Brian Seebaran — Killarney Cougars Basketball, 1992-93
Newspaper clippings from the Vancouver Sun and The Province, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Brian Seebaran played for the Killarney Cougars (Killarney Secondary School, Vancouver) in the 1992-93 B.C. high school basketball season. He won the scoring title — averaging 32.2 points per game, the highest average in Vancouver — and a two-sport athlete who also played cricket for Canada.
Sources found in the ProQuest BC Historical Newspapers archive (The Province 1894-2010; Vancouver Sun 1912-2010), Full credit to the original newspapers, with date and page given for every item. Items shown with a photograph are reproduced from original clippings; the rest await scans from microfilm.
On the cover — the 1993 Vancouver championships handbook
1993 VSSAA Senior Boys Basketball Championships — official handbook cover — February 10–13, 1993
Cover of the official handbook for the 1993 Vancouver Secondary Schools Athletic Association (VSSAA) Senior Boys Basketball Championships, held at Vancouver Technical Secondary School, February 10, 11, 12 and 13, 1993. The cover photograph is from the 1992 city championship game; its printed caption reads: "Rob McKee (Prince of Wales) rebounds over Brian Seebaran (Killarney) in the 1992 Championship Game." Brian Seebaran, in Killarney's dark number 15 jersey, was the face of the 1993 Vancouver playoffs alongside McKee — the two marquee players of the tournament.
Inside the handbook (p. 11) are the 1992 final league tables — the record of the 1991-92 season. In the East division, Brian Seebaran of Killarney finished as the city's top scorer: 386 points at 32.2 points per game, the highest average in either division (the West leader, Magee's Julian Bentall, averaged 23.3). Seebaran also pulled down 101 rebounds (8.4 per game). His Killarney teammates appear too: Jason Zoney (190 points; 62 assists) and Louis Mark (115 rebounds). Killarney finished second in the East at 10-2, behind John Oliver's 12-0. In the West, Rob McKee of Prince of Wales led all rebounders with 222 (18.5 per game) and scored 246 points.
Transcription (as printed):
Handbook p. 11 — “1992 Final Standings” (the Killarney-relevant tables, transcribed from the photograph; West leaders shown for context):
1992 Final Standings — East — AVERAGE POINTS: Brian Seebaran (Killarney) — 386 total points, 32.2 average; Artur Jarowicz (David Thompson) — 282, 25.6; Duan Tran (Windermere) — 209, 20.9; Swee Fah Chai (Van Tech) — 224, 20.4; Willie Loftus (John Oliver) — 178, 19.8; Tino Barbone (Britannia) — 235, 19.6; Petros Samaris (Gladstone) — 154, 19.2; Jason Zoney (Killarney) — 190, 17.3; Jose Rodriguez (Britannia) — 198, 16.5; Len Lee (John Oliver) — 191, 15.9.
East — AVERAGE ASSISTS (leaders and Killarney): Len Lee (John Oliver) — 83 total, 6.9 average; Steve Wong (Killarney) — 51, 5.7; Jason Zoney (Killarney) — 62, 5.6.
East — AVERAGE REBOUNDS (leaders and Killarney): Sasha Chukich (John Oliver) — 155 total, 12.9 average; Louis Mark (Killarney) — 115, 9.6; Brian Seebaran (Killarney) — 101, 8.4.
West leaders, for context: AVERAGE POINTS — Julian Bentall (Magee) — 256, 23.3. AVERAGE REBOUNDS — Rob McKee (Prince of Wales) — 222, 18.5.
FINAL TEAM STANDINGS — EAST: John Oliver 12-0; Killarney 10-2; Britannia 8-4; Van Tech 6-6; Windermere 3-9; David Thompson 3-9; Gladstone 0-12. WEST: Churchill 10-2; Prince of Wales 9-3; Magee 8-4; Lord Byng 7-5; King George 5-7; Charles Tupper 2-10; Point Grey 1-11.
Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20.
Source: VSSAA Senior Boys Basketball Championships handbook, 1993 (cover and p. 11).
The 62-point game
Vancouver Sun – Friday, February 26, 1993 – Sports p. D12 – "Seebaran ends hoop season with 60-point display"
High School Notes report by Alex Strachan on the end of Brian Seebaran's high school basketball career. In a back-door playoff game for the Lower Mainland senior boys triple-A tournament, McNair beat Killarney 117-80 — McNair's Josh Masters scored 38, 33 of them in the first half — while Killarney's high scorer was Brian Seebaran, with 62 points (the papers reported his total as 60). Down 30 at halftime and missing injured starters Jason Zoney and Louis Mark, Killarney coach Ted Cusick told his players to feed Seebaran every chance they got; McNair coach Paul Eberhardt's assistant noted Seebaran had scored 17 of Killarney's first 21 points, but McNair kept playing straight up. Eberhardt afterwards: "Obviously I'm pleased we won, but I'm also pleased that a kid like Seebaran could go out on that note." The full article text appears in the photograph above.
Transcription (as printed):
That may have looked like a misprint in Saturday’s paper, but it wasn’t.
McNair’s high scorer in a 117-80 backdoor playoff win against Killarney for the Lower Mainland senior boys triple-A basketball tournament was Josh Masters with 38 points (33 of them in the first half), while Killarney’s high scorer was Brian Seebaran, with 60.
60 points?
“McNair was playing a hell of a game,” explains Killarney coach Ted Cusick. “Every shot they took went in — even their subs were hitting threes. The other coach (McNair head coach Paul Eberhardt) and I just looked down the bench at each other and shook our heads.”
Faced with a 30-point deficit at halftime and injuries to key starters Jason Zoney and Louis Mark, Cusick was faced with a tough decision — accept defeat, but try and salvage something in the process.
“So I told the kids, ‘let’s get something out of this; let’s feed Brian every chance we get.’
With McNair leading 36-21 Eberhardt says his assistant coach noticed that Seebaran had scored 17 of Killarney’s first 21 points.
“He said maybe we should do something about that,” Eberhardt says, “but the way our own kids were scoring it was to our advantage to play straight up.
“Obviously I’m pleased we won, but I’m also pleased that a kid like Seebaran could go out on that note. He’s a nice kid and it was a nice way for him to end his season.”
Source: Vancouver Sun, Friday, February 26, 1993, sports section p. D12 (ProQuest BC Historical Newspapers pagination: p. 52).
The Province – February 21, 1993 – Page 57
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"38 / 60" mentioned in a North Shore Championships context — unclear from the snippet what 60 refers to. The Province's report of the game; a scan of this page is still to be added.
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Source: The Province, February 21, 1993, p. 57.
