It was another successful summer for the Long Beach Mizuno Volleyball Club, the elite club owned by Long Beach State women’s volleyball coach Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer and her husband, Matt. Mizuno sent six teams to the Girls Junior National Championships in Indianapolis, with five of them finishing in the top 10 and one winning a national championship. […]
This is the first installment of Next One Up, an occasional summer feature series taking a look at some of the biggest up-and-coming stars in the Long Beach sports world. All photos by Art O’Neill and John Napalan. Old Town Road is ruling the air waves, there’s a new Spider-Man movie in theaters, and the […]
Photo by Paul Slater An era is coming to an end at St. Anthony High School, where longtime athletic director Brian Walsh is stepping down to become the new AD at La Salle Prep. Walsh’s 16 year tenure with the Saints is by far the most successful era in the Saints’ 100 year history. “It […]
Next Tuesday, July 9, the Long Beach City Council will consider a proposal by councilwoman Jeannine Pearce to name the new Main Library downtown for Long Beach icon Billie Jean King. According to a press release from Pearce, more than 1,000 community members have already signed on in support of the group, a diverse base […]
When Lakewood High opens its gates in the Fall of 2019, there will be a major change at the school. Athletic director Lisa Busch, who has served in that role for the Lancers for 20 years, stepped down at the end of this school year, and was recognized for her contributions at an emotional end-of-year […]
Long Beach is opening a new Main Library this Fall, and my family and I couldn’t be more excited. Last summer we went on a fun tour of the city by visiting every branch, a fun way to show our kids the city while letting them feel like their growing love of books and reading […]
It was another golden spring for the Long Beach track and field world, with another big helping of team and individual championships coming to the city. Long Beach Poly and Wilson led the way, as expected, with the Trackrabbits winning the boys’ CIF-SS Division 1 team championship and the girls’ runner up. Wilson had the […]
It was another great year for St. Anthony volleyball under head girls’ and boys’ coach Alicia Lemau’u, who took the Saints to historic heights in the fall and the spring. The girls’ volleyball team was able to make it to the CIF-SS semifinals, something they’d done before under Lemau’u, having won a CIF championship three […]
It was a great year for Wilson girls’ runners, as both the Bruins girls’ cross country team and the girls’ track and field team won Moore League championships this year. Per Moore League records it was the cross country team’s first league title since 2004 and the track team’s first league title since 2008. Both […]
After Millikan fired longtime beloved Rams coach Kirk Diego, the MIllikan football program fell on hard times. After going 14-36 from 2012 to 2016, the Rams made it to the CIF-SS quarterfinals in 2017, a feat that they repeated again this year, going 8-3 and once again taking second in the Moore League. With the […]