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 […]

Seaquam's Camryn Tait is slowed by Brookswood's Hannah Easton during TBI Super 16 Championship game 12.14.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2024: Despite MVP Jordyn Nohr’s stirring second half for No. 2 Brookswood, it’s No. 1 Seaquam’s fast start and late poise that carry the day as Seahawks repeat as Super 16 champs!

LANGLEY — On a blustery, wind-whipped Saturday, power outages across the region threatened the cancellation of the eagerly-anticipated battle between the No. 1 Seaquam Seahawks and the No. 2 Brookswood Bobcats in the final of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational’s Super 16 championship final at the Langley Events Centre.Yet by the time the sun had set […]

Seaquam's Syra Toor splits the defence of the Yale Lions during Day 3 Final Four play at the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships March 1, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Dan Kinvig 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Girls 2024: As Quad-A B.C. champ Seaquam finally achieves its ‘veteran’ status, North Delta’s Seahawks bring new level of maturity as Super 16’s No. 1-seeded team!

NORTH DELTA — For it’s entire existence as an up-and-coming group of hoops wunderkinds, the Seaquam Seahawks have had a built-in motivation to carve a niche of their own in the B.C. girls basketball world.Checks its roster from the B.C. junior champs of 2022 right through the B.C. senior Quad-A champs of this past season, […]

King George's Faisal Shawwa was the key in the pivot as the King George Dragons defeated the Brookswood Bobcats during TBI Select 16 semifinals 12.06.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL: Day 3 TBI 2024 Select 16 Final Four Friday Game Reports! Collingwood to face King George in final!

LANGLEY — We’ve gone  final on Final Four Friday here at the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.The Collingwood Cavaliers and King George Dragons are set to do battle at 3 p.m. in a Sea-to-Sky conference final for the Select 16 crown. Both game reports are now published below.Howard TsumuraKING GEORGE 51 BROOKSWOOD 44LANGLEY — The King George […]

Seaquam's Mackenzie Henderson is one of a massive number of returning players for the Seahawks, who last season won both the TBI and B.C. Quad-A titles at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Girls 2024: Top to bottom, our Super 16 and Select 16 brackets combine to give the Tsumura Basketball Invitational its strongest overall field ever! The best of 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A in one place! Full draws are right here!

LANGLEY — The senior boys draws for the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational was released Wednesday (Oct. 16).Today, it’s time for the release of the girls TBI draws for both the Super 16 and Select 16 events, each set to begin a four-day run Dec. 11 at the Langley Events Centre.This year, we asked for input […]

Burnaby Mountain's Aidan Lear (left) is defended by Vancouver College's Aidan Lear during opening-round play in the TBI Super 16 draw Wednesday at the LEC. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2022 All Rights Reserved)
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Tsumura Basketball 2022: We’ve gone final for Day 1 of the TBI Super 16 draw! Game reports, photos and Thursday’s schedule are all here!

LANGLEY — We are complete here after Day 1 at the Tsumura Basketball Invitational’s senior boys Super 16 draw.THURSDAYQUARTERFINALS (all games at Centre Court)3:30 p.m. — Kelowna vs. St. Patricks5 p.m. — Burnaby South vs. Enver Creek6:45 p.m. — Vancouver College vs. Fleetwood Park8:15 p.m. — Oak Bay vs. Sir Winston ChurchillWEDNESDAY’S GAMESVANCOUVER COLLEGE 83 […]

Lord Byng point guard Eli Mullin (left) drives past Brookswood's Logan Stewart at the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational Wednesday at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2022 All Rights Reserved)
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WE’RE COMPLETE! DAY 1 at Tsumura Basketball 2022: Complete game reports from our senior boys Rising 8 draw!

We are now complete after Day 1 of the inaugural Rising 8 bracket here at the 2022 Tsumura Basketball Invitational.SCHEUDLETHURSDAYSEMIFINALS(games at South Court)6:45 p.m.– Spectrum vs. Lord Byng8:15 p.m. — Steveston London vs. North DeltaFor a complete report of the Local 8 tournament, please go to the bottom of this story for a filing from […]

Brookswood's Logan Stewart found the going tough against the defence of Tyler Browne and the rest of Victoria's Oak Bay Bays. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. Jr. Boys Elite 8: Oak Bay tops Brookswood, Bays’ coach David Thompson loves his ‘basketball junkies’!

LANGLEY — David Thompson loves the way his players love the game.The head coach of the Vancouver Island champion Oak Bay Bays got yet another commanding performance from his so-called ‘basketball junkies’ on Sunday morning, as the No. 5-seeded Victoria squad used a commanding third-quarter surge to hand Langley’s No. 20-seeded Brookswood Bobcats a 58-49 […]

St. Thomas More Knights senior boys basketball coach Aaron Mitchell. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Tip-off Wednesday: B.C. high school basketball is back, and minutes after news breaks, we catch up with six of our veteran coaches!

B.C. high school basketball coaches could barely contain their excitement Tuesday evening as they spoke with Varsity Letters just minutes after the official decision came down that B.C. high school basketball’s delayed opening was over, and that tip-off around the province would take place on Wednesday.“They have been waiting to go now for weeks,” said […]

Simon Fraser women's head basketball coach Bruce Langford has already seen the impact of his program's recently-launched IMPACT Mentorship Program, one which has involved past and current players like (left to right) Laura van den Boogaard, Georgia Swant and Brittany Fraser. (Photo graphic by Gabriel Lynn property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: SFU women’s basketball celebrates the power of connection, uniting past and present through its IMPACT mentorship program!

BURNABY — There are many variations of the parable which informs us that in learning we teach, and that in teaching we learn.Boil those words down to their essence, however, and what remains is the singular feeling of a journey coming full circle.Laura Kalenuik, née van den Boogaard, like so many other former student-athletes, has […]