LANGLEY — Diego Maffia never thought basketball could break his heart.Once, in his Grade 12 season (2018-19) with Victoria’s Oak Bay Bays, he poured home 94 points in a 114-88 win over Edmonton’s Ross Sheppard Thunderbirds, the greatest single-game scoring performance in B.C. boys high school basketball history.And over a university career with his hometown […]
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B.C. Junior Boys Preseason Top 10 ranks: VC, Bby South 1-2 with Mulgrave and Abby Traditional completing an early Final 4!
LANGLEY — Some traditional powers, and some interesting interlopers come together in the first Top 10 ranking for B.C. junior boys high school basketball.Coaches, you can send your scores by either of these two methods:Google DocsSend an email to jrboysprovs@gmail.comTOP 10 #1(Nov. 21, 2025)JUNIOR BOYS1 Vancouver College Fighting Irish (VSS)2 Burnaby South Rebels (FN)3 Mulgrave […]
B.C. Boys Top 10 preseason basketball rankings! Tamanawis, St. Pats, Pacific Academy, SJS all top their tiers as the March to madness in 2025-26 now set for official tip-off!
LANGLEY — Welcome to preseason B.C. boys high school basketball rankings for the 2025-26 season.We here at Varsity Letters will be with you every step of the way throughout the season, providing up-to-date Top 10 rankings from B.C. School Sports.BASKETBALLTOP 10 RANKINGSB.C. SENIOR BOYSQUAD A1 Tamanawis Wildcats (Surrey) (SF)2 Kelowna Owls (TOK)3 Vancouver College Fighting […]
TBI field finalized: We unveil the 64 boys and girls teams set to take part this December in Tsumura Basketball Invitational 2025!
By Howard Tsumura(VarsityLetters.ca)LANGLEY — The Tsumura Basketball Invitational is once again proud to help usher in a new season of B.C. senior boys and girls high school basketball.The 2025-26 campaign will only be in its second week of play when the TBI begins a two-week run at the Langley Events Centre with our senior boys […]
A Sunday Read: The ‘dream-like’ journey of St. George’s B.C. Quad-A MVP Dorian Glogovac! His 53-point Final Four outing sets new senior boys top-tiered provincial championship-side record!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVarsity LettersLANGLEY — If you watched the way Dorian Glogovac played over the final four games of his high school career earlier this month at the B.C. senior boys Quad-A basketball championships, you’d almost swear that he was performing in some kind of dream state.And maybe that isn’t too far from the truth, […]
B.C. BOYS QUAD-A FINAL: How the simple act of plugging players into a zone offence proved revelatory in Spectrum’s historic title win over Dover Bay! Thunder now Island’s first top-tier repeat champs in 51 years!
BY HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — There was no time to stand still.The season-long battle between No. 1 Spectrum and No. 2 Dover Bay, one which ultimately manifested itself for a fifth and final time as the finale to an incredible 2024-25 B.C. senior boys basketball season, never pretended, for even a second, to be anything […]
The Mighty Wolves of Windsor: After a 1-3 start to the season, a near-peerless three month, 30-game streak carries North Van’s Triple-A ‘unknowns’ to school’s first-ever B.C. senior boys championship hoops title!
By HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — The origin story of the mighty Wolves of Windsor might best be told along the lines of some script in development for the next big supernatural teen drama series.Set amongst the towering Douglas Fir, within a secret den somewhere amongst the vast expanse of North Vancouver’s Lynn Canyon Park, a […]
Wait, you must! The old guy at Varsity Letters needs a day of rest! B.C. Triple- and Double-A boys championship game stories are on the way
By Howard TsumuraVarsity LettersLANGLEY — Spend a couple of weeks sitting at the press tables of South Court, Centre Court and Arena Bowl at the Langley Events Centre and the idea of returning home to some much-missed creature comforts on a full-time basis is enough to make an old scribe start to yawn, sit down […]
Behind MVP Judah Ashbee, Pac Academy completes BC 2A championship mission! Next up? Breakers hoopsters leave on true mission of mercy
NO. 1 PACIFIC ACADEMY 80 NO. 2 SUMMERLAND 69By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – I’ve written this before, but my good friend Howard Tsumura can write lyrically on this website about any number of ways that basketball can be a metaphor for life and a conduit to bring together diverse groups of teenage […]
A 24-year pursuit of B.C. Single-A title ends for St. John’s coach Jon Kinman as Eagles top Unity for school’s first-ever hoops crown!
NO 1. ST. JOHN’S 87 NO. 3 UNITY CHRISTIAN 82By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – St. John’s Eagles, the little school that could, finally found its big moment Saturday, slaying the dragon that is boys high school basketball Single A powerhouse Unity Christian for a first-ever B.C. title.Tucked into Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood, the […]