Feature articles
Vancouver Sun – Thursday, January 28, 1993 – Sports p. D11 – "Seebaran has no trouble balancing two balls"
Feature by Alex Strachan in the Sun's High School Report. Killarney's six-foot-four senior Brian Seebaran was averaging 30 points a game for the 13-13 Cougars while also captaining Canada's under-19 cricket team, with the junior world cricket championships in Denmark ahead that July. The article covers his start in basketball at age 12, his admiration for Larry Bird's team play, his quiet pre-game routine, and comments from Cougars coach Ted Cusick, who praised how Seebaran handed off easy shots to teammates rather than chasing points. Teammates named include point guards Jason Zoney, Steve Wong and Louis Mark, and forward Paul Sandhu. Seebaran hoped to study English and education at Simon Fraser University. In his own words, on the difference between his two sports: "Batting you get one chance. One mistake, and that's it. In basketball you can always come back." The standfirst headline and photo caption — "BRIAN SEEBARAN: two-sport threat on target at Killarney" — are the source of the feature's usual description. The full article text appears in the photograph above.
Transcription (as printed):
One is small and red and hard as a rock, and if it hits you in the head you’ll see stars for a week.
The other is big and orange and not so hard, and if it hits you in the head it’ll probably just roll out of bounds.
One is a cricket ball and the other is a basketball, and mixing the two is, well … different.
Nobody ever accuses Killarney senior Brian Seebaran of sticking out like a sore thumb while he’s racking up an average 30 points a game for the 13-13 Cougars, but then how many people know this natural at the jump shot is also captain of Canada’s under-19 cricket team?
A date at the junior world cricket championships in Denmark looms ahead in July, but for now basketball, friends and school are the priority, and not necessarily in that order.
Seebaran came to basketball as a 12-year-old and for someone gaining his growth early — he’s now six-foot three — basketball seemed natural. “I liked shooting,” he says of his early days, “and I was surprised I was pretty good.”
Right off the bat, you might say.
Seebaran feels a special affinity for now-retired Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird. He admires Bird’s ability to make his teammates around him play better, “the way he plays under pressure in clutch situations,” he says. “He reacts calmly to every situation and you never feel he’s out of a game.”
“The way it works with me, when I start, if I miss a few shots early I try not to let it bother me. He always stays centred, focused, no matter what is going on around him. Watching his games, it’s amazing how his teams always come back.”
“It’s difficult for me to say this as a father, but Brian has given us a lot of satisfaction.” — BEN SEEBARAN
Seebaran acknowledges a love for dance hall reggae — Cobra is a favorite act — and hopes to pursue a career in English and education at Simon Fraser University. Older brother Barry already attends SFU, plays basketball on SFU’s junior varsity squad and is a member of Canada’s senior national cricket team.
You might say cricket runs in the family.
Seebaran’s father Ben captained UBC’s cricket team from 1961 to 1964, and again from 1969 to 1973 after emigrating to Canada from his native Trinidad when he was 19. Brian had a bat thrust in his hand as a four-year-old and began smashing windows at a young age.
“It’s difficult for me to say this as a father, but Brian has given us a lot of satisfaction,” the elder Seebaran says. “He is a source of pleasure and delight to us.”
Cougars coach Ted Cusick echoes Seebaran’s sentiment. “He’s just the nicest kid in the world. He never has a harsh word for anyone,” he says. “Some kids, when they start scoring — especially if they star — get cranky when things don’t go their way. Brian’s not like that at all — he’ll hand off easy shots rather than take them himself. He’s basically well liked by his teammates.”
Cusick recalls an incident in Friday’s 74-64 loss to St. Thomas More — “He was smacked down on the floor right in front of me, in the middle of a shot,” he says. “I thought he might be hurt, but he just rolled over right in front of me and said ‘Did it go in?’ Not ‘Am I hurt?’ but ‘Did it go in?’ That’s the kind of kid he is.”
“I like to be by myself, alone,” Seebaran says of his pre-game routine. “I think it helps me focus on the game. If I’m with friends and we’re talking and having fun sometimes it’s difficult to get into the game.”
He stays close to his teammates off the court — point guards Jason Zoney, Steve Wong and Louis Mark (Killarney uses a three guard system) and alternate forward Paul Sandhu — and candidly admits his team needs a strong player up the middle for rebounds, even though they’ve already proven capable of springing a few upsets.
“We have a problem in our league because of the number of weak teams,” Cusick says. “It’s hard to leave him (Seebaran) in, but it’s tough not to. He has a chance to win the scoring title, and a scoring title looks awfully good on application forms for a scholarship, but there are times when it’s really difficult (leaving him in). I mean, not to single them out necessarily, but we beat Gladstone by 70 or 80 points. I was embarrassed.”
Leaving the star in an 80-point game is, um, just not cricket.
Seebaran laughs. “In cricket you don’t have as many chances to come back in,” he says, comparing the two sports. “Batting you get one chance. One mistake, and that’s it. In basketball you can always come back.
“I’ve never liked the attitude some people have when they say ‘I’m having a bad game,’ and the game isn’t even over yet. I always try to make the last shot of the game. And it’s amazing, you know, that last shot can be the most important one.”
Photo caption: BRIAN SEEBARAN: two-sport threat on target at Killarney.
Source: Vancouver Sun, Thursday, January 28, 1993, sports section p. D11 (ProQuest BC Historical Newspapers pagination: p. 51).
The Province – game reports and listings, 1992-93
The Province – Wednesday, January 27, 1993 – Page 53 – High School Notebook – "CAGEY CRICKETER"
Item in Howard Tsumura's High School Notebook in The Province. The clipping itself carries no printed date or page; the date and page were identified in October 2026 from ProQuest and newspapers.com listings showing this same column text on January 27, 1993, page 53 (previously filed as December 1992). Under the heading "CAGEY CRICKETER," Tsumura notes that Killarney senior forward Brian Seebaran "makes a habit of totals upward of 30 points a game" for the No. 24-ranked Cougars and "is acknowledged as one of B.C.'s top prep scorers" — but that he is also captain of Canada's under-19 national cricket team, set to compete for Canada at the World Cricket championships July 10-19 in Denmark, while until the middle of March "all the senior forward with the Killarney Cougars thinks about is basketball." The column's unforgettable headline story: the MEI-Abbotsford game halted and awarded to MEI after four live chickens were dropped from the gym ceiling in front of the MEI bench. The full column text appears in the photograph above.
Transcription (as printed):
Headline: “Chicken-dropping incident halts game” — Howard Tsumura’s High School Notebook, The Province. The full visible column is transcribed, in reading order:
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Actually, it was just another chapter in the senior boys’ basketball rivalry between Clearbrook’s MEI and Abbotsford.
