crying, and for good reason! MVP Coquia’s clutch dagger trey lifts St. Pats past Churchill for first-ever B.C. JV hoops crown

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LANGLEY — Irish eyes were crying, but if you’d seen just what transpired over the final 20 seconds of play in Tuesday night’s B.C. junior boys basketball championships, you’d understand why.

Abbotsford's Marin Lenz, over the course of her prolific high school career with the Panthers, showed that she could not only perform magic with a basketball, but as well, put an entire team on her back. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls 2019-20 Player of the Year: Abby’s compact Marin Lenz has taken giant steps to stand at the top of her game

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ABBOTSFORD — It’s the highest sign of opposition respect to have your offensive game so greatly feared that you wind up facing one junk defence after another.

Meet Valleyview's Indigo Learie (left) and the rest of our first-ever B.C. Fab Five teams, the top five players as selected by the BCSSGBA from all four provincial tiers. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C.’s blue-chip best for 2019-20! From Quad, to Triple… from Double to Single, here’s our Fab Five girls hoops picks from every tier!

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LANGLEY — Welcome to the day before opening tip here at the 2020 B.C. senior girls basketball championships. Over a season in which teams competed within a revamped geography of zones and new league alliances, we have arrived at our annual look at the top players in the province.

High-flying Ron Putzi dunks during the Richmond Colts' 1988 title win over Seaquam at the PNE Agrodome. (Photo property of BCHSBBOA 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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…And then there were two! The Diamond Jubilee 75th anniversary fantasy bracket produces our two all-time boys team finalists!

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LANGLEY — We’ve arrived at the Final Four of our 75th anniversary all-time 64-team B.C. High School Boys Basketball Association championship bracket.None of the fan bases from any of our quartet of survivors wants to hear that our committee couldn’t make a bad choice, but the truth is, these are saw-off matchups.Coins were not flipped, […]