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It's official! School Sports Tournaments are BACK!
Thanks everyone for your support this week and to the Ministry of Education and stakeholders for being open to constant dialogue this week to understand the issue. We look forward to continuing working with you moving forward.
As we transition from fall to winter sports, remember, students who participate in multiple high school sports often become more well-rounded adults. Also, studies show that multiple-sport participants have fewer injuries than those students who focus on the same sport all year.
The Ministry's bulletin has been released and we can confirm that effective Saturday, Feb 19, school sport events can now operate at 50% of normal operating capacity. We will work with our member schools and venues on this, but spectators will be permitted within these limits.
SARGE!
The teams may change from year to year, but one thing does not. Walter "Sarge" Becker will be on the field, without fail, officiating the BC Championship.
He has done so, every year, for more than two decades, part of his 50 years of service to BCSS.
Thank you, Sarge!
If anybody needs further evidence on the power and impact of
#schoolsport
, look no further. Star QB of the winning team, just moments after winning the
@SUBWAYCanada
Bowl. When seeing this, we can only feel positive and optimistic about our youth and tomorrow's leaders.
It is one thing to be a COACH, another thing to be a MENTOR, but a completely different thing to be a LEADER. We are proud to have thousands of coaches, mentors, and leaders working with our student-athletes. Coaches, thank you for everything you do for BC high school sports!!
As it pertains to today's updates from Dr. Henry; we are expecting an updated bulletin from the Ministry of Education, with clarity on the K-12 Guidelines (specifically spectators) before the end of day. We will certainly provide more information as soon as its available.
When your school wins it’s first AAA combined banner and the grade 12’s call an meeting to pay tribute to their teammates and coaches!
Winning is nice but the real reason school sport is so powerful is it helps transform our young people into quality citizens and great leaders!
Thank you to our teacher sponsors, athletic directors and teacher coaches that keep our school sport community growing. We appreciate the work you put in both on the field of play and in the classroom
#internationalteachersday
We are down to the final four at BC Place! Here’s the updated 2022 ‘AAA’ BCSS Football Championship bracket— who are you rooting for to win it all?! Click the link in our bio to purchase tickets on Ticketmaster for the semi-final & final! We hope to see you there!
@BCHSFB
BC School Sports and Langley Events Centre (
@LangleyEvents
) are pleased to announce a partnership that will see the BC School Sports Girls and Boys Basketball Championships hosted at the LEC through at least the 2024-2025 academic year. Read full release:
BIG NEWS! We are so excited to announce that the Subway Bowl (
@SUBWAYCanada
) on Dec 4 and the semi-final on Nov 27, will be played at
@bcplace
. Thank you to our longtime partners at PavCo in making sure this happens. See you all there!
Full Release:
One of the best scenes in all of high school sports. The start of a XC race. BCSS Cross Country Championship Race presented by
@SUBWAYCanada
. Thanks also to
@CityofVancouver
@SportHostingVan
for your support of this amazing event.
Everyone waiting very (im)patiently for the kickoff to the high school football season! With 2 exhibition games Thursday and 4 more on Friday, the wait is almost over! The last BCSS high school football games were played November 30, 2019! That's 642 days! We are ready!
(1/2) Today, Dr. Henry announced that child and youth sports tournaments in the community can resume effective February 1, 2022.
The current prevention measures for K-12 schools continue to require extracurricular sports tournaments to REMAIN PAUSED.
We salute
@SteveNash
on his induction into the
@Hoophall
. Despite 8 All-Star games and 2 MVPs, he never forgot where he came from or the people who helped along his journey. He is an amazing example for our student-athletes. Competitiveness and Class exemplified. Congrats Steve!
The Coliseum at
@PNE_Playland
is set and ready to go for the BCSS Wrestling Provincial Championship that starts tomorrow. Can’t wait to see the very best wrestlers in the province tomorrow, representing their schools! Spectators welcome.
#schoolsport
#bannerseason
BC School Sports is thrilled to share the news of the remarkable increase in student-athlete participation during the 2022-2023 academic year. Read full release:
The focus was rightly on the student-athletes last night, but not to be overlooked was the first all-female crew for a BCSS Provincial Basketball Final. These women did a fantastic job in a tight, high stakes game.
#hattip
#thanklessjob
@BasketballBC
Unfortunately, the Ministry of Education has decided make no changes to their K-12 Addendum, meaning school sports tournaments are prohibited moving forward, despite club/community tournaments starting on Feb 1.
#bced
Full Memo to Membership here:
BCSS honoured our 2022-23 Awards Recipients this past weekend. It was a privilege to hear each person's story and reinforce our shared belief in giving back to school sports.
Walter Becker received a Citation of Excellence Award in Officiating. Click our bio link to read more.
Are you kidding me?!?
The
@GrahamGrizzlies
FG attempt is blocked, and ends up in the hands of Mikey Joseph, who takes it all the way to the house!
@vcfootball
up 13-6 going into the fourth quarter
Sukh Chungh, Isaiah Guzylak-Messam, and Jacob Scarfone of the
@BCLions
are here tonight at
@BCPlace
for the 2022
@BCHSFB
Championships! Big thanks to the Lions for their support of youth football. 🦁🏈
Congratulations to all graduating BCSS Student-Athletes and to the Class of 2020! BC School Sports wishes you all the best of luck in your future endeavors! # grad2020
Great moment over at the podium as Canadian Olympic Bronze Medalist
@EvanDunfee
presents the medals to the Senior Boys Racewalk Finalists!
🥇Lowell Solmes - Killarney
🥈Jackson Murray - Parkland
🥉Richard Lee - Mt. Douglas
#BCSSProvincials
Hearing this from so many schools across the province this week.