As is tradition everytime the two Fraser Valley east-division teams play at Abby, Panther faithful flood the court with hundreds of rolls of toilet paper when their team scores its first points of the game.
On Saturday, however, things got out of hand when the No. 5-ranked Eagles (5-0) met Abby.
Referees awarded the game to MEI before the second-half tip off, with the Eagles leading 43-24, when, according to Eagles bench boss Arnold Dick, “Four chickens were dropped out of the ceiling in front of the MEI bench.”
At least one of the chickens, according to an MEI player, was still alive when it hit the floor of the gym.
CAGEY CRICKETER: Brian Seebaran has bats and wickets in the back of his mind, but until the middle of March, all the senior forward with the Killarney Cougars thinks about is basketball.
Seebaran, who makes a habit of totals upward of 30 points a game with the No. 24-ranked Cougars hoop squad, is acknowledged as one of B.C.’s top prep scorers. But he’s also the captain of Canada’s under-19 national cricket team. He competes for Canada at the World Cricket championships July 10-19 in Denmark.
TOURNAMENT TRAIL: Three of the top invitational basketball tournaments run Thursday through Saturday. On the senior girls’ side, Coquitlam’s Centennial hosts its 12-team Top 10 Shoot-Out, featuring No. 1 New Westminster, No. 3 Kelowna, No. 4 Mt. Baker, No. 6 Richmond, No. 8 Terry Fox and No. 10 Vernon. On the senior boys’ side, Pitt Meadows hosts a 12-team event that includes No. 3 Maple Ridge, No. 9 Argyle and No. 14 St. Thomas More. Also, Victoria’s St. Michael’s University School hosts an eight-team affair Friday and Saturday with No. 2 North Delta, No. 4 Richmond and No. 13 Vancouver College.
— Tsumura
Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20.
Source: The Province, Wednesday, January 27, 1993, p. 53, High School Notebook (Howard Tsumura). Date and page identified from listings, October 2026; the clipping itself carries no printed date or page.
The Province – January 13, 1992 – Page 35
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All-star listing naming Brian Seebaran.
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Source: The Province, January 13, 1992, p. 35.
The Province – December 10, 1992 – Page 72
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Brian Seebaran scored 35 points in Killarney's 110-78 win over Burnaby Central.
Transcription (as printed) — game sentence only:
Killarney’s Brian Seebaran 35 points in a 110-78 win over Burnaby Central.
Game sentence only, read from newspapers.com search-result crops and the ProQuest search snippet, 2026-10-28; the full results block on the page was not read.
Source: The Province, December 10, 1992, p. 72.
The Province – December 24, 1992 – Page 132
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Brian Seebaran scored 29 points in a 100-69 Killarney win over Britannia.
Transcription (as printed) — game sentence only:
Killarney’s Brian Seebaran 29 points in a 100-69 victory over Britannia.
“Britannia” was read in the scores list on the same page and in a cut-off line fragment, not as one continuous line of the agate column. Game sentence read from newspapers.com search-result crops and the ProQuest search snippet, 2026-10-28; the full results block on the page was not read.
Source: The Province, December 24, 1992, p. 132.
The Province – January 7, 1993 – Page 49
Brian Seebaran scored 27 points in Killarney's 87-47 win over Pitt Meadows.
Transcription (as printed) — High school / BASKETBALL / Burnaby Central Tournament / Senior boys (Killarney line):
The clipping is a full tournament results column; the other lines list Argyle 79 Terry Fox 64, Centennial 108 Mission 42, Terry Fox 89 King George 30, G.P. Vanier 82 Windsor 71, Port Moody 75 St. Thomas More 56, Ranier Beach 114 Brookswood 69, and Burnaby Central 77 Notre Dame 58, with their scorers. Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20.
Source: The Province, January 7, 1993, p. 49.
The Province – January 14, 1993 – Page 54
The Province’s Top Performances column leads with Carihi’s Eric Hinrichsen (47 points, 29 rebounds) and lists Brian Seebaran’s 46 points in Killarney’s 106-88 loss to Sutherland. ProQuest’s listing for this page also notes a 32-point game by Seebaran, including an 85-70 Killarney win over Seaquam.
Garibaldi’s Steve Cavanagh 45 points in a 103-86 loss to Clarence Fulton • Killarney’s Brian Seebaran 41 points in a 106-71 win over David Thompson • Garibaldi’s Mike Donoghoe 40 points in a 79-61 win over Mountain • Magee’s Raj Rai 39 points in a 102-88 win over L.V. Rogers • Credo Christian’s Steve Tiessen 39 points in a 118-79 win over Chemainus • Brookswood’s Derek Turner 38 points in a 93-60 win over Prince Rupert • Aldergrove’s Ray Stanley 38 points in a 109-99 win over L.V. Rogers • Mission’s Mohinder Duggal 37 points in a 93-85 loss to Abbotsford • McNair’s Josh Jakeaway 36 points in a 93-79 loss to Burnaby Central • Garibaldi’s Steve Cavanagh 36 points in an 81-65 win over Walnut Grove • Delta’s Navi Sekhon 36 points in a 102-65 win over South Delta • Chemainus’ Keith Valley 35 points in a 98-72 win over Bible Fellowship • Delta’s Navi Sekhon 35 points in a 99-72 loss to North Delta • Handsworth’s Jeff Sharma 35 points in 72-64 loss to West Vancouver • Johnston Heights’ Dan Peppar 35 points in a 65-64 win over [opponent cut off at bottom of clipping].
Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20; a few surnames in the small agate type are best readings.
Source: The Province, January 21, 1993, p. 62.
High school results — Killarney 113, David Thompson 62 — date not yet identified
Results cutting (no date, newspaper or page printed on the cutting): Killarney beat David Thompson 113-62, with Seebaran scoring 31 points. This is a second David Thompson game, separate from the January 21, 1993 game in which he scored 41 in a 106-71 win. The cutting is published here undated rather than guessed; if it is later matched to a dated newspaper page, this entry will be updated.
Transcription (as printed) — High school / BASKETBALL / Senior Boys (Killarney line):
Killarney 113 David Thompson 62 (K: Brian Seebaran 31. DT: Arthur Jarowicz 30)
The surname is printed “Seebaran” in this strip; “Jarowicz” is a best reading of the small type. The same strip also lists Richmond 104 McNair 83, Sutherland 76 Sentinel 51, Exhibition games, and Fraser Valley Senior Girls results. Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-28.
Source: newspaper results cutting, 1992-93 season; newspaper and date not identified.
The Province – January 28, 1993 – Page 58 – Scoring leaders
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Scoring leaders table: Brian Seebaran, Killarney — 242 points, 30.3 average; also listed at 76, 9.5 average in the table's other category.
