Seaquam's Camryn Tait is slowed by Brookswood's Hannah Easton during TBI Super 16 Championship game 12.14.24 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Ryan Molag property Langley Events Centre-TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI 2024: Despite MVP Jordyn Nohr’s stirring second half for No. 2 Brookswood, it’s No. 1 Seaquam’s fast start and late poise that carry the day as Seahawks repeat as Super 16 champs!

LANGLEY — On a blustery, wind-whipped Saturday, power outages across the region threatened the cancellation of the eagerly-anticipated battle between the No. 1 Seaquam Seahawks and the No. 2 Brookswood Bobcats in the final of the Tsumura Basketball Invitational’s Super 16 championship final at the Langley Events Centre.Yet by the time the sun had set […]

Seaquam's Syra Toor splits the defence of the Yale Lions during Day 3 Final Four play at the 2024 B.C. senior girls basketball championships March 1, 2024 at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Dan Kinvig 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Girls 2024: As Quad-A B.C. champ Seaquam finally achieves its ‘veteran’ status, North Delta’s Seahawks bring new level of maturity as Super 16’s No. 1-seeded team!

NORTH DELTA — For it’s entire existence as an up-and-coming group of hoops wunderkinds, the Seaquam Seahawks have had a built-in motivation to carve a niche of their own in the B.C. girls basketball world.Checks its roster from the B.C. junior champs of 2022 right through the B.C. senior Quad-A champs of this past season, […]

Seaquam's Mackenzie Henderson is one of a massive number of returning players for the Seahawks, who last season won both the TBI and B.C. Quad-A titles at the Langley Events Centre. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2023. All Rights Reserved)
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TBI Girls 2024: Top to bottom, our Super 16 and Select 16 brackets combine to give the Tsumura Basketball Invitational its strongest overall field ever! The best of 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A in one place! Full draws are right here!

LANGLEY — The senior boys draws for the 2024 Tsumura Basketball Invitational was released Wednesday (Oct. 16).Today, it’s time for the release of the girls TBI draws for both the Super 16 and Select 16 events, each set to begin a four-day run Dec. 11 at the Langley Events Centre.This year, we asked for input […]

Riverside's Avery Sussex (left) and Riverside's Grace Bradshaw turned in two of reporter Howard Tsumura's most impressive moments over the course of the BC senior girls high school basketball championships. And none of them had anything to do with statistics. (Photos by Wilson Wong and Garrett James property of Langley Events Centre, TFSE 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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The story of Grace and Avery: On a red-letter day for BC girls hoop, two high school seniors show, through their incredible selflessness, why our great game has never stopped doing what it does best!

LANGLEY — There is a good case to make for Saturday’s menu of four B.C. senior girls basketball provincial championship finals as the stuff which constitutes the greatest single day in the history of the girls high school game in this province.The Double-A, Triple-A and Quad-A games were all decided by six points, each characterized […]

All season, he told his players that basketball is a game of runs and to never stop believing. On Saturday, Seaquam head coach Lucky Toor was wearing the spoils of victory as his Seahawks became the first team in Delta history to win a B.C. senior girls basketball championship title. (Photo by Garrett James property of Langley Events Centre 2024. All Rights Reserved)
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BC Girls Quad-A final: In a zone of their own, Seaquam rallies with a perfect fourth quarter to stun defending champs & No. 1 seed Riverside, becoming Delta’s first-ever senior girls provincial hoop champs!

No. 3 SEAQUAM 79 No. 1 RIVERSIDE 73By Howard TsumuraLANGLEY — It’s one thing to have a secret weapon you’re pretty sure can get you out of just about any sticky situation you might run into on the basketball court.It’s another thing entirely to have the patience which allows you to actually keep that secret, […]

Argyle's Nathalie Francis (centre, 22) scored a game-high 24 points, yet Seaquam's Amar Thiara and the rest of Seahawks (pictured here in Dec. 15 game at TBI) rallied to earn a last-ditch berth to the provincials on Tuesday at Port Coquitlam's Riverside Secondary. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Seaquam girls end three decades of Big Dance silence! Comeback win over Argyle in last-chance clash sends Seahawks, along with Yale Lions, into B.C. Quad-A championships!

PORT COQUITLAM — They hadn’t punched their tickets to the Big Dance in so long that even the school’s historians were having a hard time trying to figure out when the last time the senior girls basketball team from Seaquam Secondary last qualified for the B.C. championships.One thing was certain, however, as the fourth-quarter clock […]

Seaquam's Amar Thiara (left) looks to dish in the face of defensive pressure from Argyle's Nathalie Francis during the Tsumura Basketball Classic in December of 2021. A re-birth in girls basketball at Seaquam has both its senior and junior varsity teams each sitting in the Top 10 rankings as March Madness approaches. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2022. All Rights Reserved)
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Seaquam revels in a girls basketball renaissance! The Seahawks of Sunshine Hills bring long-lost, late-1980’s vibe back to their North Delta neighbourhood!

NORTH DELTA — When it comes to senior varsity girls basketball, the high school from that North Delta neighbourhood known as Sunshine Hills is finding out how good it feels to find its place in the sun.When rankings were released earlier this week, not only was the Seaquam Seahawks senior girls team ranked at No. […]

Vancouver College running back Tommy Carvaolho, picutred here in the team's season-opening win over Carson Graham, rushed six times for 46 yards in a shutout win over visiting Seaquam. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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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 […]

Varsity Letters' first B.C. High School Football Players of the Week for the 2021 season are G.W. Graham's Grade 11 defensive end Vinny Branauer (left, 75) and Rutland Grade 10 quarterback Ty Walker. (Photos by Joanne Hewitt (left) and Martyne Vallerand respective property of G.W. Graham and Rutland athletics 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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Varsity Letters 09.21.21 B.C. High School Football Players of the Week: Rutland’s Walker, GWG’s Branauer take top honours!

B.C. high school football is finally back into the full swing of things, and with that, Varsity Letters is honouring the top performances of each weekend by naming a winner and a runner-up as our Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week.Coaches should remember that nominations from each weekend’s games need to be sent to […]

Despite the team's early-season carousel at quarterback, Carson Graham is 1-1 following a gutsy second-half performance by senior pivot Logan Mellish, a fact that has Eagles' head coach Brian Brady beaming with pride. Carson Graham topped Hansdsworth in the annual Buchan Bowl game Friday morning. (Photo by Howard Tsumura property of Varsity Letters 2021. All Rights Reserved)
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FINAL EDITION: 09.10.21 Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football report: Friday Night Lights late-night edition!

Welcome to Week 1 of Varsity Letters’ B.C. High School Football ReportAs this is the first time we’ve posted with a full schedule of games since late in 2019, remember that in order to read about all of the contests played in our Friday Night Lights editions, you’ve got to keep checking back throughout the […]