School sport is such a valued piece of the educational experience for so many young people.
Less than a minute to go, leading by one,
@vcfootball
came up with this stop on a
@GrahamGrizzlies
two-point attempt to clinch the 2022 BCSS 'AAA' Championship!
Big congrats to
@FarhanLaljiTSN
who last night won this prestigious award from Sport BC. In addition to his KidSport work, Farhan has for years, been a huge supporter of BCSS and school sport. Wonderful speech last night too on the power of sport! Well done Farhan!
We are down to the final four at BC Place! Here’s the updated 2022 ‘AA’ BCSS Football Championship bracket— who are you rooting for to win it all?!
Click the link in our bio to purchase tickets on Ticketmaster for the semi-final & final! We hope to see you there!
@BCHSFB
BCSS honoured our 2022-23 Awards Recipients this past weekend. It was a privilege to hear each person's story and reinforce our shared belief in giving back to school sports.
Howard Tsumura received the BCSS Media Person of the Year Award. Click our bio link to read more.
That does it for today's action at
@BCPlace
✅
The Vancouver College Fighting Irish advance to the AAA
@BCHSFB
Championship Game thanks to a decisive victory!
See you again next Saturday for Championship Day. 🏆
Congratulations to our next Merit Award recipient, Todd Clarke! 🎉🏆
Click here to watch Todd's award video:
Thank you, Todd for your incredible service to the student-athletes in Delta, and across the province. Congratulations on your BCSS Merit Award!
It’s all come down to this! Here are the 2022 BCSS Girls Volleyball Provincial Championships seeding lists and pools for all 4 tiers. Action begins next week. Who are you rooting for?
#bannerseason
Incredible approach and mindset from these young men. Great leadership from
@CCartwright67
and
@kssowls
. Taking an unfortunate situation, finding positivity and gratitude, and representing your school so well. Well done gents. Best of luck in the final weeks!
Congratulations to all our Fall BCSS Provincial Champions! A huge thanks goes out to the teachers, parents, administrators, officials and volunteers that make our events possible! We can't wait to see what the Winter season has in store! 🎉
This is awesome!!! Merritt Secondary and the entire community are going to be great hosts! Thanks for all your work! 7 days until teams start to arrive!
#bannerseason
#schoolsport
Your 2024 BCSS 4A BCSS Girls Basketball Champions, Seaquam. Congratulations! This concludes an insane day full of great basketball and amazing talent!
#BCSSProvincials
In light of the rapidly increasing actions to mitigate the spread of
#COVID19
, BC School Sports has IMMEDIATELY suspended the Spring Season of play and all school sport related activities. Please visit our website for more details.
Congratulations to Jackson Findlay for being a recipient of the BCSS Vancouver Sea to Sky Zone scholarship. As captain of
@VCIrishSports
football and basketball teams, Jackson has earned a provincial title, UWO football scholarship and multiple coaches awards. Congrats Jackson!
BCSS is proud to announce the 2023 Dave Gifford Memorial Scholarship recipients. This scholarship is awarded to the top female & male student-athlete in BC who excel at what they do, on and off the playing field. Congratulations to Kiera Pemberton on this admirable achievement!
CHAMPIONSHIP SATURDAY!! Don't miss the 2022 BCSS Football Championship Finals happening at
@bcplace
this Saturday December 3rd! Huge matchups with plenty of action to come at this iconic venue!
@BCHSFB
When you see pictures like these, you realize how much school sport means to the student-athletes. So great to have championships back. Great captures by the incomparable Paul Yates!
@BCSups
@BCPVPA
@bctf
@BCSTA_News
#6
Fleetwood Park ousts
#2
Oak Bay in a semifinal thriller to advance to the 4A final! An all-Surrey final tomorrow night against
#1
Semiahmoo — you don’t want to miss it!!
#BCSSProvincials
Your 2021-2022 BCSS 'AAA' Girls Rugby Champions,
@YaleLions
A dominant performance, defeating their 3 opponents by a combined score of 85-24 throughout the championships. The bar has been set for AAA Girls rugby in BCSS.
#bannerseason
@AbbotsfordSD
@BCRugbyNews
Divine Aniamaka of Pacific Academy sets an all-time meet record in the Sr. Boys Triple Jump after finishing with an impressive result of 15.42m! We love seeing moments like this happen!
#BCSSProvincials
Join us in congratulating our Honour Award recipient, Kerry Taylor! 🥳
Click here to watch Kerry's award video:
Congratulations Kerry and thank you on a lifetime of service to school sport.
(1/2) Our Board of Directors has had to make the unfortunate decision to cancel all BCSS spring season of play Provincial Championships. All school sport related activity remains suspended until further notice. We are saddened for our seniors, most of all.
Last BCSS Boys Basketball rankings of the 2022-23 season as we anticipate the Provincial Championships next week!
*Note that these are not the Provincial Championship rankings. They are to be announced this Sunday on our YouTube at 3:30pm on the official Seeding Show!
A strong performance throughout the tournament ends in a provincial title for Centennial as they captured the coveted blue banner this past weekend in Kelowna. Congratulations on becoming the 2023 BCSS 3A Girls Soccer Champions!
#BCSSProvincials
That’s game! The Mulgrave Titans capture 2023 BCSS 2A Girls Basketball Championship title after a 91-53 win against the Pacific Christian Pacers!
#BCSSProvincials
Join us in congratulating Byron Jack for being our first Coach of the Year Award recipient!! 🎉
Click here to watch Byron's award video:
Congratulations Byron!