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Source: The Province, January 28, 1993, p. 58.
The Province – February 4, 1993 – Page 51
Brian Seebaran scored 32 points in a 105-79 Killarney win, and 29 points in an 88-85 win over Van Tech.
Transcription (as printed, visible portion of the column):
[Top of clipping cropped — ends “…79 win over Britannia”] • MEI’s Ben Neufeld 30 points in a 94-53 win over Abbotsford • Vancouver Tech’s Brian Hutchinson 30 points in a 63-55 win over David Thompson • Prince of Wales’ Rob McKee 30 points in a 128-61 win over Charles Tupper • Windsor’s Brent Mollnski 30 points in an 82-72 win over Mountain • Prince Rupert’s Kevin Campbell 30 points in an 83-66 loss to Argyle • Prince of Wales’s Rob McKee 29 points in a 76-71 win over Winston Churchill • Centennial’s Rob McIntosh 29 points in a 92-59 win over Mission • Killarney’s Brian Seebaran 29 points in an 88-85 win over Van Tech
Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20. This strip shows the 29-point Van Tech line; the 32-point Britannia line in the summary is above the cropped top of this strip and is not visible in the photograph.
Source: The Province, February 4, 1993, p. 51.
Vancouver Sun – game reports and listings, 1992-93
Vancouver Sun – November 30, 1992 – Page 48
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Brian Seebaran scored 48 points in Killarney's 93-90 win over Magee, and was named to the tournament's Second all-star team.
Transcription (as printed):
(MR: Marc Lemire, 24 points; WC: Chris Lochhead, 25)
Third — MEI 74 West Vancouver 43 (MEI: Ben Neufeld, 24; Matt Hoffar, 22)
Fifth — Pitt Meadows 67 Belmont 59 (PM: John Szogi; B: Chris Olsen, 14)
Seventh — Killarney 93 Magee 90 (K: Brian Seebaran, 48; M: Peter Benson, 24)
All-stars — First team: Lance Parker (MEI), Jim Chuang (Churchill), Jody Hart (Maple Ridge), Chris Olsen (Belmont), Marc Lemire (Maple Ridge). Second team: Julian Bentall (Magee), Mike Lemmen (Maple Ridge), Brian Seebaran (Killarney), Jeremy Hall (MEI), Curtis Mepham (Pitt Meadows).
“Lemmen” is hyphenated “Lem-men” across a line break in the clipping image. Read from the clipping image and OCR text of the newspapers.com clipping “2nd team” (clipped by brianseebaran), 2026-10-28; the clipping begins mid-item, and the Championship/First/Second placement lines above were not shown.
Source: Vancouver Sun, November 30, 1992, p. 48.
Vancouver Sun – January 11, 1993 – Page 40
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Brian Seebaran (Killarney) named to a second all-star team.
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Source: Vancouver Sun, January 11, 1993, p. 40.
Vancouver Sun – January 14, 1993 – Page 55
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Transcription (as printed) — High school / BASKETBALL / Vancouver League / Senior Boys (Killarney line):
Killarney 88 Vancouver Tech. 85 (K: Brian Seebaran 29, Jason Zoney 27. VT: Swee-Fah-Choi 24)
The same clipping also lists John Oliver 89 Windermere 48, plus North Shore Senior Girls and Fraser Valley Junior Boys results. The Van Tech scorer’s name is printed in hyphenated form and is a best reading of the small type. Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20.
Source: Vancouver Sun, January 28, 1993, p. 52.
Vancouver Sun – February 11, 1993 – Page 54
Top performances: Brian Seebaran's 44 points in a Killarney game.
Transcription (as printed) — High school / BASKETBALL / Senior Boys / Vancouver (Killarney line):
Killarney 122 Windermere 93 (K: Brian Seebaran 44, W: Dwayne Trans 22)
Reading note: in the cleaned scan the Windermere total reads 93 and the surname is printed “Seebaren”-like in the small type; and a second printing of the results column (shown below, via newspapers.com) reads the Windermere total as 98 — the game appears in print as both 122-93 and 122-98, in different printings. The same clipping also lists Exhibition, St. Joseph’s Tourney (Edmonton), Fraser Valley Senior Boys and Fraser Valley Senior Girls results. Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20.
The second printing, above: the same results column as it appears on newspapers.com reads “Killarney 122 — Brian Seebaran 44, Louis Mark 22; Windermere 98 — Duane Tran 22, Tom Lee 19.” The game stands in print both ways — 122-93 in the clipping at the top of this entry, 122-98 in this printing.
Source: Vancouver Sun, February 11, 1993, p. 54.
Vancouver Sun – February 11, 1993 – Page 55 – Scoring leaders
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B. Seebaran, Killarney 384 32.2 • A. Jarowicz, David Thomp. 282 25.4 • D. Tran, Windermere 209 20.9 • S.F. Chai, Van Tech 224 20.4 • W. Loftus, John Oliver 178 19.8 • T. Barbone, Britannia 235 19.6 • P. Samaris, Gladstone 154 19.2 • J. Zoney, Killarney 190 17.3 • J. Rodriguez, Britannia 198 16.5 • L. Lee, John Oliver 191 15.9
Assembled from overlapping ProQuest search-result snippets plus the clipping-thumbnail header, 2026-10-28 — not read as one continuous view of the table; the header is a best reading of the small thumbnail. An early thumbnail misreading (386 points, 25.6 average) was corrected against repeated ProQuest readings giving 384 and 25.4. A separate West-side scoring fragment on the same page was not fully recovered and is not part of this table.
Source: Vancouver Sun, February 11, 1993, p. 55.
Vancouver Sun – February 12, 1993 – Page 56
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Brian Seebaran scored 38 points in Killarney's 103-78 win over Magee.
[Transcription to add.]
Source: Vancouver Sun, February 12, 1993, p. 56.
Vancouver Sun – February 15, 1993 – Page 40
The Sun's agate column for the Vancouver City Championships at Vancouver Technical: Killarney's 75-72 third-place win over Prince of Wales (Brian Seebaran 36 points), John Oliver's 89-64 championship win over Winston Churchill, and the tournament all-stars — Seebaran was named to the First team. This is the same results column pictured with the Echo's third-place report in the community papers section below; its source was confirmed as this Sun page in October 2026, so no microfilm scan of the page is needed.
