A coach's tears of joy. Langley Christian head coach Danielle Gardner took a private moment amidst the celebration of her team's B.C. Double-A championship win over Mulgrave during Day 4 championship game play at the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships March 2, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Wilson Wong property of Varsity Letters 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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A Sunday Read: How this photo tells a thousand words about why our high school coaches coach! Here’s why I am writing about what Danie Gardner’s face says to me as her Langley Christian Lightning win B.C. girls Double-A title!

No. 3 LANGLEY CHRISTIAN 75  No. 1 MULGRAVE 69By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — Somehow, somewhere amidst the sea of Langley Christian players, parents and most of all fans, the latter of whom just a minute or two prior had stormed the court at the Langley Events Centre, Lightning coach Danielle Gardner found a tiny sliver of […]

The Langley Christian Lightning seem ready to make a third run at the thus-far elusive B.C. senior girls Double A basketball championship title this March at the Langley Events Centre. It's a quest being led by the team's talented trio of seniors (left to right) Taelor Coxford, Sydney Bradshaw and Lainey Shelvey. (Photo graphic by Gabriel Lynn, photos by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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The ‘Strikes Thrice’ magic of the Langley Christian Lightning! In a tier-free girls high school basketball world, might Double-A powers be BC’s No. 1 overall team?

LANGLEY — Imagine a B.C. girls high school basketball world without any tiers of classification.Instead, replace it with a soup pot of sorts in which every team in the province is thrown together to form a chowder-like broth.Bring to a boil.Cover.Simmer.Let the cream rise to the top.And when you lift that cover, who might you […]

Things got physical between Langley Christian's Katelynn Mallette (right) and Deanne Tuchscherer during Fraser Valley Double-A championship final played Saturday at Southridge in Surrey. (VarsityLetters photo by Howard Tsumura)
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LCS Lightning: Dani’s girls top Grizz, head to BC’s as Fraser Valley No. 1

SURREY — Danielle Gardner admitted her basketball team was taking a leap of faith in the offseason when the decision was made to move up from the Single-A tier it had dominated.