{"id":123084,"date":"2026-01-07T03:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/123084\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T03:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T03:57:07","slug":"hall-of-fame-spotlight-andy-sythe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/123084\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall Of Fame Spotlight: Andy Sythe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Our spotlights continue in advance of the 2026 induction class for the Long Beach State Athletics Hall of Fame as we take a look at legendary coach Andy Sythe. Joining the Hall of Fame as a coach will be the freshly retired Andy Sythe, after 35 years at the helm of Long Beach State Track &amp; Field. Over his tenure, he was named Big West Track and Field Coach of the Year 11 times, guided the program to eight Big West Men&#8217;s Track and Field Championships and three Women&#8217;s Championships, and coached his student-athletes to 77&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Our spotlights continue in advance of the 2026 induction class for the Long Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-123084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}