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Gonzaga her future, but Wolfram keeps eyes focused on helping Titans to a...
Emma Wolfram has already seen the B.C. senior girls Triple A basketball championships through two very different sets of eyes. There were the ones in 2011 that belonged to an immensely talented but...
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Kelly Olynyk: Our Head of the Class ’09 honoree reaches superstar status with...
If Kelly Olynyk knew that it was going to be as simple as growing out his hair to shoulder length and snapping on a 1970s-vintage head band, he had have done it years ago. Voila, the feel-good story of...
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It’s Head of the Class season: New group of 2013 honourees will join alums...
VANCOUVER — Here in the sports department at The Province, when it comes to our coverage of high school and university sports in B.C., it’s all about a four-season labour of love. First comes the fall...
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B.C. hoops all-star weekend: New Gaucho Hart caps prep career at Langley,...
High school basketball all-star weekend is upon us. Here’s my package to prep you for the big games. First a feature on Immacualta’s go-to-guy Alex Hart, who made his NCAA Div. 1 choice. Also, there’s...
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South Kamloops product Kelly Olynyk leaves Zags, declares himself for...
Kelly Olynyk, a former Head of the Class honoree by The Province, and one of the most dominant players in the history of BC high school basketball, announced Friday that he will skip his senior season...
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The Province’s Head of the Class Part 3: A look back at some of our most...
HEAD OF THE CLASS, A LOOK BACK The 2013 Head of the Class section will be published in June 17. Go on line to watch the third part of our three-part tribute to some of the more famous alums of the past...
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Husband, coach, mentor, player, DAD: Ken Olynyk’s basketball life defined by...
It was really nothing more than an early pit stop along a coaching road that has stretched an entire generation and touched on parts of five decades. But even back in late 1970′s, in the infancy of his...
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Alex Hart
ALEX HART BASKETBALL SCHOOL: Immaculata (Kelowna) FRESHMAN’S FUTURE: California-Santa Barbara Golden State Warriors superstar guard Stephen Curry would be heartened to know that it’s not just guards...
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Emma Wolfram and Maya Olynyk
EMMA WOLFRAM, MAYA OLYNYK BASKETBALL SCHOOL: South Kamloops FRESHMAN’S FUTURE: Gonzaga, Saskatchewan Maya Olynyk knew the day was going to come, and even though it now has, the star guard with the...
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NBA Draft 2013: Kelly Olynyk breaks it down with Grantland’s Bill Simmons,...
The NBA draft is just days away. South Kamloops and Gonzaga alum Kelly Olynyk sits down with ESPN hoop heads to chat about a bright future. It’s all here …
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Kelly Olynyk: Cross-continent flight brings Kamloops star back home for 2013...
VANCOUVER — It’s only a grind if you don’t love it, and Kelly Olynyk loves it. “It’s actually been more of a journey than a grind,” the 7-footer from Kamloops said late Tuesday night after a flight...
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South Kam’s Kelly Olynyk now a Boston Celtic, and B.C.’s highest-ever NBA...
Kelly Olynyk helped make Canadian basketball history on Thursday, and now he gets his chance to help the NBA’s most storied franchises recapture some of its past glories. The South Kamloops Secondary...
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The 10 O’Clock: Olynyk impresses at NBA summer league, Mantle hits them out...
As sports editor, I have to give a bit of thought to what’s going on in the world. And one of the worst days of the year in sports is coming up: next Monday. There’s no NHL, no NBA, no NFL and not...
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South Kam’s Olynyk getting top reviews from ESPN’s Bill Simmons, Celtics’...
Love the vibe that Kelly Olynyk has already established in Boston as the latest first-round pick of the Celtics. In fact South Kamloops’ finest was one of the topics on the B.S. Report, the...
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Clan men’s basketball 2013-14: Gonzaga first step as Simon Fraser hoops looks...
BURNABY — James Blake is anticipating calling a time-out not too soon after the opening tip on Friday evening, as much to re-confirm the excitement he has seen over his team’s first nine practices as...
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Quinn Keast’s ‘No Regrets’ mantra at heart of fund-raiser featuring Sacre and...
