The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by Poly alum Jayon Brown and PlayFair Sports Management. The562’s coverage of Long Beach Poly athletics in the 2022-23 school year is sponsored by JuJu Smith-Schuster and the JuJu Foundation.
In the 1910s and 1920s, the Long Beach Poly boys’ water polo team was one of Southern California’s best sports programs, winning 11 CIF-SS titles between 1912 and 1929. Since then? Not so dominant, as the Jackrabbits have been the definitive second-place team in the Moore League behind Wilson for the last several decades. The […]
Long Beach Poly’s roster lists senior James “Chubba” Maae with a series of numbers: he wears jersey number 53, he’s 6’2”, and he weighs 335 pounds. As significant as those numbers may be, they don’t tell the story of Maae’s significance to the Jackrabbits’ football program. The captain has played all over the team’s offensive […]
