Gallery: Manitoba High School 2023 AAAA Provincial Basketball Championship

As the defending provincial AAAA champs, the Dakota Lancers' varsity girls team held onto its title Monday night after a 67-43 victory at Investors Group Athletic Centre against the Garden City Gophers.

In the varsity boys game, the No. 2-seeded St. Paul’s Crusaders captured their second consecutive provincial title with an 86-74 triumph over the unbeaten and top-seeded Sturgeon Heights Huskies before a raucous gathering of about 2,500 fans at IGAC.

Photographer John Woods captured the action at the games.

Dakota’s Fust sisters top high school coaches poll, lead Lancers to provincial tourney

There are the teams lifted up from mediocrity by their star players and then there are the talent-laden clubs that become nearly impossible to beat because of their top guns.

Winnipegger gets high marks on and off court

Claire Signatovich is accustomed to doing things well.

Shawn Maranan leading the U of W Wesmen to their first national championship in three decades

It was 2018 and Shawn Maranan couldn’t seem to catch a break.

A great time for Manitoba athletes at Canada Winter Games

Team Manitoba athletes will look back fondly at their last two weeks at the 2023 Canada Winter Games in Prince Edward Island.

Healthy Bisons looking for upset against No. 2-ranked Cougars

Raya Surinx was heralded as one of the top first-year players in Canada West when she started the 2022-23 women’s volleyball season with the University of Manitoba Bisons.