The Cabrillo Dance Company completed in Escondido, California over the weekend, and the Jaguars won awards in 9 categories. See the award winners below: Small Group Jazz ~ 1st place, Judges Award (Powerful Dance Performance Award) Lyrical solo ~ Che’Lyn Lane, Top 1st place, NYC Invitation Musical Theater solo ~ Debreanna Helmage, Top 1st place […]
Cabrillo boys’ athletic director Rick Lamprecht was hustling from place to place on Thursday morning, trying to help set up the school’s lunchtime rally to introduce the new Jaguars boys and girls basketball coaches. Clutched in his right hand was a book with a telling title: The Growth Mindset. It’s a mindset that everyone has […]
Wednesday’s Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education meeting saw the board unanimously approve an $11 million Site Security Plan to fence the 28 LBUSD sites that currently have open plans. The Site Security Plan will also add a video-monitoring system to every LBUSD site that would require the office to buzz in any […]
Cabrillo baseball coach Pedro Torres said before the season that his team wanted to hang its hat on defense and competitive fire. His Jaguars must have been listening, because Cabrillo gave Long Beach Poly everything they could handle on Thursday afternoon at Blair Field. The two teams were tied headed to the seventh inning before […]
On this week’s episode of What Up, Long Beach?! JJ Fiddler and Mike Guardabascio are talking about which Long Beach sports legends deserve to be on a Long Beach Sports Mount Rushmore. What Up, Long Beach?! on Apple Podcasts What Up, Long Beach?! is the official podcast of The562.org your home for everything Long […]
The Moore League boys’ tennis team and individual title go through Long Beach Poly this season. The Jackrabbits are trying to win a third consecutive team title with defending singles champion Felippe Dacudao (pictured) leading the way. Poly is 8-4 overall and 7-0 in league play after a 12-6 win over Millikan last week, and […]
Because of on-campus construction, the Jordan softball team has to play its home games at Compton College, but the Panthers seem to like their new home. Jordan won its second consecutive Moore League game at “home” by taking down Cabrillo 18-0 on Tuesday. Jordan senior Ilena Rivera was 2-for-2 with two RBIs and three runs […]
The spring rains have arrived and the boys of the Moore League are back at Blair Field. What makes baseball special for high school athletes in Long Beach is the venue, yes, but also the competitiveness of the league. Four schools have won the league championship in the last six years, and three teams (Millikan, […]
The Cabrillo Jaguars (4-4, 0-2) have started another new era under another new coach. Pedro Torres has taken over the program, and despite not being able to schedule any tournaments this season because he got the job too late in the offseason, the first-time head coach has high expectations. “I expect us to be in […]