It was a golden trip to Calgary for a trio of Delta basketball standouts.
Camryn Tait (Seaquam), Syra Toor (Seaquam) and Zoe Millette (South Delta) helped Team B.C. capture gold at Basketball Canada’s U15 National Championships at the University of Calgary.
B.C. capped a perfect run with a 73-51 win over Quebec in the championship game. The result came on the heels of a thrilling 65-60 upset victory over top ranked Ontario in the semi-finals.
Tait and Toor had significant roles as aged up Grade 9s with the Seahawks senior girls team last season that reached the quarter-finals of the B.C. AAAA Championships and will be a provincial contending force over the next three years. They were also members of Seaquam’s provincial junior girls championship team in 2022 as Grade 8s.
Millette helped the Sun Devils reach the B.C. Junior Girls Invitational Championships last March.
B.C. opened the championships with a 79-31 win over Prince Edward Island. Toor and Tait had 11 and 10 points respectively, while Millette chipped in with seven.
Two more victories against Newfoundland (75-70) and Nova Scotia (71-49) sent B.C. to the semi-finals where Tait hauled in a team-high 13 rebounds and added eight points. Toor also had eight points.
Tait added 10 more boards in the final and was named to the tournament’s first all-star team.
