Mike Guardabascio
An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards 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.
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Track And Field: Cif Southern Section Masters Meet
St. Anthony Track & Field

Track: St. Anthony’s Atkinson Wins Masters Gold

Mike Guardabascio

The excellent sophomore season continued for St. Anthony’s Asjah Atkinson on Saturday at the CIF Southern Section Track & Field Masters Meet. Atkinson claimed Masters gold in the 100 hurdles with a time of 14.08, and led a strong Long Beach performance as Wilson’s Rachel Glenn finished third in the event. Atkinson started the day […]

Track And Field: Cif State Championships
COVID-19 Track & Field Wilson

Feature: Wilson’s Rachel Glenn Laments Loss Of Special Senior Season

Mike Guardabascio

This was supposed to be Rachel Glenn’s year, and this was supposed to be her weekend. The crown jewel of Long Beach’s high school sports landscape had spent months dreaming of what she could do at the CIF State Track & Field Championships, originally scheduled for this weekend before the COVID-19 shutdowns wiped most of […]

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Long Beach Poly Track & Field

Long Beach Poly’s Leila Holland, Jillene Wetteland Commit to Harvard

Avery Peck

Long Beach Poly has long been known as the “Home of Scholars and Champions,” and for good reason. Since its founding in 1895, the institution has produced over 60 NFL players, many Olympians, and dozens of professional athletes in various sports, while also boasting two of the city’s top academic magnet programs, a Grammy Award […]