Transcription (as printed) — High school / BASKETBALL / Senior boys / Vancouver City Championships (At Vancouver Technical):
Championship — John Oliver 89 Winston Churchill 64 (JO: Sasha Chukich 27, Will Loftus 22; WC: Chris Lochhead 23, Dave Martinez 16)
Third — Killarney 75 Prince of Wales 72 (K: Brian Seebaran 36, Louis Mark 18; PW: Peter Posnikoff 22, Rob McKee 14)
Fourth — Britannia 64 Van Tech 62 (B: Jose Rodriguez 16; VT: Swee Fah Chee 17)
Tournament MVP: Sasha Chukich (John Oliver)
All-stars — First team: Peter Posnikoff (Prince of Wales), Dave Martinez (Winston Churchill), Will Loftus (John Oliver), Brian Seebaran (Killarney), Len Lee (John Oliver). Second team: Jason Zoney (Killarney), Swee Fah Chai (Vancouver Tech), Jose Rodrigues (Britannia), Chris Lochhead (Winston Churchill), Rob McKee (Prince of Wales).
The column spells the Britannia scorer “Rodriguez” in the Fourth line and “Rodrigues” in the all-stars, and the Van Tech scorer “Chee” in the Fourth line and “Chai” in the all-stars — both spellings are as printed. Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20; source page identified 2026-10-21.
Source: Vancouver Sun, February 15, 1993, p. 40.
Vancouver Sun – February 18, 1993 – Page 61
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Note on Brian Seebaran's 36 points in Killarney's 74-70 win over Abbotsford.
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Source: Vancouver Sun, February 18, 1993, p. 61.
The community papers — Vancouver Echo
Vancouver Echo – Wednesday, February 12, 1992 – Page 17 – “Hoopsters vie for city title”
The Echo’s preview of the 1992 Vancouver senior boys city championships at Vancouver Technical, published the morning the tournament opened. The large photograph by Tom Bertrand shows Brian Seebaran (No. 15) shooting for Killarney over a King George Dragons player, and the caption has the Cougars facing King George in the opening round that evening. The preview’s team listings put Killarney at 9-1 in league play, number one in the East, coached by Ted Cusick. Four teams from the East zone crossed over against the top four from the West, four of the eight qualified for the Lower Mainland championships, and the city final was set for Saturday night.
Transcription (as printed):
Headline: “Hoopsters vie for city title” (The Vancouver Echo, Wednesday, February 12, 1992, Page 17).
Photo caption: “Brian Seebaran (15) and the Killarney Cougars will face the King George Dragons in the opening round of the senior boys city basketball championships Wednesday (7:45 p.m.) at Van Tech. — Tom Bertrand photo”
“The road to provincial high school basketball supremacy begins this week for Vancouver’s top senior boys hoop teams. Vancouver Tech will host the eight-team city championships beginning today (Wednesday, February 12) with the final set for Saturday at 7:45 p.m.”
The Killarney listing: “School: Killarney / Team name: Cougars / Coach: Ted Cusick / League record: 9-1 / City ranking: East number one / Provincial ranking: unranked / Opening tourney game: 7:45 p.m. vs. King George”
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Source: The Vancouver Echo, Wednesday, February 12, 1992, p. 17.
Vancouver Echo – December 1992 – "Sore paws: Killarney Cougars saddled with hoof problems"
Christmas-season item by Mike Bell, the Echo's sports editor (undated on the clipping; the holiday theme and the Cougars' 8-7 record place it in December 1992). Killarney coach Ted Cusick had spent a month dealing with injuries to three of his most valuable players: forwards Brian Seebaran and Jason Zoney had each missed three games with ankle injuries, while Steve Wong had missed five games nursing a sore foot — and the Christmas break, Bell wrote, was coming just in time. The full article text appears in the photograph above.
Transcription (as printed):
Headline: “Sore paws — Killarney Cougars saddled with hoof problems” — By Mike Bell, Echo sports editor:
Santa should count his lucky stars that his reindeer don’t have the hoof problems Ted Cusick has been dealing with the past month.
Facing a holiday break in the (Saint?) Nick of time, the Killarney Cougars senior boys head coach has seen three of his most valuable basketball players miss games with injuries that would put the Jolly Old Elf out of business during his peak season.
But for Killarney, Christmas — and the accompanying break — is coming just in time.
Forwards Brian Seebaran and Jason Zoney have both managed to miss three games each with ankle injuries while Steve Wong has missed his regular spot on the perimeter for five games nursing a sore foot.
The result is an 8-7 overall record and although they are 3-1 against their weaker league opponents, Cusick expressed his disappointment with their sub-par performances in a few recent —
The clipping ends mid-sentence at that point; the rest of the article was not captured in the photograph available. Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20.
Source: The Vancouver Echo, December 1992.
Vancouver Echo – February 1993 – "JO's Kainer looks to cap season at city championships" – the "clawed out 37 points" article
Preview by Steve Braverman in the Vancouver Echo ahead of the 1993 city championships (the clipping carries no printed date; the issue is the one immediately before the championships of Feb. 10-13, 1993, most likely Wednesday, February 3). John Oliver finished the league season 10-0, closing it out by beating Killarney 116-94 on the Monday night, and Killarney ended 8-2, its only losses to JO. The article contains the line Brian Seebaran remembered word for word for over thirty years: the Cougar who "clawed out 37 points" in the loss. It also confirms, in print, the year before: John Oliver "was knocked out in the Lower Mainland playoffs by their East Vancouver nemesis 91-73 last year" — Killarney's 91-73 elimination of the Jokers in 1992. JO coach Joe Kainer called Jason Zoney and Brian Seebaran "the two best offensive players in the zone," and Seebaran — held up as the Cougars' leader, with Zoney shut down to 13 points on the Monday — wanted one more meeting in the city final: "We can beat them... It's always a big game for us." The full article text appears in the photograph above.
Transcription (as printed):
Headline: “JO’s Kainer looks to cap season at city championships” — By Steve Braverman, Echo Reporter:
What could be worse than putting a perfect season on the line in the City Championships?
That is the question plaguing John Oliver Jokers senior boys basketball team head coach, Joe Kainer, after his team finished league play at 10-0.
“They’re confident in their abilities and sense that they are a good team,” said Kainer after the 116-94 victory over the Killarney Cougars Monday afternoon to close out the regular season. “I don’t think losing ever gives you confidence.”
Killarney ended its season 8-2, with its only losses to JO.
Ironically, their positions were reversed last year with the Jokers’ only losses at the hands of the Cougars.
And John Oliver was knocked out in the Lower Mainland playoffs by their East Vancouver nemesis 91-73 last year so this is poetic justice for Kainer and his boys.
“We’ve always had good competition against Killarney,” said Kainer. “Jason Zoney and Brian Seebaran are the two best offensive players in the zone.”
So the only direction to look now is forward to the City Championships where previous records are erased and every team that qualified is unbeaten.
