An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 18 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous state and national honors 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.
Our All-City Athletes of the Year award has been around for more than a decade, just a fraction of the 120+ year history of amazing youth athletes in Long Beach. But over the last 11 years we’ve gotten a good look at the top flight of the city’s talent pool: previous recipients of this award […]
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