VICTORIA — The weekly B.C. senior boys volleyball rankings have remained rather static over the past two weeks, but all of that could change based on the results of play this weekend (Oct. 15-16) at Kelowna’s Best of the West invitational.The Best of the West event will feature 32 of the best boys and girls […]
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The beauty of high school school sports: When Kelowna Owls’ team bus blows a tire on Coquihalla, its game-day football trip to Abbotsford takes on a higher meaning!
If you happened to be headed south on the Coquihalla last Friday morning, somewhere in the range of 20 minutes outside of Merritt, then maybe you witnessed first-hand what one venerable B.C. high school football coach so passionately labels “… one of those moments along the journey.”There it was: A school bus from Kelowna Secondary, […]
TWU women’s hoops 2021-22: Spartans’ veteran core excited to push the re-start button in home-opener vs. blue-chip Winnpeg Wesmen!
LANGLEY — Ask university coaches across the country what the search for cohesion, chemistry and identity within their rosters has been like coming off the COVID-cancelled 2020-21 season, and while each will have their own way of describing the challenges, all are delivered along the same thematic road of putting all the pieces back together […]
Bateman QB Nolan Watrin carries on a family tradition: Varsity Letters’ BCSSFA Player of the Week leads Double-A in both passing yards and picks for No. 2-ranked Timberwolves!
ABBOTSFORD — When opposition coaches sit down in the film room to do their pre-game due diligence, they all arrive at a point where they see just how natural the kid wearing No. 3 for the Robert Bateman Timberwolves looks whether he’s commanding the huddle at quarterback or making a big play on defence from […]
Fighting Irish making O’Hagan their fortress! No. 1-AAA Vancouver College stays perfect at 5-0 following shutout win over Seaquam Seahawks!
VANCOUVER — In case you’re wondering, it’s been 749 days since the Vancouver College Fighting Irish last lost a football game.That’s over two years and counting, and although we know the pandemic wiped out the entire 2020 season, the smart money — based on the way the Irish has picked up in 2021 where it […]
No. 3 AAA Notre Dame does it again on defence! After 34-0 win over South Delta, 5-0 Jugglers have still not allowed a single point!
TSAWWASSEN — If you want to let the numbers do the speaking, then the Notre Dame Jugglers did to the host South Delta Sun Devils what they have done to every team the East Vancouver school has faced this season.No. 3-ranked Notre Dame, en route to winning all five of its games by shutout this […]
Earl Marriott senior Armaan Gill, Grade 9 Cameron Boyes enjoy special moments as Mariners top Frank Hurt Hornets, move to 2-0 in AAA Pacific!
SURREY — Armaan Gill, like so many other Class of ’22 B.C. high school football seniors, had his Grade 11 season snatched away in 2020 by the global pandemic.So you have to know that every moment is being savoured by the current crop of Grade 12s, and on Saturday, Gill didn’t waste a single moment.Gill, […]
FINAL: Varsity Letters’ 10.08.21 B.C. High School Football Report, Friday Night Lights LATE-NITE edition!
LANGLEY — Welcome to another addition of the 2021 Varsity Letters B.C. High School Football Report for the Thanksgiving Day long weekend.Keep checking back on this post throughout the evening as we continue to update games from around the province and remember that the records you see for all of the teams is their conference […]
Winless in 2019-20, new-look Trinity Western men’s basketball debuts in style as Q, Mace and the Spartans upset Calgary Dinos 93-84 at the LEC!
LANGLEY — There was a sense of the surreal in the air Thursday night at the Langley Events Centre.Just 96 fans, watching the first university basketball game held in the facility since Feb. 8. 2020, in what would officially be its smallest sell-out crowd ever.No one else was watching because there was no livestream outside […]
Even after two lost seasons, G.W. Graham’s Vinny Branauer a hard secret to keep, Grade 11 rush end has 18 sacks over first five AAA games for No. 5 Grizzlies!
CHILLIWACK — Vincent Branauer knows that if he keeps doing what he has been doing over the first month-plus of the 2021 B.C. high school football season, chances are he won’t exactly be a secret to opposition defensive offensive line coaches for much longer.And the same goes for university football recruiters.Yet in the rarest of […]