Kainer predicts his team will likely face the Magee Flying Lions from Vancouver West, even though he hasn’t seen them play.
“I know nothing about them,” said Kainer Monday before scouting Magee yesterday. “You look for defensive tendencies, what they do on offence and if they have special players.”
Cusick says he will also take some time and watch a few potential opponents although he does not work at it too intensely.
“I don’t even take a pen or pencil,” quipped Cusick. “But I try to recognize ball players to see if they consistently go left or right.
“I see if they play a zone defence or man-to-man and how they handle a press.”
Brian Seebaran, the Cougar who clawed out 37 points leading the Killarney scoring parade again in their Monday night loss, knows the Jokers only too well and looks forward to another meeting. Just one more.
That game — perhaps coincidentally, perhaps a matter of divine intervention — would come in the city championship finals.
“We can beat them,” says the gangly Seebaran who has consistently led the Cougars all year along with Jason Zoney, the forward who was shut down by JO Monday night and counted only 13 points. “I know we can beat them and we’d like one more chance to play them this year.” The game that would come in little over a week from now.
“It’s always a big game for us. We like to play JO and I’m really looking forward to playing them one more time. I really think we can beat them.”
Transcribed from the cleaned scan, 2026-10-20.
Source: The Vancouver Echo, February 1993 (issue before the Feb. 10-13, 1993 city championships).
Daily-paper notebook item – February 1993 – John Oliver 116, Killarney 93
A second report of the same Monday-night game the Echo article above is built around: a daily paper’s notebook item (the paper is not identified in the clipping) gives the score as John Oliver 116, Killarney 93, where the Echo printed 116-94 — 36 points from Will Loftus and 27 from Sasha Chukich for the eighth-ranked Jokers, Seebaran countering with 37 for Killarney, “to go with his 32 points against Britannia in a regular league game last week.” The column goes on to other performances of the week, led by Martin Nash’s 55 points for St. Michael’s University School in a 95-90 win over Esquimalt.
Transcription (as printed):
“John Oliver’s Monday night tilt with crosstown rival Killarney turned into quite the shootout, with the eighth-ranked Jokers handing the Cougars a 116-93 loss, thanks in no small part to 36 points from Will Loftus and another 27 from Sasha Chukich. Killarney’s Brian Seebaran countered with 37 of his own, to go with his 32 points against Britannia in a regular league game last week.”
Source: daily newspaper notebook item, February 1993 (via newspapers.com); the paper is not identified in the clipping.
Vancouver Echo – Wednesday, February 17, 1993 – Page 32 – "Cougs' whip Wales for third"
Report by Steve Braverman in the Vancouver Echo, the east Vancouver community weekly, on the 1993 Vancouver city championships at Vancouver Technical. After an 82-74 upset loss to the Churchill Bulldogs in the semifinal the night before, Killarney beat the Prince of Wales Walesmen 75-72 in the third-place game. Brian Seebaran led the way with 36 points, followed by Louis Mark's 18. Coach Ted Cusick's game plan sent Mark inside at Prince of Wales' best player, Rob McKee, who fouled out early. Seebaran, quoted in the article, said he "had to come out strong" after a few bad games, and that the team had to win after the demoralizing Churchill loss. With John Oliver and Winston Churchill in the city final, Killarney's win sent them into the back-door playoffs to qualify for the Lower Mainland tournament. The full article text appears in the photograph above.
The championships' results column from the daily papers tells the rest of the week's story: John Oliver beat Winston Churchill 89-64 in the final (Sasha Chukich, the tournament MVP, scored 27), and the tournament all-stars were named — First team: Peter Posnikoff (Prince of Wales), Dave Martinez (Churchill), Will Loftus (John Oliver), **Brian Seebaran (Killarney)** and Len Lee (John Oliver); Second team: Jason Zoney (Killarney), Swee Fah Chai (Vancouver Tech), Jose Rodrigues (Britannia), Chris Lochhead (Churchill) and Rob McKee (Prince of Wales).
Transcription (as printed):
Headline: “Cougs’ whip Wales for third” — By Steve Braverman, Echo reporter (The Vancouver Echo, Wednesday, February 17, 1993, Page 32):
The Killarney Cougars senior boys basketball team were in a position as unenviable as you can get.
After an 82-74 upset loss the night before at the paws of the Churchill Bulldogs, the Cougs’ found themselves scratching for third place in the Vancouver city championships against the Prince of Wales Walesmen on Saturday.
Not only were their sights no longer set on first place, but a loss to P.W. would mean having to face the loser of the Richmond Colts-Steveston Packers game in the first round of the back-door playoffs — both of whom are considered provincial powerhouses — to qualify for the Lower mainland tourney.
The winner however would battle a much more desirable opponent from Burnaby or New Westminster and as Killarney coach Ted Cusick put it, the game meant “everything.”
“I wanted to be in the Lower Mainland’s now,” said Cusick referring to John Oliver and Winston Churchill earning automatic berths for making the city final. “Now we have to play this back-door garbage and it’s a dogfight!”
The game was closer than he would have liked but Killarney came out the victor edging the Walesmen 75-72 with Brian Seebaran leading the way with 36 points followed by Louis Mark’s 18.
“I had to come out strong because we had a few bad games,” said Seebaran. “We had to win this one because when we lost to Churchill, it demoralized our club and when it’s playoffs, anyone can beat anybody.”
With the score tied 73-72 in the last minute of the game, Jason Zoney twice missed his first free-throw attempt in the bonus one-and-one and Seebaran missed one himself which coach Cusick said happened all tournament.
However, the Cougs’ battled hard on the boards as Mark pulled down a pair of key rebounds after the missed free throws which helped kill off the final seconds securing the victory.
And all of this happened after Cusick successfully executed his game plan that forced P.W.’s best player, Rob McKee, to foul out early.
“(McKee) got a couple fouls so I told Mark to go inside on him,” said Cusick. “It’s common strategy in high school basketball.”
Jason Zoney, the 6-3 guard, scored a pair of three-pointers, but for the most part he admits to losing his scoring touch having finished the game with only 9 points.
“When my shooting is not on, I try to help on the assists,” said Zoney in the dressing room. “Today I was frustrated because the referees were throwing me off.
“In this tournament, I didn’t play with enough intensity but once we’re in the back-door, I’ll be back to normal.”
