It’s running week on “What Up, Long Beach?!” and we’re updating you on the latest budget news for Long Beach schools before interviewing Wilson track star Rachel Glenn about missing her much anticipated senior season. We also catch up with local running legend Bobby Hauck. 12:00 Interview With Bobby Hauck 19:10 Interview With Rachel Glenn […]
With this week’s scheduled CIF Southern Section championships canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there will officially be a blank line across the record books. Before we close the book on 2019-20, we wanted to take a look at a few of the league and CIF-SS/State championships we expected to be covering this May–just because […]
Timing didn’t seem to be on Lakewood High cross country star Aiden Alegria’s side when COVID-19 concerns shut down the Long Beach Unified School District last month. Alegria had high hopes for his senior track season after he easily recorded personal bests in the one and two-mile races during training just days before the season was […]
We’ve got some great shots from the meet thanks to photographer John Napalan of All-In Press.
Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks to Naples Rib Company for their sponsorship. Taylor Johnson, Keller Middle School Keller Middle School student Taylor Johnson made Long Beach history at last week’s LBUSD All-City Track & Field meet. Johnson won the 100m dash with a time of 12.2 seconds, breaking a nearly 40 […]
There’s no secret that the best high school sport in Long Beach for the last several years has been track and field. Last year saw individual CIF-SS or state champions at Long Beach Poly, Wilson, Millikan and St. Anthony, and we’re expecting enormous things from the high school kids in Long Beach this year. Wilson’s […]
High school track and field athletes all over America work their whole lives to be in the situation that Wilson senior Rachel Glenn was in last week, selecting which college to accept a full scholarship from. That doesn’t mean that the experience wasn’t successful for Glenn, who had a hard time choosing just one option […]
Wilson’s Rachel Glenn Signs With South Carolina For full coverage visit the562.org
Photo by Stephen Carr Last month’s announcement that the new Long Beach Main Library would be named in honor of Billie Jean King got me thinking: what else out there is in need of a name? Or, to look at it from a better angle, who else out there is deserving of a major honor? […]
The Long Beach State track and field program has had some of its best seasons over the last few years, and women’s coach LaTanya Sheffield has been instrumental in that improvement. So much so that athletics director Andy Fee promoted her to head coach of the women’s team last week. Coach Andy Sythe will now […]