Leadership takes many forms, and on the Wilson boys’ soccer team this season it’s taken the form of Carlos Mota. The tall, athletic senior for the Bruins has been their do-everything man, playing all over the field. In a frigid Friday road game at Long Beach Poly, Mota was called on to play center back, […]
Long Beach Poly was fresh off a crisp, determined performance in its regular season finale against Wilson last Thursday, but the Jackrabbits didn’t look quite like themselves during Wednesday’s first round playoff loss against Huntington Beach. The visitors controlled the action from the get-go, and secured a 2-1 win to open the CIF-SS Division I […]
When we started our student internship program at the562.org, we noticed an immediate trend in the applicants we were receiving from Long Beach Unified School District students. Most of the kids who applied for the paid internship program were athletes, and most of them were…well, they weren’t star athletes. They were athletes like JJ, Tyler […]