The championships results column pictured with the article (High school / BASKETBALL / VANCOUVER CHAMPIONSHIPS / Senior boys, at Vancouver Technical):
Championship — John Oliver 89 Winston Churchill 64 (JO: Sasha Chukich 27, Will Loftus 22; WC: Chris Lochhead 23, Dave Martinez 16)
Third — Killarney 75 Prince of Wales 72 (K: Brian Seebaran 36, Louis Mark 18; PW: Peter Posnikoff 22, Rob McKee 14)
Fourth — Britannia 64 Van Tech 62 (B: Jose Rodriguez 16; VT: Swee Fah Chee 17)
Tournament MVP: Sasha Chukich (John Oliver)
All-stars — First team: Peter Posnikoff (Prince of Wales), Dave Martinez (Churchill), Will Loftus (John Oliver), Brian Seebaran (Killarney), Len Lee (Oliver). Second team: Jason Zoney (Killarney), Swee Fah Chai (Vancouver Tech), Jose Rodrigues (Britannia), Chris Lochhead (Churchill), Rob McKee (Prince of Wales).
The column spells the Britannia scorer “Rodriguez” in the Fourth line and “Rodrigues” in the all-stars, and the Van Tech scorer “Chee” in the Fourth line and “Chai” in the all-stars — both spellings are as printed. The Echo article’s “score tied 73-72” is also as printed. Transcribed from the cleaned scans, 2026-10-20.
Source: The Vancouver Echo, Wednesday, February 17, 1993, p. 32.
Scholarship award
McDonald’s BEST Program – B.C. High School Boys’ Basketball Association scholarship award – May 25, 1993
The certificate of the British Columbia High School Boys’ Basketball Association Scholarship Award, presented under the McDonald’s BEST Program (Basketball Education Scholarship Team) to Brian Seebaran “for outstanding athletic and academic achievement,” dated May 25, 1993, and signed by the association’s president and secretary.
Transcription (as printed):
“BEST PROGRAM — BASKETBALL EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP TEAM / BRITISH COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL BOYS’ BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION / SCHOLARSHIP AWARD / PRESENTED TO / Brian Seebaran / FOR OUTSTANDING ATHLETIC AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT / ON THIS DAY / May 25, 1993” — with the McDonald’s logo at the foot of the certificate.
Source: British Columbia High School Boys’ Basketball Association scholarship award certificate, May 25, 1993.
The Terrace Standard – Wednesday, July 7, 1993 – Page B3 – The BEST winners in print
The newspaper announcement of the 1993 McDonald’s B.E.S.T. scholarships (the certificate above): the B.E.S.T. program — the “Basketball Education Scholarship Team,” funded by McDonald’s Restaurants in British Columbia and Yukon and administered by the B.C. High School Boys’ and the B.C. Secondary School Girls’ Basketball Associations — awarded forty scholarships of $500 each to graduating seniors who had lettered for their basketball team and planned a post-secondary education. The winners list names “Brian Benjamin Seebaran” in its middle column; Bret Wallace Anderson of Terry Fox is also among the forty.
Transcription (as printed) — heading and program note:
CONGRATULATIONS. / To The Winners Of Our 1993 McDonald’s B.E.S.T. Scholarships. / Fraser MacKay, Terrace — and the forty winners, among them Brian Benjamin Seebaran and Bret Wallace Anderson.
“McDonald’s congratulates the winners of the 1993 B.E.S.T. scholarships. B.E.S.T., the ‘Basketball Education Scholarship Team,’ is a program funded by McDonald’s Restaurants in British Columbia and Yukon and administered by both the B.C. High School Boys’ Basketball Association and the B.C. Secondary School Girls’ Basketball Association. Forty scholarships of $500 each are awarded to graduating seniors who have lettered for their basketball team and who plan to pursue a post-secondary education.” (The full winners list is in the photograph above.)
Source: The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 7, 1993, p. B3 (via newspapers.com).
Cricket – Brian Seebaran
A ProQuest cricket search (all years, both papers) found two confirmed Brian Seebaran cricket items, both in the Vancouver Sun. Two further print items have since turned up on newspapers.com — The Province’s sports-shorts brief on the 182 not out, printed the morning after the match (August 18, 1991), and a Times Colonist item naming Seebaran to a Canada Under-23 XI (July 29, 1994) — and a fourth cricket feature, from the Trinidad Guardian of April 1995, is reproduced below as well. The many other "Seebaran" cricket hits in the Sun and Province are earlier items about other people, not Brian. One ambiguous item is not counted: The Province, August 22, 2002, p. 46, a Canada scorecard with a bowler listed only as "B. Seebaran." No Sun or Province coverage was found of Brian's 36 runs for British Columbia against the M.C.C. at Brockton Point on October 1, 2000, or of his naming to Canada's 2003 Cricket World Cup training squad in June 2002 — both known from Canadian Cricket Association reports.
The 182 not out — original scorecard, Vancouver Juniors v Caribe II, August 17, 1991
The original scorecard of Brian Seebaran's record innings — the actual card kept, in his famously neat hand, by scorer George Berridge, who gave it to Seebaran after the match. B.C. Mainland Cricket League, Third Division, at Lower Brockton (Brockton Point, Stanley Park, Vancouver), August 17, 1991: Vancouver Juniors v Caribe Cricket Club II. Seebaran, aged 15, opened the batting and finished 182 not out. Vancouver Juniors lost three quick wickets — his opening partner (13), Chris Franks (7, lbw) and R. Danda (0) — the wickets falling at 32, 83 and 87, before S. Wicks (84 not out) joined him in an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 224. The captain declared after 39 overs at 311 for 3, Seebaran carrying his bat with 182 of the runs. Caribe II's bowlers: G. Williams took 2 for 58, H. Grahir 1 for 43, G. Rouse 0 for 64. The innings was the highest individual score by a player from British Columbia in the post-war record books, and Trevor Heaver wrote to Seebaran certifying it as a post-war B.C. record.
Transcription (as printed):
Reading of the handwritten card (scored by George Berridge):
Vancouver Juniors Cricket Club v Caribe II C. Club — Innings of Vancouver Juniors — Played at Lower Brockton on 17 August 1991.
Batting: 1. B. Seebaran — not out — 182. 2. (opening partner; name not clearly legible on the card) — ct Bertrand, b Grahir — 13. 3. C. Franks — LBW, b Williams — 7. 4. R. Danda — b Williams — 0. 5. S. Wicks — not out — 84. Nos. 6 to 11 did not bat.
Runs at the fall of each wicket: 1st wicket — 32; 2nd — 83; 3rd — 87. Extras: 25. TOTAL: 311 for 3 wkts.
Bowling (Caribe II): H. Grahir — 6 overs, 43 runs, 1 wicket. G. Williams — 6 overs, 58 runs, 2 wickets. G. Rouse — 11 overs, 64 runs, 0 wickets. The card’s runs-at-the-end-of-each-over chart closes at 311 in the 39th over, when the innings was declared.
