SOPHIE DE GOEDE RUGBY/BASKETBALL SCHOOL: Oak Bay (Victoria) FRESHMAN’S FUTURE: Queen’s Her dad captained Canada at the first Rugby World Cup. Her mom was the first captain of the Canadian women’s rugby team. With that kind of lineage, it’s no cliche to say that Sophie de Goede was born to play rugby. What’s fact is that the…
COQUITLAM — Holding a 16-0 record and a No. 1-ranking in the world of B.C. senior girls varsity basketball might make you the favourites in eyes of everyone. Yet Victoria’s Oak Bay Breakers are keeping their edge on the road to March Madness by subscribing to a very different theory, one which happens to cast…
Ask Brendan Hoff why he moved away from home in Campbell River to relocate to Victoria for his final two years of high school, and he’ll tell you that it was for months like this one. June of senior year is a time of final exams, commencement and grad weekends, but in the case of…
VANCOUVER — Each year, in addition to naming our Player of the Year, the selection committee of the B.C. Secondary Schools Girls Basketball Association picks its Super 16, a listing of players it feels are the best group of players each year the province. So for the third straight year, in alphabetical order, here is…
LANGLEY — The big question heading into the 2015 Telus B.C. senior girls Triple A basketball championships was, which teams would knock off one of the field’s vaunted big four off its pedestal, keeping it from an appearance on Final Four Friday. Well the answer following four quarterfinal games Thursday at the Langley Events Centre…