Mt. Douglas Rams' senior quarterback Hunter Swift brings not only the full package of athletic skills to the fore with Victoria's Mt. Douglas Rams, but the cerebral part as well. (Wilson Wong photo property of Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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BCHSF Player of the Week: Mount Douglas senior quarterback Hunter Swift brings leadership and perspective to the Rams’ huddle!

Chat it up with Mt. Douglas’ Hunter Swift — selected as one of Varsity Letter’s two B.C. High School Football Players of the Week — and you almost forget that the Rams’ quarterback, at age 17,  is still just two months into his senior year of high school.As him about his performance in last week […]

The new B.C. boys high school volleyball rankings have arrived.
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BC Boys High School Volleyball rankings 11.02.21 edition: South Fraser 4A powers Elgin, Fraser Heights, SLSS and McMath hold ground!

VICTORIA —The Quad-A South Fraser Zone held its ground, keeping four teams in the B.C. top 10 this week.While the championship final is slated for Kelowna, theSouth Fraser  zone championships expected to feature No. 2 Elgin Park and No. 4 Fraser Heights of Surrey, and No. 6 Steveston-London and No. 7 R.A. McMath of Richmond, […]

It's off to PoCo for Lauren Wight (left), Myah Cressy and the rest of the No. 2 South Delta Sun Devils as the top-ranked teams in B.C. girls Quad-A volleyball meet at the Riverside Rapids' Red Serge Invitational. (Photo by Mark Booth property of the Delta Optimist 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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BC Senior Girls Volleyball Top 10 Tuesday! 11.02.21 edition: The rankings have arrived… Red Serge could pit No. 1 Riverside against No. 2 South Delta in UBC rematch!

LANGLEY — Neighbouring programs have flipped for each other in the coveted 10th and final spot in the B.C. senior girls Top 10 AAAA volleyball rankings.As North Delta’s Seaquam Seahawks drop out of the rankings, their spot is taken over by South Surrey’s Earl Marriott Mariners, now holding the distinction of Surrey’s top-ranked girls team […]

What a combo they've been! With senior setter Julia Tays (front) and freshman right side Brooke Dexter (foreground) developing a unique chemistry this season, Simon Fraser has beaten some of the best teams in NCAA Div. 2 volleyball. (Photo by Paul Yates property of Simon Fraser athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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SFU Volleyball 2021: With Seniors Night weekend on tap, who knew that Simon Fraser’s ‘X’ factor would be it’s well-hidden group of third-year freshmen!

BURNABY — When the Simon Fraser volleyball team finally de-camped from its endless months of limited practice inside the West Gym and eventually stepped off a plane in California over the first week of September to open its 2021 season, who knew that its X factor would be its inexperience?Huh?“When you have all of these […]

It's been a long time coming for Riverside senior girls volleyball, but on Friday, Lauren Way (left), Emily Wezeman and the rest of the AAAA No. 1-ranked Rapids play host to the prestigious Red Serge Invitational at the PoCo school. (Photo property Riverside athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Red Serge Volleyball: As 2021’s re-start season hits its stretch drive, PoCo’s Riverside Rapids let it flow, B.C. Quad-A No. 1 team hosts its annual classic!

PORT COQUITLAM — The Red Serge Invitational is always a huge deal on the B.C. senior girls high school volleyball calendar.Yet this time around, with its return to play following last year’s cancelled season scheduled for this Friday and Saturday, the anticipation is almost palpable at the longtime host school.“Oh man, it’s been two years, […]

Both G.W. Graham receiver Tyson Kelly (right) and Nolan Watrin of the Robert Bateman Timberwolves lead their teams into big games this Friday. The Grizzlies play at Lord Tweedsmuir while the Wolves host Carson Graham. (Photo by Joanne Hewitt property of G.W. Graham athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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B.C. High School Football Weekend Survival Guide 11.01.21 edition: New Big 5 rankings ahead of Archbishops clash, plus Carson-Bateman and Fox-Centennial!

LANGLEY — Welcome to the final full week of B.C. high school regular season football.We have a big one Saturday, of course, as No. 1 Vancouver College visits No. 2 Notre Dame in a clash of undefeated Archbishops Trophy teams.Yet to any program playing what might be its final game of the season, and specifically […]

On three straight shots to the end zone Saturday at Western Oregon, SFU quarterback Justin Seiber, along with receivers Aidan Pearce, Caelin Johnson and Riley Morrison came dangerously close to capping what would have been an 85-yard scoring drive against the host Wolves. Can a young team fighting but falling just shy of grabbing that kind of momentum come back next season and produce different results? That's the question now as Simon Fraser football prepares to play its final game of 2021 on Nov. 13. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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A SUNDAY READ: In Simon Fraser’s Saturday loss at Western Oregon, we examine the ripple effect of three snaps, no reward and a young team’s search for momentum

It’s impossible to encapsulate all the moments which, when taken as a whole, add up to that most fleeting of sports intangibles: Momentum.The Simon Fraser football team has been attempting to find as much of it as it can with the hope that it will help lead them in the direction of their most elusive […]

Vancouver College's Iain St. Arnault scores his team's final touchdown of the first half Saturday in a win over South Delta at O'Hagan Field. (Photo by Dave Fong property of Vancouver College athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Irish blank South Delta behind Roberts’ three-TD day, countdown begins to Archbishops Trophy clash as No. 1 VC set to host No. 2 Jugglers in ‘Battle of Unbeatens!’

VANCOUVER — It took a global pandemic to halt B.C.’s most enduring high school football rivalry series, yet when the annual Archbishops Trophy game kicks off for the 64th time this Saturday, its combatants will not only each be undefeated, they will continue to hold down the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in Varsity […]

Not a whole lot went right for the UBC Thunderbirds on Saturday during a lopsided loss to the host Calgary Dinos, yet rookie running back Dane Kapler announced himself as a force, rushing for 161 yards on just 11 carries. (Photo by David Moll property of Calgary Dinos athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Playoffs hang in the balance! After horrific start in Calgary dooms ‘Birds in 53-14 loss, UBC needs a home finale win vs. Alberta, and likely a little help!

It didn’t take too long to reason on Saturday that the same youthful UBC Thunderbirds football team which had so convincingly flipped the fortunes of its 2021 Canada West campaign over a rags-to-riches two-week span, was perhaps suffering from a kind of collective swoon, the kind most commonly associated with too rapid a rise in […]

St. Thomas More running back Ryan Huang rushed over for 60 yards and a score Friday in his team's non-conference win over the Nanaimo District Islanders at Burnaby Lake. (Wilson Wong photo property of Wilson Wong 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION! 10.29.21 edition of the BC High School Football Report now complete!

LANGLEY — Welcome to the Friday Night Lights FINAL edition of the weekly B.C. High School Report.FRIDAYAAA WESTNo. 3 MT. DOUGLAS 44 at NEW WESTMINSTER 12NEW WESTMINSTER — Put Hunter Swift on the football field, and as he’s shown throughout his career the ability to, on his best nights, truly live up to his surname.On […]