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Tag: Gladstone Gladiators

Riverside guard Avery Sussex led her team past Kiera Pemberton and the Walnut Grove Gators in last season's B.C. Quad-A final at the LEC. (Photo by Blair Shier property of Vancouver Sports Pictures 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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Avery Sussex and the Big Dance: How an amazing high school debut at Riverside foretold a career of dominance, and a chance to forge an unforgettable Rapids’ finish!

February 26, 2024Howard TsumuraComment(0)

PORT COQUITLAM — The basketball court is the place where Avery Sussex has shown her heart from the very start.It’s also the place where it’s been impossible to miss the fact that she’s had her guile for a while.Very few players ever make the kind of debut that Sussex did, when as a 10th grader […]

Gladstone's Michael Chany was a finalist in the B.C. high school slam dunk championships April 8 at R.C. Palmer in Richmond. (Varsity Letters photo by Wilson Wong/UBC athletics)
Feature High School Boys Basketball University Men's Basketball

Gladstone’s Michael Chany: How a ‘visionary’ kid paved his path to Capilano U hoops

June 20, 2017Howard TsumuraComment(0)

VANCOUVER — There is an old saying about how having vision can help you to see the impossible.

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