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 coverage of Long Beach Wilson Athletics is sponsored by Joel Bitonio, Class of 2009. In unseasonably warm conditions on Thursday afternoon, the Wilson girls’ lacrosse team was firing on all cylinders during a 13-2 win over rivals Long Beach Poly. The Bruins got five goals apiece from Tatiana Cortes and Angie Medrano to improve […]
The wildly successful Wilson boys’ and girls’ golf programs are officially looking for a new coach, the school announced Monday. After the sudden passing of head golf coach Kurt Holmes in December 2020, Jeff Evans returned as the interim boys’ and girls’ golf coach for this Spring season. It was his 14th season at the […]
The562’s high school soccer coverage for the 2025-26 season is sponsored by Long Beach Poly soccer alum Kennedy Justin. The CIF-SS girls’ soccer brackets were released Saturday morning, and Long Beach has four teams representing in Divisions 2 through 5. All games are scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 12, at 5pm, but are subject to time […]
