BURNABY — When the Reynolds Roadrunners won the B.C. senior boys AAA soccer championships back in 2016, it marked the program’s first-ever crown and it came on the occasion of the Victoria school’s 50th anniversary.All of which led Roadrunners head coach JJ Atterbury to tell veteran reporter Cleve Dheensaw of the Victoria Times-Colonist afterwards: “I […]
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B.C. Boys Coastal AAA Final 4: Reynolds’ Remi Barbot provides the go-go with two goals as Victoria squad tops Surrey’s PR Thunder for AAA title game berth!
BURNABY — Hands down winner for brightest smile on the pitch Friday as the B.C. senior boys high school AAA Coastal soccer championships wrapped up its semifinal matches as a prelude to its championship Saturday here at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex?Take a bow, Remi Bardot.The effervescent Grade 11 winger for Victoria’s Reynolds Roadrunners twice […]
B.C. Boys Coastal AAA Final 4: Argyle coach Darren Rath “…had a feeling” his Pipers were special, now comes a title-game berth after 3-1 win over Rapids!
BURNABY — All through the COVID-cancelled 2020 high school boys soccer season, veteran Argyle Pipers head coach Darren Rath carried around this feeling that all his class of rising senior varsity players needed was a season of play to verify just how special he knew them to be.Friday, on the lofty stage of the semifinal […]
B.C. boys Coastal AAA soccer Day 1: Riverside, Best, Argyle take big steps forward in group play, but Centaurs, Thunder, Spartans, Kodiaks locked in four-way tie!
BURNABY — The beauty of group play at the 16-team B.C. senior boys AAA high school Coastal soccer championships is that Thursday parity invites a Friday filled with uncertainty.And nowhere was that better exemplified on opening day at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex than in Pool A, one of the tournament’s four four-team groups, each […]
Tough road to title! Brentwood College goes to kicks in back-to-back games Tuesday, topping Carihi Tyees to win BC boys AA Coastal soccer title!
BURNABY — When a team goes to penalty kicks to win the two biggest games of its season in back-to-back fashion within a span of about four-and-half-hours, so much of it comes down to mind over matter.And perhaps no one brought more mental tenacity to the turf at the Burnaby Lake Sports Complex for the […]
Final Four set at BC boys AA Coastal soccer championships: It’s defending B.C. champ Notre Dame, Brentwood College, Carihi and Westview!
BURNABY — The defending champs have advanced all the way to the semifinals of the B.C. senior boys Coastal AA soccer championships.Yet after what basically amounts to a week shy of two years away, Day 1 of the 2021 tournament seemed to invite even more of the unknown.“Pool play is never easy, whether it’s 12 […]
B.C. Boys AAA soccer rankings! Defending champ and No. 3-ranked Panorama Ridge of Surrey “brings a hunger” in repeat bid effort!
LANGLEY — With the arrival of zone playoffs, the best part of the B.C. high senior school boys soccer schedule is just now kicking off.To celebrate that, we’ve got the latest AAA rankings which show extensive movement outside of the top five, especially with Surrey schools Fleetwood Park, Princess Margaret and Elgin Park all moving […]
B.C. boys AAA soccer preseason rankings 2021: Dr. Best’s Blue Devils and Centennial Centaurs push Coquitlam to the front of the pack!
LANGLEY — Classes may not yet be in session, but the upcoming B.C. senior boys high school soccer season is top of mind for those anticipating its return to play in the fall of 2021.As the calendar hits Sept. 1, Varsity Letters presents the B.C. Boys AAA preseason soccer rankings, courtesy of B.C. boys high […]
Stephen Burns: BCSS coaching honours awarded to South Delta Sun Devils’ longtime champion of B.C. high school soccer
TSAWWASSEN — It may have been the shortest and the quietest B.C. senior girls high school soccer season on record, yet its voice seemed to be within constant ear-shot of one its most passionate advocates.“Every time we had a game, I’d look at the schedule, and I’d think ‘Oh we should be playing right now,’” […]
Three for the show! Abby Panthers’ rare hoops trio of Jalem Catlin, Marley Edwards & Josiah Levale embark on U Sports careers in football, soccer, rugby!
ABBOTSFORD — Greg DeVries is some 30 years into a life of meaningful basketball games and practices, and as such, the head coach of the senior boys varsity at Abbotsford Secondary knows just how special and rare the make-up of his 2019-209 Panthers actually was by asking himself a simple question.