{"id":160831,"date":"2026-02-02T21:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160831\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:33:06","slug":"the562-orgs-athletes-of-the-week-the562-org-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160831\/","title":{"rendered":"The562.org\u2019s Athletes of the Week \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The562\u2019s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.the562.org\/2022\/03\/23\/the-century-club-sponsors-the562-orgs-athletes-of-the-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach Century Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks to the Long Beach Century Club and Naples Rib Company for their support.<\/p>\n<p>High School<\/p>\n<p>Grant Johnson, Millikan Boys\u2019 Soccer<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Grant Johnson helped lead an active front line for Millikan on Friday night against Lakewood, putting 5 of his 6 shots on target and scoring a first-half goal for the Rams. Millikan went on to defeat the Lancers 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>Alvino Duncan, Jordan Boys\u2019 Basketball<\/p>\n<p>Junior Alvino Duncan drilled the game-winning three as time expired in Jordan\u2019s win over Cabrillo. The Panthers swarmed the southpaw in front of the scorer\u2019s table and hoisted him in the air following the heroic shot.<\/p>\n<p>Madi Emigh, Wilson Girls\u2019 Wrestling<\/p>\n<p>The junior won her first match at the Moore League finals to claim the 100-pound title. Emigh was Wilson\u2019s lone champion this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kailee Muk, Lakewood Girls\u2019 Wrestling<\/p>\n<p>Muk won her first Moore League title with a win to claim this year\u2019s 115-pound title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amiyah McIntyre, Millikan Girls\u2019 Wrestling<\/p>\n<p>McIntyre capped her senior year with the 130-pound title, her first Moore League championship.<\/p>\n<p>Emelia Defour, Jordan Girls\u2019 Wrestling<\/p>\n<p>Defour won her first Moore League title after finishing third the previous two years, claiming the 155-pound championship.<\/p>\n<p>College<\/p>\n<p>Elisa Portillo, Long Beach State Women\u2019s Water Polo<\/p>\n<p>Senior Elisa Portillo made history against Hawai\u2019i, scoring her 210th career goal to pass Cassie Azevedo\u2019s school record set in 2006. Portillo breaks the two-decade-long record with most of her senior season still to come.<\/p>\n<p>Skyler Varga, Long Beach State Men\u2019s Volleyball<\/p>\n<p>Senior Skyler Varga helped lift the Long Beach State men\u2019s volleyball team over its first top-10 ranked opponent of the year at Pepperdine. Varga led the way with a match-high 18 kills on .417 hitting while adding eight digs and three blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the\u00a0Long Beach Century Club. Congratulations to our Athletes of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-160831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160831","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=160831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}