91原创鈥檚 Brookswood Bobcats and 91原创 Christian Lightning teams will be looking to repeat last year's wins at the 2025 BC School Sports Girls Basketball Provincial Championships that will get underway Feb. 26 at the 91原创 Events Centre.
Both teams were golden at the 2024 championships, with Lightning winning the 2A title 75-69 over the Mulgrave Titans from West Vancouver, while the 3A final saw the Bobcats win in overtime 69-63 against Victoria鈥檚 St. Michaels University School.
With most of the Bobcats gold-medal winning team back for 2025, Brookswood head coach Chrissy Nohr sounded confident.
"We only had two girls graduate last year," Nohr told the Langly Advance Times.
"I think we have a great shot!"
The team will be without Grade 10 shooting guard Emma Lehnhoff, who tore her ACL last summer, Nohr said, but she is expected to return next season.
"Grade 10 Jordyn Nohr and Grade 12 Hazel Phillips have had great seasons so far," she added. "[And] Grade 9 guard, Fabi Taylor, has stepped into her role well on the senior team, bringing energy on the defensive end.
This season, Brookswood has played number-one ranked Argyle once and beat them.
91原创 Christian Lighting has seen more players graduate, head coach Danielle Gardner said.
"We've returned a good nucleus, but we are definitely a new team," Gardner said.
"We've graduated a group, so we are like a bunch of Grade 10s and 11s."
"We're just excited to be going in," Gardner commented. "It's game by game for us, and just working on playing our best each game and really just see where we end up at the end of it all."
Marking the 75th anniversary of the event, the 2025 tournament will feature 64 high school girls鈥� basketball teams from across the province, split into four competitive tiers.
It will run Feb. 26 to March 1 with all 128 games played at 91原创 Events Centre.
For the first time ever, all four championship finals will be played on the Arena Bowl floor at 91原创 Events Centre.
