The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team is off to a perfect 6-0 start this season and still have yet to lose a set. On Saturday they proved emphatically that they deserve their unanimous No. 1 ranking with a sweep of UCLA on the road at Pauley Pavilion, a rematch of last year’s national championship. […]
It’s pulling away from the curb, but there’s still plenty of room on the Long Beach State men’s volleyball bandwagon. I had a friend tell me she enjoyed my coverage of the team last year and wanted to come out to some matches this year, but was worried about being a bandwagoner, a fair-weather fan […]
The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team has had an up-and-down non-conference schedule that featured impressive wins, baffling losses, and proof that the team is capable on any given night of beating anyone in the Big West. It was no surprise that Long Beach handled UC Riverside easily in its Big West opener, sweeping them […]
After the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team’s four-set loss to UCLA, junior libero/hitter Hailey Harward was seated at a black table waiting for the postmatch press conference to begin. She banged the table and leaned over to head coach Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer. “Ah! We’re so close,” she said. Indeed, the 49ers were tantalizingly close to […]
It was homecoming night in the Walter Pyramid, as the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team played their evening home opener against Seattle U. The 49ers were also looking across the net at assistant coaches Delainey Gregory and Taylor Gregory, the husband-wife tandem of coaches who are both Long Beach State alums. Delainey’s little sister, […]
Long Beach is known for producing championship-caliber athletes and teams—but also for its hearty celebration of its own. When Wilson’s football team beat Poly for the first time in the 1940s, the Bruins literally paraded down 2ndStreet with their marching band and spent the entire night celebrating. The Long Beach State men’s volleyball team has […]
There were so many moments when the match could have slipped away, when the evening could have soured and the season could have come to an end in bitter disappointment. Instead, the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team relied on the grit and determination they’ve developed over the last year and made history. Thanks to […]
Last year the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team had a layoff of nearly two weeks between winning a conference championship and playing in the NCAA Final Four against BYU. The result was a shocking sweep loss to the Cougars, one the 49ers’ coaches privately felt was in part due to their team being cold. […]
The Long Beach Sate men’s volleyball team started off its postseason journey with a bang, sweeping CSU Northridge in the Big West Tournament semifinals. The 49ers downed the Matadors 25-23, 25-13, 25-17. Long Beach State will now face Hawaii at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Big West Championship, with a guaranteed berth in the NCAA […]
In the fifth set, in the final match of the regular season, the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team finally lost. The 49ers had won their first 24 matches of the season, the best start in program history and the longest win streak in program history. But the night after an epic five-set battle in […]