The Long Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education voted to abolish its one-year ineligibility rule for student-athletes transferring between Moore League schools at last week’s board meeting. The vote passed unanimously, 5-0, undoing the rule which had been on the books since March 17, 2015. The rule has been widely decried by Moore League […]
CCCAA Approves Plan For LBCC’s Return to Athletics This Fall
Optimism continues to grow regarding the return of athletic events this fall. At a recent Board of Directors meeting of the California Community College Athletic Association (CCCAA), the governing body of the state’s junior college athletic programs, the board voted unanimously to move forward with a set of recommendations for how to bring sports back […]
PODCAST: The LB Fee Show With Track Coach LaTanya Sheffield
This week we’re talking to Long Beach State Athletes Director Andy Fee about the six phases of how the Beach will bring athletics back to campus following the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re also joined by LaTanya Sheffield to talk about how Track & Field is responding to the pandemic, the now 2021 Olympic games and her […]
COLUMN: Long Beach Shows Its Heart, Pride
Ask anyone from Long Beach, and they’ll tell you they’re proud to be from Long Beach. Sometimes they’ll say it without you even asking. That’s certainly been true of me for most of my adult life—but I’ve never been prouder to be from my city than I was last Monday. The night before my wife […]
FEATURE: LBCC AD Bill Husak Hopes For Return to Athletics
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone in the city of Long Beach with a better understanding of collegiate athletics than Bill Husak. As a member of the community for over four decades, Husak was a professor and department chair at Long Beach State, spent 20 years as the Athletic Director at Loyola Marymount University, […]
FEATURE: St. Anthony’s Tiare Jennings Named State Player of the Year
St. Anthony senior Tiare Jennings received a huge honor last week when it was announced that she is Gatorade’s California Softball Player of the Year after what was looking to be a record-setting senior campaign. Jennings was hitting .710 with 19 RBI, 18 runs, six HRs and a 1.483 slugging percentage through eight games this […]
Cabrillo Principal Makes Special Trip For Jags Senior
The Long Beach Unified School District’s high schools have been honoring their graduating seniors in a variety of ways, including by handing out yard signs to let students’ neighborhoods know that they’re moving on. That has left out some seniors who’ve moved away during the COVID-19 campus shutdowns, since online learning can occur anywhere there’s […]
High School Seniors Celebrated With Yard Signs
From dancing at prom to walking the graduation stage, the Class of 2020 has missed out on a lot this spring. While isolated at home, separated from teachers and classmates, seniors have had to miss out on celebrating the culmination of their high school years. Local schools are well aware of the struggles their seniors […]
Long Beach Poly Volleyball Coach Steps Down
Longtime Long Beach Poly girls’ volleyball coach Leland McGrath confirmed he is stepping down as coach of the Jackrabbits after 13 years. McGrath’s Jackrabbits won the CIF Southern Section Division 1 championship in 2010 and won six Moore League championships. He leaves a Poly team that is absolutely packed with talent next year, headlined by […]
PODCAST: Interview With Gatorade Softball Player of the Year Tiare Jennings
This week on the podcast we’re talking to the Gatorade California Softball Player of the Year Tiare Jennings about missing her senior season at St. Anthony and preparing for her bright future at Oklahoma. 08:00 Interview with Gatorade Softball Player of the Year Tiare Jennings 29:00 Recommendations (Seberg & Space Force)