{"id":125486,"date":"2026-01-08T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125486\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T18:47:08","slug":"hall-of-fame-spotlight-angelica-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/125486\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall Of Fame Spotlight: Angelica Garcia"},"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 Angelica Garcia from Women&#8217;s Water Polo.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAngelica Garcia was one of the early stars of Long Beach State Women&#8217;s Water Polo, helping guide the Beach to one of its most successful periods. A four-time All-American, Garcia was named to the First Team as a senior as Long Beach State finished the season ranked No. 4 in the nation for the third consecutive year, posting a 21-9 overall record. She is one of just two players in program history to score over 200 goals, ranking second with 206 behind now fellow Long Beach State Hall of Famer Cassie Azevedo.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJoin us for a memorable evening on Wednesday, January 21 as we induct the 2026 Hall of Fame Class. The ceremony will be held at the Long Beach Airport Marriott beginning at 6 p.m. Purchase your tickets at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachstate.com\/HOFtickets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.longbeachstate.com\/HOFtickets<\/a> or contact Assistant Director of Special Events <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/news\/2026\/1\/8\/mailto:Jace.Pardon@csulb.edu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jace Pardon<\/a> for more information.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/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":125487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-125486","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\/125486","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=125486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}