Shore Aquatics had six boys’ water polo players selected to the Olympic Development Program regional teams. Clinton Haltom, Max Miller, Zack Crenshaw, Sean Tunnicliff, Zack Crenshaw, Gray Carson and Wiley Haga all made the roster, and four of them played in their respective National Championship games in Riverside earlier this month. Max Miller and his […]
The state’s longest league championship streak will be on the line again this year, as Wilson tries to win a 47th consecutive Moore League title. The Bruins are led once again by a coach steeped in the tradition of the school’s storied aquatics program, Eric Berg. “We were lucky that the top seniors that graduated […]
The Long Beach Poly girls’ swim team is trying to make history this year as they try to win a fourth consecutive Moore League championship. If they succeed, they’d be the first school other than Wilson to four-peat in the Moore League. Longtime coach Kalani Caldwell said there’s advantages and disadvantages to being the hunted, […]
A Long Beach water polo legend passed away last week as Bob Horn passed away at 87 after a long illness. Horn was known most for his legendary career as a men’s swimming and water polo coach at UCLA, but he was a two-time All-American player at Long Beach State in 1957 and 58. Horn […]
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The Aquatic Capital of America held its third annual Hall of Fame banquet last week, on the deck at the Pete Archer Rowing Center. The ACOA inducted 14 worthy athletes in a star-studded event hosted by five-time Olympian and Long Beach legend Tony Azevedo. “Growing up in Long Beach, I knew we were a hotbed […]
Tony Azevedo (left) will MC the banquet while Adam Wright (center) is one of the headlining inductees. Photo courtesy Thomas Cordova. The Aquatic Capital of America will once again induct some of the finest water sport athletes in Long Beach history to its new but already-impressive Hall of Fame. The ACOA will hold its third-annual Hall of […]
David Hein said he can only think of one reason why his childhood dream was to participate in the 62-mile Catalina Ski Race. “Because it’s the most challenging, grueling ski race in the world,” Hein said. Hein won the water ski sprint from Long Beach to Avalon and back at the Novice level six years […]