An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 18 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous state and national honors for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
Long Beach Poly girls’ is one of the city’s best program-builders, and the job he’s done with the Jackrabbits over the last two seasons has been remarkable. In his first season in 2023 Poly was co-Moore League champs with Wilson, snapping a three-year title drought. Then last year, with his team’s culture fully formed, the […]