NORTH VANCOUVER — You can’t espouse a personal mantra so simple and direct without writing from the heart, and for Quinn Keast, who knew no better way to express his thoughts and dreams, scribbling the...
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Crusaders-Dawgs, Rainmakers-Knights match up in Super Saturday finals at LEC
LANGLEY — Final Four Friday is over, and it’s not only Vancouver, Surrey and Burnaby set to battle for titles at Telus B.C. senior boys Double and Triple A championships on Saturday night. Prince...
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PODCAST: Varsity Letters chats with TWU’s Roxburgh, UBC’s Huband, Pitt’s Todd
Welcome to another episode of Varsity Letters, Canada’s only exclusive university and high school sports podcast. This week, Howard Tsumura’s talks with: 1. Trinity Western Spartans women’s head soccer...
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Young Kelowna Owls look for hard-court wisdom, perched for success at Tsumura...
LANGLEY — It may be cliche to talk of high school basketball programs being cyclical in nature, but there’s nothing old hat about spotting one of those cycles in its infancy and taking a front-row seat...
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TSUMURA: On a night of No. 1 vs. 2, here’s why I’ve always loved high school...
PORT COQUITLAM — I love high school basketball so much that over the years, I’ve come to realize that I even treasure the time leading up to a big game, those solitary moments spent driving to a gym,...
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The Morning Skate, April 2: Another banner for Kesler, a playoff berth for...
Few things are more encouraging than the turnaround Willie Desjardins and the Canucks have managed this year, but here’s one: The turnaround in Utica. The AHL Comets became the first Western Conference...
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The Morning Skate, Sept. 11: Skipping the GranFondo, surfing the couch the...
My wife’s riding the RBC GranFondo Whistler this weekend. It’s, like, hundreds of kilometres to Whistler (give or take), and she’s going all that way on a bicycle. The start of the RBC GranFondo...
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The Morning Skate, Dec. 11: Sensational Sedins, Surrey’s Edmonton Oiler, and...
Yesterday, before I left the office, I made my NFL pool picks. I need to preface this by saying that the Gipper Pool is not an easy pool. If it were straight-up — you know, pick the winner — that would...
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Olynyk, CIS hoops ambassador and Boston Celtic, could have been a UBC...
Kelly Olynyk can see the day coming when a player from Canada’s top university basketball league finds regular employment in the NBA. “It’s going to be big when it happens, and I think it’s going to...
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The Afternoon Skate, Feb. 17: How to label Canucks’ twins, plus hot Johnny...
“They’re second-line players,” someone told me at Rogers Arena on Monday night. “That’s all they are.” That would be Daniel Sedin, who spent much of the season among the NHL’s top 10 scorers, and his...
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Kelly Olynyk steps up to trumpet UBC’s Final 8 hoops week, sees CIS stars...
BURNABY — Kelly Olynyk can see the day coming when a player from Canada’s top university basketball league finds regular employment in the NBA. “It’s going to be big when it happens, and I think it’s...
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Howie’s Hamper 02.21.16 edition: The Province’s top university sports moments...
Here’s our look at the weekend’s top half-dozen university sports moments involving our local schools: 1. HEAD OF THE CLASS Two former members of The Province’s Head of the Class were front and centre...
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A different Chase: Abby’s Claypool pours home points, has Panthers in pursuit...
ABBOTSFORD — About the only thing that Chase Claypool wasn’t able to catch over the course of his eye-popping senior football campaign as the superstar wide receiver with the Abbotsford Panthers was...
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CIS Final 8: Kamloops’ TRU WolfPack draw defending champ Carleton at...
They’ve got a player from war-torn Ukraine, another from the West Indies nation of Antigua via a tiny university in Alabama, and a hometown hero who has developed into one of the very best players in...
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The Afternoon Skate, April 26: Still not watching the NHL playoffs,...
Man, you people are cranky. Where’s the love for the NHL? For hockey? You know, that sport you were born to play, to obsess over? Weren’t you born with skates on? I’ve heard that. So what happened? I...
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