Holy Cross junior boys<\/a> placed third at basketball provincials. The Crusaders advanced to the tournament semifinal but lost to Burnaby South Rebels, losers to Vancouver College Fighting Irish in the Feb. 24 final. Junior tourney all-stars included Holy Cross\u2019 Isaiah German (first team) and Udhav Juneja (second team).<\/p>\nLeChasseur said Holy Cross successes on the basketball court didn\u2019t develop overnight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like hard work, a lot of coaches and players putting in a lot of time on the court,\u201d he underlined. \u201cThis year\u2019s Grade 12 girls, they\u2019re a special group going all the way back to Grade 8. And we have a really strong junior girls team, too. Our girls program has been super competitive for quite a while now.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the boys side,\u201d LeChasseur added, \u201cthis year\u2019s junior boys won the Grade 8 provincials a couple years ago, and they\u2019re a strong group, really rolling.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, a lot of kids and coaches are working hard, and we\u2019re seeing the results.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone involved loves the new Holy Cross gym, officially opened in September. The building also includes a new weight room, classrooms, band room, choir room and other amenities, as part of phased reconstruction of the school property on 88 Avenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nice to have the brand-new facility, and that\u2019s something appealing to the kids, too, because they want to spend more time in this nice new gym, you know,\u201d LeChasseur said. \u201cThey\u2019re getting in here and getting their shots up and putting in a little extra time because it\u2019s a beautiful facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had our first B.C. Catholic tournament in the new facility this year and it was it was amazing, the atmosphere and the acoustics,\u201d LeChasseur added. \u201cI didn\u2019t think anything can get louder than our previous gym, but I think we broke the record, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Use of the new gym signals the end of the old one, opened in the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a sad day in a way,\u201d said the athletic director and coach, \u201cbecause we\u2019re going to be tearing down our old gym in the next few months. A lot about people have nostalgia about the old gym, the character of the old gym, so it\u2019s a weird transition to this beautiful new facility, which we\u2019re really thankful for and happy with, but we\u2019re also missing the character and the history of the old gym. It\u2019s seen a lot of games over the years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe stands in our old gym was around 450 (capacity), and now our new facility is 700 or so. (For games) we have court-side seats and our weight room overlooks the gym, so people can be up there watching in a VIP room and stuff. It\u2019s an amazing, top-notch experience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Unreal\u2019 basketball season at Surrey\u2019s Holy Cross school just ended Published 4:30 pm Thursday, March 12, 2026 It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":{"0":"post-533238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-surrey","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-surrey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}