JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
Major news landed Wednesday morning as the American Volleyball Coaches Association announced that Long Beach State junior setter Josh Tuaniga is this year’s National Player of the Year. “It’s really an honor and I appreciate it, especially on behalf of my family,” said Tuaniga. Of the 29 previous honorees, Tuaniga becomes just the seventh setter […]
Age and time weren’t deciding factors for the 2018 Long Beach State Hall of Fame class. Former student-athletes such as Casper Ware, Nadia Link and Kay Hoey are inductees who played at LBSU within the last decade. “That was an unbelievable era,” LBSU athletics director Andy Fee said of the NCAA appearances for men’s basketball […]
The No. 21 Long Beach State softball team led early against No. 3 UCLA on Sunday in front of a huge crowd at LBSU Softball Complex, but the Beach couldn’t hold on in a 6-5 loss to finish the Louisville Slugger Invitational. LBSU (19-7) got on the board in the first inning when sophomore Taylor […]
