An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards 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.
Poly Left to Right: Will Frankenfeld, Queen Okoh, DeAngelo Chester, Saminah Haddad, Ashun Brown, Zanae Woods, Octavian Hall, Saundria Martin, Everett Steward, Quwshayah Peters, Liam Anderson, Jaelyn Predium, Anthony Johnson With due respect to Poly’s famous, powerhouse football and basketball programs, it has always been a track and field school. Since the Jackrabbits won their […]
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