Maple Ridge Christian's Carson Barber helped lead his team to a Final Four berth during Day 2 Elite 8 quarterfinal-round play at the 2024 B.C. senior boys basketball championships March 7, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Langley Events Centre 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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03.07.24 Day 2 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior boys Single-A Elite 8 quarterfinal basketball championships!

Howard Tsumura here, founder and writer of Varsity Letters.Welcome to the quarterfinal round of the 2024 B.C. Single-A boys basketball championships.We’ve got complete coverage tonight of all four championship games in each of the four tiers of competition.Keep checking back here throughout the evening for updates at this tier, but remember you can go to […]

Jaden Mesfin of the Pacific Academy Breakers soars to the rim during Day 2 Elite 8 quarterfinal-round play at the 2024 B.C. senior boys basketball championships March 7, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Langley Events Centre 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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03.07.24 Day 2 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior boys Double-A Elite 8 quarterfinal basketball championships!

Howard Tsumura here, founder and writer of Varsity Letters.Welcome to the quarterfinal round of the 2024 B.C. Double-A boys basketball championships.We’ve got complete coverage tonight of all four championship games in each of the four tiers of competition.Keep checking back here throughout the evening for updates at this tier, but remember you can go to […]

Dover Bay's Oyama Crouch is guarded by STM's Zeru Abera during Day 2 Elite 8 quarterfinal-round play at the 2024 B.C. senior boys basketball championships March 7, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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03.07.24 Day 2 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior boys Triple-A Elite 8 quarterfinal basketball championships!

Howard Tsumura here, founder and writer of Varsity Letters.Welcome to the quarterfinal round of the 2024 B.C. Tripe-A boys basketball championships.We’ve got complete coverage tonight of all four championship games in each of the four tiers of competition.Keep checking back here throughout the evening for updates at this tier, but remember you can go to […]

Spectrum's J Elijah Helman takes a peek around Burnaby South Keoni Sacco during Day 2 Elite 8 quarterfinal-round play at the 2024 B.C. senior boys basketball championships March 7, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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03.07.24 Day 2 reports from the 2024 B.C. senior boys Quad-A Elite 8 quarterfinal basketball championships!

Howard Tsumura here, founder and writer of Varsity Letters.Welcome to the quarterfinal round of the 2024 B.C. Quad-A boys basketball championships.We’ve got complete coverage tonight of all four championship games in each of the four tiers of competition.Keep checking back here throughout the evening for updates at this tier, but remember you can go to […]

Sir Charles Tupper's Finlay Chow-White took his Tigers on a ride Wednesday in an unforgettable battle against the first-timers from Surrey's Princess Margaret Secondary on Wednesday at the LEC. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of UFV Cascades athletics 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Varsity Letters’ Best of Day 1: Our writers pick the top four games of the opening round at the 2022 BC Boys High School Basketball Championships at the LEC!

LANGLEY — We’ve had a night to sleep on it, and as the countdown continues to a 3:30 p.m. tip-off to four tiers of exciting Elite 8 quarterfinal action today at the B.C. senior boys basketball championships, it’s time to re-live some of the best of Wednesday’s massive opening-round of 32 sudden-elimination games across all […]

Anthony Luyken and his daughter Aieisha. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of UFV athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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The Luyken Legacy: For UFV’s father-daughter duo of Anthony & Aieisha, building community through basketball is a lifelong calling!

ABBOTSFORD — Anthony and Aieisha Luyken are a father and daughter with a most special tie to the sport of basketball.Today, Varsity Letters is happy to help share, through the efforts of one of our founding partners, the Fraser Valley Cascades, the story of their incredible, life-defining love affair with the sport and its impact […]

Former UFV volleyball player Emily Carroll is one of four featured former Cascades' student-athletes working on the frontlines daily in the fight against COVID-19. (Photo property UFV Cascades athletics 2020. All Rights Reserved)
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Cascades vs. COVID-19: UFV varsity alumni Wauthy, Carroll, Wierks, Douma leading the way in the pandemic battle

ABBOTSFORD — Fraser Valley Cascades’ sports information director Dan Kinvig takes us right to the front lines of the battle against COVID-19 as told through the illuminating voices of four former student-athletes who have found their calling in the medical professionClick here to read their stories!If you’re reading this story or viewing these photos on […]

A long shot from the outset of her university basketball career, Fraser Valley Cascades head coach Al Tuchscherer now calls rising fourth-year forward Veronica Kobes the ultimate walk-on. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of University of the Fraser Valley athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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UFV’s Veronica Kobes: The walk-on who refused to walk away speaks to her dual dreams of a career with Cascades hoops and a med school future

ABBOTSFORD — In its most figurative sense, basketball has grudgingly given in. For years, it had watched the unrelenting will to learn from the walk-on who refused to walk away, deciding finally that she had earned the right to be its friend and confidant.

St. Thomas Aquinas' Jessica Clarke poses her way through the Britannia defence and to the hoop in B.C. AA quarterfinal action at the LEC. (Photo by Dan Kinvig property of University of the Fraser Valley athletics 2019. All Rights Reserved)