Handsworth's Aidan Chubb (left) is one half of the Royals' twin tower front court attack. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Blair.photo 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. girls championships 2020: Rick Mark, a high school hoops lifer, helps get Handsworth Royals back to The Big Dance

NORTH VANCOUVER — Absence makes a basketball coach’s heart grow fonder, and in the case of Rick Mark, you can almost hear that excited pulse the second his voice comes over the telephone wires.“I thought I was getting too old for this, but after 15 years off, here I am again,” laughed Mark, 70, as […]

Langley Christian's Lainey Shelvey drives past Nicole Torozan during third-fourth place game at TBI 2019, Saturday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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02.05.20 edition: Varsity Letters BC boys and girls basketball rankings

NORTH DELTA — VarsityLetters.ca is experiencing difficulties as it concerns our ability to post stories to this site.The issues are being dealt with and we ask for your patience over this time.Today, both boys and girls rankings will be added to this posting as they become available. Please continue to check back with us through […]

Cutting a path through the Centennial Centaurs this past December at TBI 2019 is Kelowna's Jonathon Haughton. The senior guard and the rest of the Owls play host to this weekend's Western Canada Invitational. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Western Canada 2020: No. 3 Owls bring the best to Kelowna! No. 1 Rebels, No. 4 Royals, No. 6 Saints joined by Alberta, Manitoba’s best

KELOWNA — Like every head coach hosting an invitational tournament, the one accepted advantage is the built-in ability to schedule as cushy a first-round opponent as is possible.

Byrne Creek's Bobby Mabeny hit eight treys in leading the Bulldogs past No. 2 GW Graham, and into Saturday morning's Final Four at the Robert Bateman Timberwolves Classic in Abbotsford. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2020. All Rights Reserved)
Yale's Jauquin Bennett-Boire was named MVP as the Yale Lions won the 2015 B.C. Triple-A title. ) (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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The diamond jubilee bracket! Here’s how our 75th anniversary B.C. boys all-time first-round games played out

NORTH DELTA — Our learned basketball elders have spoken.After what were surely furious debates, they have delivered the opening-round results in our BCHSBBA 75th anniversary All-Time B.C. Boys Basketball Tournament Bracket.As one member of the panel said to me: “If half the people are happy and the other half furious, then I guess we nailed […]

The sweetest moment! Richmond's Louis Johnson, the 1991 MVP, shears the nylon at one end of the PNE Agrodome court after the Super Colts topped Burnaby Central for all of the spoils 29 years ago. (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
The 1961 Magee Blackshirts in action against the Semiahmoo Totems in the 1961 single-tier B.C. boys basketball championship, played before 5,000 fans at UBC's War Memorial Gymnasium. (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
Steveston Packers Gareth Davies (left) and Ryan Brown celebrate a B.C. championship win over Richmond in 1984. (Photo used through the permission of the BC High School Boys Basketball Association 2020. All Rights Reserved)
Kate Stewart-Barnett the cross-country harrier and steeplechaser (right) has brought so many of her running qualities to the St, Thomas More Knights' senior girls basketball team. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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“…Try to catch Kate!” At St. Thomas More, nationally-regarded middle-distance runner Stewart-Barnett gives pace to No. 3-ranked Knights basketball

BURNABY — If they ever get around to presenting an award for the best-conditioned athlete in all of B.C. high school basketball, they can throw the trophy in the back seat and take it straight over to the campus of Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Collegiate.