Here's your complete list of all senior boys and girls high school basketball teams set to take part in TBI 2025 this coming December. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Seaquam Seahawks (clockwise l to r) Mackenzie Henderson, Neelum Sidhu, Camryn Tait, Callie Brost and Syra Toor can sense impending victory, something not lost on Brookswood's Fabi Taylor during B.C. Quad-A senior girls basketball championship final March 1, 2025 at the Langley Events Centre's Arena Bowl. (Photo by Garrett James property of Langley Events 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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Fourth-quarter flurry once again turns the tide, Seaquam repeats as B.C. Quad-A champions as Toor’s three-point parade and Tait’s MVP ways carry the day against Nohr and Brookswood Bobcats!

LANGLEY — If you dissect an entire high school basketball season into its thousands upon thousands of shiny 10-minute quarters, there will always be one above all others that is worth its weight in gold.It is, of course, the one that follows every other quarter that comes before it.And because it arrives, full of mystery […]

MEI head coach Rick Thiessen erupts with joy after his 2024-25 Eagles gave him his first B.C. girls basketball title Saturday at the LEC's Arena Bowl. (Photo by Garrett James property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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Fairytale finish! MEI tops Sa-Hali Sabres for B.C. 3A crown, Eagles first in 26 years and head coach Rick Thiessen’s first ever!

NO. 1 MEI 50  NO. 2 SA-HALI 49By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – As the final buzzer sounded and his MEI team raced to centre court to join students, relatives and others in a raucous celebration after the Eagles’ 3A championship final win, longtime head coach Rick Thiessen stood by himself on the […]

Pacific Christian's Kealayna Tupas-Singh looks to create the space she needs to get past Sir Alexander Mackenzie's Emily Coe during championship game action at the 2025 B.C. senior girls Single-A basketball championships 03.01.25 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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Pacific Christian breaks quarter-century title drought as Pacers top SAM Grizzlies to win B.C. girls 1A crown!

SINGLE ANO. 1 PACIFIC CHRISTIAN 70  NO. 2 SIR ALEXANDER MACKENZIE 63 (BY GARY KINGSTON, SPECIAL FOR VARSITY LETTERS)LANGLEY – The Cinderella story ended in agonizing fashion Saturday afternoon, but there was still a celebratory marriage of sorts in the Single A final of the B.C. senior girls basketball championships.The Pacific Christian Pacers, bridesmaids in 2023 […]

Brookswood's Jordyn Nohr eyes a pull up shot as Argyle's Cassidy Nugent closes during B.C. senior girls Quad A Final Four, 02.28.25 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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02.28.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls QUAD-A Final Four round!

We’ve gone final from Day 3 of the 2025 B.C. girls high school basketball championships with complete reports from today’s two semifinals.NO. 2 SEAQUAM 75 NO. 3 RIVERSIDE 61BY HOWARD TSUMURA, VARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — The game of Neelum Sidhu’s life came on the second-to-last day of her high school basketball career.It came from off the […]

St. Thomas More's Demicah Arnaldo is guarded by Holy Corss' Solene Jackson during B.C. senior girls Triple-A Final Four, 02.28.25 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL: 02.28.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls DOUBLE-A Final Four round!

We’ve gone final from Day 3 of the 2025 B.C. girls high school basketball championships with complete reports from today’s two semifinals.NO. 1 HOLY CROSS 81  NO. 4 ST. THOMAS MORE 73By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – The Holy Cross Crusaders senior girls basketball team will run opponents dizzy with their speed. And […]

MEI's Ella Tatlock was a huge fourth-quarter factor in the Eagles' game against Vernon during semifinal-round action at the 2025 B.C. senior girls Triple-A basketball championships 02.28.25 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of Langley Events Centre 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL: 02.28.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls TRIPLE-A Final Four round!

We’ve gone final from Day 3 of the 2025 B.C. girls high school basketball championships with complete reports from today’s two semifinals.NO. 1 MEI 64, NO. 4 VERNON 55BY DAN KINVIG (Special for Varsity Letters)The MEI Eagles are so deep and tall and talented and versatile, they can beat you in any number of ways.But […]

Keylana Tupas-Singh (left) of the Pacific Christian Pacers is geared by Unity Christian's Kenna Friesen during the B.C. Single-A Final Four semifinals Friday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property of the Langley Events Centre 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL: 02.28.25 Day 3 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls SINGLE-A Final Four round!

We’ve gone final from Day 3 of the 2025 B.C. girls high school basketball championships with complete reports from today’s two semifinals.NO. 1 PACIFIC CHRISTIAN 50  NO. 4 UNITY CHRISTIAN 23By GARY KINGSTON (Special for Varsity Letters)LANGLEY – Boss Bakery in Vancouver’s Chinatown makes legendary turnovers, apple ones being the best sellers.At the Langley Events […]

Semiahmoo's Jaida Claypool, posing here with Quad-A co-tournament director Sharon Butler, earned a POG nod after scoring 37 points, all over the first three quarters, in her team's consolation round 82-43 win over Mt. Baker of Cranbrook. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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Quad-A girls Top 5 scorers on Final 8 Thursday! This quintet made a huge impression on the South Court crowd!

BY HOWARD TSUMURAVARSITY LETTERSLANGLEY — With Quad-A co-tournament directors Tim Cowley and Sharon Butler keeping tally throughout the day, here’s Quad-A’s Top 5 scorers from Thursday.1 JORDYN NOHR (Brooskwood Bobcats)Scored 30 of her game-high 37 points in the second half to lead her team into the Final Four with a 69-62 win over G.W. Graham.2 […]

St. Thomas More's Mia Beliveau faces a Southridge Storm defence during quarterfinal-round action at the 2025 B.C. senior girls Double-A basketball championships 02.27.25 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2025. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL: 02.27.25 Day 2 reports from the 2025 B.C. senior girls DOUBLE-A Final Eight round!

LANGLEY — We’ve gone final on our reports from the B.C. 4A, 3A and 2A games played at the Langley Events Centre tonight with reports from all 12 of the games played at South Court, Centre Court and the Fieldhouse gyms.We’ll be back again tomorrow with reports from all four tiers as Final Four Friday […]