The562 is excited to announce that Vertical Raise is now our official team fundraising partner for the 2022-2023 school year. In addition, Vertical Raise will be sponsoring all of The562’s season previews for the upcoming school year. Vertical Raise helps high school teams easily raise much-needed funds for their season with their premium online donation […]
NUMBER EIGHT There aren’t many high school rivalries like the softball games between Millikan and Lakewood at Lisa Fernandez Field. The Rams and Lancers play under the lights at Mayfair Park twice a year, and this season gave us two of the best games of the year. In March, the rivals traded the lead in […]
NUMBER NINE Long Beach Poly came up 10 points short of the program’s 21st CIF-SS championship in a 78-69 defeat at Village Christian in the Division 2AA final, but it was still a memorable season for the state’s all-time wins leader. The Jackrabbits’ thrilling 50-45 win over Foothill on the road–behind 25 points from senior […]
Sometimes it’s difficult to get all of the Long Beach schools into our annual Top 10 moments countdown of the best high school sports we saw over the last 12 months, but this athletic year was full of top performances from all over the city. NUMBER TEN As Long Beach Poly boys’ athletic director Rob […]
After a two-year absence caused by COVID-19, the Long Beach Century Club’s Sports Night Banquet recently made its return in a packed house at the Grand. The club’s 65th awards banquet recognized the top high school and college athletes in the city, as well as many volunteers from the local sports world, and also crowned this […]
We’re thrilled to be in our ninth year of presenting the Grunion Sports and The562.org’s All-City Awards, a revival of a beloved city tradition. This week we’ll be presenting our individual All-City Athletes of the Year awards to the top performers in each sport, then next week we’ll name our top boy and girl athlete […]
The Long Beach Heartwell Fast Pitch 10U Softball All-Star silver team is starting the California State Championships in Lancaster today. The games will last for three days. The silver teams from local leagues are not made up of the top players, so they usually lose in the early rounds, but this group of local youth […]
Here are the All-Moore League honorees for badminton following the 2022 season.
All of The562’s water polo coverage for the 2021-22 school year is sponsored by Aqualand. Visit AqualandOfTheFree.com to learn more. The Millikan Rams have new leadership for their boys’ aquatics program after the hiring of accomplished water polo player and coach Randy Wright. A Long Beach native, Wright is excited to be back in his hometown where […]
Growing up in Long Beach, playing basketball at the JCC as a kid and at Long Beach Poly as he grew, Peyton Watson dreamed of the moment that happened last night. The Long Beach and Bixby Knolls native was in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn where he heard NBA commissioner Adam Silver announce his name […]