Before Long Beach Poly’s football game against Serra on Friday night, Jackrabbits coach Stephen Barbee read his team a poem. The Dash poem is about the mark in between the years on a tombstone, a flat line between a person’s birth and death that represents their life. He asked his team what their dash was […]
It’s been a year of loss and tragedy for much of the world, and it’s been a brutal year for the Long Beach Poly community. A number of Poly football players have lost parents, grandparents, or other family members over the last 12 months and the program is dealing with the loss of beloved longtime […]
Long Beach Poly Football Spring 2021 Preview We take a look at the upcoming season for the Jackrabbits. Support The562.org
Calvin Bryant is the busiest man in Compton right now. The longtime football coach is now in his 13 season running the Compton High program, and is also serving as the school’s athletic director. That means in the last three weeks he’s been responsible for starting the Compton football program back up and getting ready […]
Compton High Football Spring 2020-21 Preview We take a look at Compton High as they prepare for the upcoming season. Support The562.org
The high school sports scene has burst back into life in Long Beach in fits and starts, with cross country meets and water polo games paving the way for Friday Nights Lights at the end of this week. The dual cross country meet between Long Beach Poly and Millikan on Wednesday afternoon on Poly’s campus […]
The wild ride of the 2020-21 Long Beach State women’s basketball season came to an abrupt and heartbreaking end in the quarterfinals of the Big West Tournament in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, as the third-seeded Beach were upset by sixth-seeded Cal Poly. The Beach had a one-point lead for the last minute but a […]
It was a successful return to the pool for the Wilson girls’ water polo team on Monday evening at Cabrillo High, as the Bruins took down rival Poly, 14-1. “It was fun, you can tell it’s been a long layoff but they swam well,” said Wilson coach Barry O’Dea of his Bruins squad. “Our centers […]
High School Water Polo: Wilson vs. Long Beach Poly The Bruins beat the Jackrabbits as high school water polo returned to Long Beach on Monday night.
Congratulations to all of our Athletes of the Week, sponsored by Naples Rib Company. HIGH SCHOOL Kyle Johnson, Long Beach Poly Cross Country Long Beach Poly senior Kyle Johnson won his first career varsity race last week in leading the Jackrabbits to a team victory over Lakewood. Johnson ran a 17:34 over Poly’s 5K campus […]