Transcribed from the cleaned scan of the original scorecard, 2026-10-20. Only the entries that are clearly legible are read here.
Source: original match scorecard, B.C. Mainland Cricket League, August 17, 1991.
The Province – Sunday, August 18, 1991 – The 182 not out in the sports shorts
The morning after the match, The Province’s sports-shorts roundup carried the innings in two lines — the contemporary newspaper report of the 182 not out whose scorecard is above. The brief ran under a combined roundup headed by a football item (Warren Moon’s Oilers beating the Cowboys in Houston); it turned up on newspapers.com in October 2026 — the earlier ProQuest search had missed it, which is why the innings long appeared to have no newspaper coverage of its own. The full page is kept with the scans.
Transcription (as printed):
CRICKET: Brian Seebaran of Vancouver Juniors batted 182 not out against Caribe to set a local cricket record in a third division B.C. Mainland League fixture at Brockton Oval Saturday.
Source: The Province, Sunday, August 18, 1991, sports shorts roundup (via newspapers.com).
Vancouver Sun – June 23, 1992 – Page 51 – Brian Seebaran, cricket captain
SCAN TO ADD File name: Brian-Seebaran-Vancouver-Sun-Jun-23-1992-p51-cricket.jpg Alt text: "Brian Seebaran named captain of a B.C. youth cricket squad, Vancouver Sun, June 23, 1992, page 51"
Brian Seebaran listed as captain of a B.C. youth/junior cricket squad (Chris Franks, vice-captain), described in the item as several of the top young cricket players in B.C.
[Transcription to add.]
Source: Vancouver Sun, June 23, 1992, p. 51.
The January 28, 1993 Vancouver Sun feature above (sports p. D11) is the second confirmed cricket item: it names Brian Seebaran captain of Canada's under-19 cricket team.
Times Colonist – Friday, July 29, 1994 – Page 21 – Canada Under-23 XI
A year after captaining the under-19s in Denmark, Seebaran was picked for a Canada Under-23 XI: the Times Colonist of Victoria listed the British Columbia players selected for the team — Matthew Brooks, Sonny Bhalla, Jeremy Cordle and Warren Hoole from the Victoria clubs, Mark Vaughan (Richmond C.C., Vancouver) and “Brian Seebaran (Brockton Point C.C., Vancouver).”
Transcription (as printed):
“In addition to the British Columbia side a Canada Under-23 XI has been selected to participate in the tournament. The following players from British Columbia have been selected to play for this team: Matthew Brooks (Saanich C.C., Victoria); Sonny Bhalla (Saanich C.C., Victoria); Jeremy Cordle (Carico C.C., Victoria); Warren Hoole (Saanich C.C., Victoria); Mark Vaughan (Richmond, C.C., Vancouver); Brian Seebaran (Brockton Point C.C., Vancouver).”
Source: Times Colonist, Victoria, Friday, July 29, 1994, p. 21 (via newspapers.com).
Trinidad Guardian – April 1995 – "In Brian's footsteps?" – Brian Seebaran in Trinidad
Feature by Mark Bassant (photo by Shirley Bahadur) in the Trinidad Guardian, April 1995. Brian Seebaran, at 19 the youngest-ever winner of the 1994 Donald King Scholarship Award — given to Canada's most outstanding under-25 cricketer — spent the 1995 season in Trinidad (he is a multi-national of Trinidad and Tobago and Canada) playing for Clarke Road United in Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board competitions. The article records that at 15 he scored 182 not out for Vancouver, the highest individual score by a player from British Columbia, and that he captained the Canadian junior team on its 1993 tour of Denmark. He hoped to make the Canadian national team for its September 1995 tour of the West Indies. The headline plays on Brian Lara: the photo caption notes the left-handed Seebaran "bats left-handed like his namesake Brian Lara," and Seebaran himself called Lara "almost perfect," with Sir Garry Sobers the other cricketer he admired most. The full article text appears in the photograph above.
Transcription (as printed):
Photo caption: ANOTHER BRIAN?: Canada’s Brian Seebaran, who bats left-handed like his namesake Brian Lara, demonstrates his version of the Lara drive. Photo by SHIRLEY BAHADUR.
BRIAN SEEBARAN was only 19 when he became the 1994 Donald King Scholarship Award winner. Since the award is given for the most outstanding Under-25 cricketer in Canada, it is no surprise that Seebaran is the youngest ever awardee.
It is not the only first that the young Canadian with Trinidad roots has recorded.
In the past, recipients of this award were either sent to England or Australia for a six to eight week program. But because Canada is trying to establish a better liaison with Trinidad, Seebaran, whose father is Trinidadian, has been sent to this country to participate in a program here for the first time. He will play for Clarke Road United in Trinidad and Tobago Cricket Board of Control competitions until August.
Brian started playing cricket at the age of four with a great deal of help from his father, Ben, who migrated from Trinidad to Canada in 1960. He has now handed over the responsibilities of the serious coaching to more professional hands but he continues to support Brain [as printed] with advice and a critical eye.
A student of the Simon Fraser University, Brian is currently pursuing a degree in linguistics. According to him, being “Trinidadian,” has helped him to enrich his cultural and linguistic background and this has helped him no end in his work at university.
At 15, Brian scored 182 not out for Vancouver, the highest individual score by a player from that province. Two years later in 1992, at the age of 17, he captained the Canadian Junior Team on a tour to Denmark. However, he stresses that there is a whole lot still to be done in his career.
“I see myself just going out there and trying to do my best and to concentrate and do what is required of me.”
“Like Brian Lara!” he adds with a chuckle. Lara is, naturally, one of the cricketers he admires and respects most and he describes him as “almost perfect.”
Of Sir Gary Sobers whom he also admires a great deal, he says that “he’s always been a class above the rest.”
At the end of this season when he returns home, he expects to try out for the Canadian National Team. That team will be touring the West Indies in September of this year and Seebaran hopes he will be among the party which will be hopping from island to island in the footsteps of Brian Lara.
Source: Trinidad Guardian, April 1995 (Wednesday edition; the clipping is dated by hand "April 1995").
The next generation
The sporting story continues in the family: Brian Seebaran's son, Immanuel Mathe, is a defender from Burnaby, B.C., who came through the Vancouver Whitecaps Academy and played one season for the University of North Carolina (2025, named to the ACC All-Freshman team — see his official UNC Athletics bio). He has since signed professionally with Whitecaps FC 2 in MLS NEXT Pro, on a contract through 2027 — and WFC2 play their home games at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby. In his first full professional season in 2026 he logged 1,667 minutes for WFC2 in MLS NEXT Pro, and started the season finale at Swangard on September 20, 2026.
