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.
The562’s high school soccer coverage for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Long Beach Poly soccer alum Kennedy Justin. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. It was hard to watch the Wilson girls’ soccer team’s Division 3 playoff opener without asking yourself, ‘What if?’ Less than two hours […]
Dana Fujikuni started her collegiate soccer career at UC Davis, transferred to Long Beach State in 2015, was named Big West Midfielder of the Year on Wednesday and then scored the game-winner against UC Davis on Thursday. The 49th minute goal in the first Big West Conference semifinal at UC Irvine proved enough as LBSU […]
