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Tag: casey archibald

Duchess Park Condors senior varsity head coach Jordan Yu points the way to star player Colburn Pearce. (Varsity Letters photo by Howard Tsumura)
Feature High School Boys Basketball University Men's Basketball

A Yu-Turn back to Prince George hoops! UBC’s Jordan Yu returns as a coaching Condor

January 3, 2018January 7, 2020Howard TsumuraComment(0)

LANGLEY — Yu bet. That was the headline to a story I had written almost 12 years ago in the pages of The (Vancouver) Province newspaper.

Semiahmoo's Brian Wallack is UBC-bound in 2017-18. (Howard Tsumura/VarsityLetters.ca photo)
Feature University Men's Basketball

The Totem becomes a Thunderbird: Semi’s Wallack evokes memories of all-time UBC great

April 3, 2017April 3, 2017Howard TsumuraComment(0)

SURREY — Brian Wallack was somewhere around three years of age when a young player from Salmon Arm Secondary named Casey Archibald first donned the blue-and-gold of the UBC Thunderbirds.

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