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The Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers are this year’s AAA varsity football provincial champions, etching their names not only in the history books of B.C. high school sports, but in LT’s history by bringing home the school’s first senior varsity football provincial title.

On Nov. 30 at BC Place, the Cloverdale team defeated Abbotsford’s W.J. Mouat Secondary Hawks 26-21 in a hard-fought finale to secure the B.C. High School AAA banner. The nail-biting win came as a relief to the coaching staff while the thrill of victory overcame the Panthers on the field as the remaining seconds ticked down to zero.

“They were just going crazy, jumping up, hugging each other,” said assistant coach Jahnek Rai. “Some boys really felt the emotion of the moment because they really do put a lot of themselves into this – they push themselves in the classroom to be able to get out on the field, they practise every single day for two-and-a-half hours, they’re lifting weights in the off-season. They make a lot of sacrifices to be a part of something.

“We preach a lot in football about camaraderie, teamwork, putting your best effort in every single day and outcompeting yourself from the previous. And when you win in that fashion, it shows that hard work really does pay off.”

The Panthers entered the provincials ranked second overall, coming off of a nearly undefeated season with just one loss against Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Collegiate.

Many of this year’s Grade 11 and 12 teammates competed in last year’s provincials, where the Panthers fell to Vancouver College in the semifinals and watched the Shaughnessy school three-peat as varsity champions. That defeat fuelled the drive and determination of the returning players to avenge that loss and ensure a sense of focus throughout the provincials.

“It’s something they’d been talking about since August,” said Rai. “Vancouver College has been the gold standard, they’ve won the past three years at Grade 8, junior varsity and varsity levels.

“We tell the boys, whether it’s in life or football, failure is inevitable but it’s how you respond to it. Do you let what just happened define what you’re doing or do you retool and go back at it?”

The boys in green kicked off the post-season with a 58-0 victory over the Mission Secondary Roadrunners and went on to beat Vancouver’s Notre Dame 35-9 in the quarterfinal, leading to a semifinal rematch against their VC rivals.

While VC got a quick strike on them early, the Panthers kept their composure and rallied in a back-and-forth game, exchanging touchdowns through the third quarter and holding for a final score of 28-23.

“We were down early but the boys were like, ‘We’re still in this, we’re fine,’ and that temperament really helped us weather any kind of adversity that we faced this season, especially in that game,” said Rai. “To take them down twice in one year, especially since they’d been on that dominant multi-year win streak was a huge morale boost for us.”

That semifinal win turned out to be exactly what LT needed to propel them into the final, where W.J. Mouat tested their offensive and defensive lines on every play. While Tweedsmuir led 17-7 at halftime, Mouat put up 14 unanswered points in the third quarter, forcing the Panthers to claw their way back with a 24-yard field goal by running back Jared Harinen to make it a one-point game.

Halfway through the fourth quarter, LT defensive back Mekhi Mindingall took down Mouat quarterback Elijah Black in a crucial fourth down play for the Abbotsford team, turning the tide for Tweedsmuir to show their grit on the gridiron. Over the next six minutes, the boys pushed play after play up the field until quarterback Chase Thurston threw a touchdown pass to receiver Tristan Dominguez for the Panthers to lead 26-21.

Mouat prevented a two-point conversion, but on one of the next plays, Grade 10 defensive back Carter Gill picked off the ball for an interception, putting it back in the hands of Tweedsmuir for the remaining minute of play until the clock wound down to zero and the Panthers were officially champions.

“That last series was just everything we worked for,” said Rai. “They maintained their composure, they killed the time, they executed, and when the lights were the brightest, they jumped on it.

“We knew we were the underdogs going into it but we believed in each other. The camaraderie on this team is among the highest I’ve ever seen or been a part of.”

Rai lauded the commitment of the boys this season on and off the field, and as a former AA champion with Delta’s Seaquam Secondary in 2017, he knows the feeling of winning the big one and how important it was for the senior boys to take home the gold in their final year.

“I feel so happy that those seniors get to go on and they’ll always have that memory,” he said. “To finish your high school career on a triple A championship is a great ending.”

Congratulations to the Lord Tweedsmuir Panthers! Your 2025 AAA Varsity Football Provincial Champions!