Today, with three more official days official pondering remaining in a 2020-21 B.C. senior boys basketball season that wasn’t, we begin a three-day countdown of sorts.
From today through Saturday, Varsity Letters will reveal the Players to Watch in 2021-22 with our back-to-back-to-back tip sheets, compiled by a committee of B.C. Boys High School Basketball Association coaches, sages and spies.
Varsity Letters did not take part in the selection process.
Our schedule?
Today, we’ll unveil some top Double-A and Single-A rising Grade 12 talent, as well as letting you know about a select group of rising Grade 11 underclassmen in the Quad-A, Triple-A and Double-A ranks.
On Friday, we’ll give you the list of top rising Grade 12 Triple A Players to Watch.
On Saturday, we’ll look at the top rising Grade 12 players at the Quad-A tier.
We gave it our all to get photographs of as many players as possible, yet in year in which no games were played, that provided to be a tall order.
Yet we have many, and our huge thanks go out to Wilson Wong for being able to provide so many images, allowing us to honour as best we can, the student-athletes who forever make our game so special. More importantly, out hats are off to the Class of 2021 seniors for whom there was no season. You will all have better days ahead.
DOUBLE A
MAX ASTAK
King George Dragons (Vancouver)
6-foot-1 guard
KOLE JONES
Charles Hays Hurricanes
5-foot-11 guard
JEREMY PAGDIN
Nechako Valley Vikings
6-foot-2 forward
ADAM SPANO
King George Dragons (Vancouver)
6-foot-6 guard/forward
KAIDEN TALIB
Mulgrave Titans (West Vancouver)
6-foot-1 guard
REUBEN WRIGHT
Gulf Islands Scorpions
6-foot-6 forward
1A
SETH HULKA
McBride Mustangs
5-foot-9 guard
MITCHELL CROSINA
Cedars Christian Eagles (Prince George)
5-foot-9 guard
GRADE 11
QUAD-A
MADDOX BUDIMAN
Semiahmoo Totems (Surrey)
6-foot guard
LIAM DAYCO-GREEN
Vancouver College Fighting Irish
6-foot-1 guard
OSE EHIZODE
Holy Cross Crusaders
6-foot guard
AJ HAYER
Enver Creek Cougars (Surrey)
5-foot-10 guard
MIKYLE MALABUYOC
Vancouver College Fighting Irish
5-foot-8 guard
GURSHAN SRAN
Enver Creek Cougars (Surrey)
6-foot-5 forward
TRIPLE-A
KADEN CARRION
St. Patricks Celtics (Vancouver)
5-foot-4 guard
IRISH COQUIA
St. Patricks Celtics (Vancouver)
5-foot-11 forward
BEN HERBERT
Okanagan Mission Huskies (Kelowna)
6-foot-1 guard
BOBBY KELLY
College Heights Cougars (Prince George)
6-foot guard/forward
DOUBLE-A
WESLEY AINU’U
R.C. Palmer Griffins (Richmond)
6-foot-6 forward/centre
DECLAN CUTLER
St. Thomas Aquinas Fighting Saints (North Vancouver)
6-foot-9 forward
DYLAN GAGE
Brentwood College (Mill Bay)
6-foot-4 guard
DARIUS WILLIS
Hugh Boyd (Richmond)
5-foot-9 guard
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