PORT COQUITLAM — When an informal coaches poll last spring installed the Terry Fox Ravens as the team to beat in 2017 by virtue of their No. 1 spot in Varsity Letters’ preseason Big 5 Triple A football rankings, head coach Martin McDonnell and the team were more than a little surprised.
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09.15.17: Varsity Letters BC High School Football report Friday Night Lights edition
We’re final for our Friday Night Lights edition! Spread the word through Twitter and Facebook and find us later in the day for our Saturday Night edition!
Proud to present my picks for The Province’s 2017 Head of the Class
VANCOUVER — Yes, it was hard to leave The Province after 26 years this past January. It was easy, however, to say ‘Yes’ when asked by my old employer to continue steering and guiding what I feel has become the benchmark in terms of high school sports journalism in our country.
Tsumura Basketball boys 2017 invitational to feature cream of next season’s 4A/3A crop
NORTH DELTA — Only 212 more days!The 2017 boys Tsumura Basketball Invitational doesn’t tip off its three-day run at the Langley Events Centre until Dec. 7.But that doesn’t mean we can’t unveil the 16-team field now.
UBC football: QB Parker Simson? Touted two-sport star leaves defence for understudy pivot role
VANCOUVER — Parker Simson came to UBC hoping to get his foot in the door with both the football and basketball programs.
UBC gets Grant the Great! Kelowna’s Quad-A MVP Grant Shephard chooses ‘Birds
(This is a complete write-through of the earlier story Varsity Letters broke on UBC’s signing of former Kelowna Owls basketball star Grant Shephard. There’s more quotes from all concerned including Shephard’s former high school coach Harry Parmar, and additional reporting on the impact his arrival could have on the program)VANCOUVER — Even after an inglorious end to its 2016-17 U Sports […]
Quad A: Gators, Owls clash reminds us all why we care so much about our high school game
LANGLEY — Sometimes, on those nights when the basketball gods deem it time, the things that allow a most beautiful game to achieve a heightened state of existence unfold before our eyes and remind us why we care so much.
Quad A: Grove v. Kelowna, Ty v. Mace, a final that looks like “…a treat, a basketball treat”
LANGLEY — In their senior seasons, on the province’s two best teams, and now, facing each other in the final game of their respective high school basketball careers.Go on, say it: Today is the day for Ty Rowell vs. Mason Bourcier.
STA’s Fighting Saints cap dream season for girls basketball at North Van school
LANGLEY — They did not field a girls basketball team at the senior varsity level in 2016-17, but North Vancouver’s St. Thomas Aquinas Fighting Saints still had what could only be described as a dream hoops season.One week after the Fighting Saints won the B.C. Grade 9 title, they stepped up to an even bigger […]
FINAL: 03.01.17: Day 1 from the Telus B.C. girls basketball championships
It’s a wrap from Day 1 at the 2017 Telus BC girls high school senior varsity basketball championships.Here are game recaps from all 16 sudden-elimination contests. First we lead off with a look at Thursday’s schedule.DOUBLE AQUARTERFINALS12 p.m. — South Kamloops vs. Immaculta, 1:45 p.m. — Seycove vs. Ballenas, 3:30 p.m. — Vernon vs. Windsor; […]