LANGLEY — Varsity Letters — The Podcast is back from its one-week sabbatical! Thanks for joining us and thanks for your continued loyalty to Canada’s only podcast dedicated solely to the coverage of provincial high school and university sports. Off the top, Simon Fraser Clan head football coach Thomas Ford checks in to chat with […]
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Clan ‘creating their own luck’ as preparation, opportunity meet to give SFU volleyball chance to set new program GNAC win streak on ‘Dig Pink’ night
BURNABY — You’ve no doubt heard about the concoction produced from that time-tested recipe, the one where preparation meets opportunity?Simon Fraser head volleyball coach Gina Schmidt isn’t denying the existence of old-fashioned good luck at various points of the five-match win streak her Clan (7-3) carry into the start of a four-game Great Northwest Athletic […]
VL’s Big 5 B.C. High School Football ranks 10.21.19 edition: Undefeated South Delta 2019’s fourth AAA No. 1 team, Vernon still wire-to-wire atop AA
LANGLEY — In a parity-riddled 2019 season, undefeated South Delta becomes the fourth different team to own the No. 1 spot in Varsity Letters’ Big 5 AAA B.C. high school football rankings.The Sun Devils, two wins away from a perfect regular season, host Victoria’s winless Belmont Bulldogs on Saturday.The shuffle takes place, however, after former […]
A SUNDAY READ: Why UBC football’s upset stunner over No. 3 Saskatchewan has ‘Birds coach Nill convinced it’s deja vu, all over again
VANCOUVER — Blake Nill didn’t hesitate for a second. When placekicker Garrin McDonnell booted his fifth field goal of the day, an 11-yarder with just 31 seconds to play to lift the underdog UBC to a most improbable 38-37 win over a Saskatchewan Huskies’ team ranked No. 3 in the nation, the grizzled Thunderbirds’ head coach […]
A Sunday Read: How Simon Fraser football snapped its 48-game losing streak! “It’s just the beginning for us” says Clan coach Ford
Sooner rather than later, Thomas Ford wants nights like Saturday to be business as usual.But he knew just as well as anyone who has held an emotional stake in Simon Fraser football over the past five-plus seasons that Canada’s NCAA team was smack dab in the middle of very a special moment.“Oh, man it was […]
FINAL EDITION: VL’s Saturday night B.C. High School Football Report: Irish blank No. 1 Hyacks, plus STM stays perfect and Catlin returns for Abby
LANGLEY — The Vancouver College Fighting Irish, St. Thomas More Knights, Abbotsford Panthers and Robert Bateman Timberwolves all came away victorious as another week of BCHSF came to a close.Click here for Friday’s late game reports!Click here for the main edition of the Friday B.C. High School Football Report!SATURDAYWESTERN CONFERENCENo. 1 NEW WESTMINSTER at No. […]
FINAL EDITION: Varsity Letters’ 10.18.19 Friday Night Lights B.C. High School Football Report
Welcome to the Final Edition of Varsity Letters’ Friday Night Lights B.C. High School Football Report.Keep us in mind Saturday as more action unfolds.And remember that the Subway Bowl playoffs kick-off exactly three weeks from today!AAAFRIDAYWESTERN CONFERENCENo. 2 SOUTH DELTA 37 at BELMONT 6VICTORIA —The South Delta Sun Devils (5-0) are setting the pace atop […]
Varsity Letters’ All-U-Can-Eat High School Football Weekend Survival Guide: Our Top 5 blue-chip games, schedules, rankings, scores!
LANGLEY — That true fall football feeling has seeped into the environment, and as we enter the third-to-last weekend of the regular season, here’s our All-You-Can-Eat weekend B.C. High School Survival Guide.
A Jhaj of greatness: Amidst the emotion of UFV seniors night, Cascades’ all-time scoring leader Gurmaan Jhaj must summon his best game
ABBOTSFORD — Gurmaan Jhaj has brought a rare talent to the fore over the course of his university soccer career with the Fraser Valley Cascades.
B.C. Boys High School Soccer Rankings 10.16.19: Thunder, Saints, Blue Devils still the top trio, Royal Bay makes its Top 10-entrance
LANGLEY — Surrey’s Panorama Ridge Thunder continued its roll atop the provincial boys AAA soccer Top 10 rankings for another week. The latest rankings:SENIOR BOYSTRIPLE A1 Panorama Ridge Thunder (Surrey) (LW-1) 2 St. George’s Saints (Vancouver) (2) 3 Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils (Coquitlam) (3)4 Reynolds Roadrunners (Victoria) (4)5 Handsworth Royals (6)6 Moscrop Panthers (Burnaby) (7)7 Argyle […]











