Fraser Valley's Deanna Tuchscherer and the rest of the Cascades have their highest national ranking in a decade this week at No. 2 in the latest U SPORTS national poll. (Photo by Tanner Geringer property of UFV Cascades athletics 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Made-in-B.C. and ranked No. 2 in the nation! Here’s three big reasons the Fraser Valley Cascades could be Bronze Baby contenders!

ABBOTSFORD — Ten years after, there’s a new band of basketball teammates shining the spotlight on the Cascades’ women’s basketball program at the University of the Fraser Valley.Precisely one decade after its most successful Canada West regular season, one it which it went 18-4 and was perched wire-to-wire within the top four of the U […]

Fraser Valley's Taylor Claggett is headed into her senior season with the Cascades relishing the experiences of her team's recent trip to India (left, with teammate Amanda Thompson). (Photos property UFV athletics 2019. All rights reserved)
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A Passage To India: The travels of UFV senior Taylor Claggett yield new perspectives as Cascades star preps for a torch-passing season

ABBOTSFORD — So many time-honoured adages centre around the fact that greatness remains elusive without first taking a willing step outside of your comfort zone.Taylor Claggett wants to lead her team to the top of the Canadian university basketball mountain this coming spring, so maybe it was fitting that she stepped outside of hers earlier […]

Nikki Cabuco of Coquitlam's Dr. Charles Best Blue Devils capped her high school career off in fashion Thursday in PoCo, then shared a moment with coach Anthony Beyrouti. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca 2019. All Rights Reserved)
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Best’s Nikki Cabuco: A chapter defined by her tenacity and character gets fitting all-star close ahead of bold new journey with UFV Cascades

PORT COQUITLAM — If you have annually judged our best players by the number of appearances they make in the provincial championship tournament over the course of their high school careers, you’d have missed her.

Increased confidence in her overall game was apparent Tuesday in the play of St. Thomas Aquinas' Grade 10 forward Jessica Clark (right), here guarding G.W. Graham's Aliza Dueck in the Futures All-Star game played at St. Thomas More in Burnaby. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of VarsityLetters.ca)
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FUTURES PHENOMS: Rowell and Clark highlight all-star undercard; Tuchscherer, Cabuco, Kamstra, Munie, Forsyth also impress

BURNABY — The format in play for 2018 Fraser Valley vs. Lower Mainland girls high school all-star games not only affords a fitting chance to say farewell to some of B.C.’s best graduating seniors.