Kiera Pemberton and Langley's Walnut Grove Gators are the No. 1 seed at Quad A heading into the B.C. championships March 1 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Your road to the Final Four! B.C. girls high school championship brackets released for 4A, 3A, 2A tournaments! Here’s your personal guide to March Madness at the LEC!

LANGLEY — The B.C. senior girls basketball championships will pave three paths to championship finals beginning March 1 at the Langley Events Centre.On Wednesday evening, the Double-A, Triple-A and Quad-A Sweet 16 brackets were all revealed at TFSETV.caHere’s each of those brackets for you to plan your four days of excitement at the LEC.QUAD ATRIPLE […]

John Oliver's Donna Pimentel sunk seven triples as the Jokers punched their BC tourney ticket with a win over the Pitt Meadows Marauders. (Photo by Wilson Wong 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. senior girls basketball’s sudden-elimination Tuesday: We’ve got all the details as 10 team battled for their Last chance to the Big Dance!

LANGLEY — It all came down to one last-chance-to-the-big-dance moment for 10 B.C. senior girls basketball teams on Tuesday.With 27 of the 32 total teams already determined for the B.C. senior girls Quad-A and Triple-A championship finals, five sudden-elimination games took the spotlight Tuesday.The five winners will be plugged into their respective draws as part […]

Your author is set to be joined by host Chris Kennedy as TFSETV.ca presents the 2023 BC girls high school basketball provincial tournament draw show from the LEC. (Photo property Varsity Letters 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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On the road to BC girls Sweet 16 tip-off: First, it’s five Tuesday sudden-elimination games, then Wednesday’s 7 p.m. bracket reveal show on TFSETV.ca!

LANGLEY — It’s been an incredible regular season in the B.C. senior girls high school ranks, and all of that had led to two more days of final prep ahead of the Big Dance.So, before the B.C. junior, and senior 2A, 3A and 4A championships tip off a four-day run at the Langley Event Centre […]

Okanagan Mission Huskies' senior Kanani Coon, pictured in action at the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag 2022 property of Langley Events Centre. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: She’s the 1% of the 1%, but huge odds can’t stop Okanagan Mission’s NCAA Div. 1-bound Kanani Coon from fulfilling her promise both on the court, and within her First Nations community!

KELOWNA — Kanani Coon never thought about just how heavily the odds were stacked against her.They were, after all, based solely on numbers, and any basketball player worth their jumper knows that numbers never reveal entire truths.Still, these were the kinds of facts and figures so definitive in nature that they seemed to be telling […]

Burnaby's Central's Ankita Chopra (left) dishes the ball against Fleetwood Park's Amber Patrignani Dec. 14, 2022 in the opening round of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Burnaby Central’s three-point reign proves too much for Rapids, No. 3 Wildcats upset No. 1 Rapids behind 26 points from MVP Chopra in Fraser North Quad-A title tilt!

BURNABY — Call it the wow factor of the Wildcats from Burnaby Central.Grade 11 forward Ankita Chopra’s baseline trey 40 seconds into the proceedings signalled the first of the team’s 15 three-point buckets on the night as the No. 3-ranked ’Cats, wire-to-wire leaders, beat the No. 1 Riverside Rapids of Port Coquitlam 74-61 to capture […]

Burnaby Central's Jade Hunyh (right) battles for a loose ball with Valleyview's Jocelyn Orr on Day 2 of the B.C. senior girls Triple-A basketball championships at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo property of Langley Events Centre 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. girls Top 10 hoops rankings 02.13.23 edition: Quad-A’s Riverside, Walnut Grove, Bby Central and Yale form an early, formidable Final Four!

LANGLEY — If you go by the pollsters provincial point tallies, we’ve got one heck of a Final Four brewing on the road to the B.C. senior girls basketball championships tipping off March 1 at the Langley Events Centre.PoCo’s Riverside Rapids, continue to hold down top spot, yet by only four poll points (71-to-67) over […]

Riverside's Avery Sussex celebrates on the floor with teammate Grace Park in the TBI Super 16 final at the Langley Events Centre. The Rapids have back into No. 1 in the province's largest Quad-A tier. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Girls Top 10 hoops ranks 01.31.23 edition: Riverside re-claims Quad-A No. 1 from Walnut Grove after Yale’s Ella Bohn banks home 3-pt OT winner vs. Gators!

LANGLEY — There seems virtually nothing to choose between B.C.’s top two Quad-A senior girls basketball team.The latest provincial Top 10 rankings have PoCo’s new No. 1 Riverside Rapids seperated by just a single poll point from Langley’s now-No. 2-ranked Walnut Grove Gators after the results of voting were released Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m.Riverside […]

Chioma Duru (left) of Victoria's SMUS Blue Jags battles with Kanani Coon of Kelowna's Okanagan Mission Huskies during Day 4 action at the Centennial Top 10 Shoot-Out invitational on Saturday. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2023 All Rights Reserved)
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01.18.23 Triple-A and Double-A Top 10 girls hoop rankings: SMUS takes over No. 1 at AAA, Mulgrave holds on to No. 1 at AA six weeks ahead of B.C. championship tip-off at the LEC!

LANGLEY — Victoria’s St. Michaels University School Blue Jags have moved to top of the Triple-A Top 10 rankings following a third-place finish at the Centennial Top 10 Shoot-Out.Their climb has included a split of games with current Quad-A No. 1 Walnut Grove, including a win over the Gators at the MEI Eagles Invitational.We published […]

Riverside and Walnut Grove have swapped positions in the most recent B.C. senior girls Quad-A Top 10 coaches poll released Jan. 17 after the Gators topped the Rapids in overtime on Saturday in the Centennial Top 10 Shoot-Out in Coquitlam. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2023 All Rights Reserved)
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Top 10 rankings 01.17.23 edition: Walnut Grove Gators move to No. 1 in latest B.C. Quad-A girls hoops poll following win over PoCo’s Riverside Rapids!

LANGLEY — As expected, the Centennial Top 10 Shoot-Out has re-shaped the largest tier of B.C. senior girls high school basketball.There’s a new No. 1 for the first time this season in the Quad-A rankings after Walnut Grove’s overtime win over Riverside in Saturday’s overtime tourney title tilt in Coquitlam.No other others senior girls high […]

The Quad-A No. 2 Walnut Grove Gators react to a win over No. 1 Riverside in the championship final Jan. 14 at Centennial Secondary's Top 10 Shoot-Out 2023. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2022 All Rights Reserved)
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Top 10 Shoot-Out ’23: Centennial’s mid-season showcase proves no one is unbeatable! As No. 2 Gators top No. 1 Rapids in Quad-A showdown, both teams reflect on lessons learned the hard way!

COQUITLAM — They’ve always played under a moniker, which in the grand tradition of the best high school nicknames, has lacked a genuine relevancy to either its history or its geography.Yet if you were among those in attendance for Saturday night’s championship final of Centennial Secondary’s re-borne Top 10 Shoot-Out senior girls basketball invitational, you […]