{"id":164970,"date":"2026-02-05T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:53:09","slug":"elisa-portillo-named-big-west-womens-water-polo-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164970\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisa Portillo Named Big West Women\u2019s Water Polo Player Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0After a record-breaking weekend, senior <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-water-polo\/roster\/elisa-portillo\/6675\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"6675\" target=\"_blank\">Elisa Portillo<\/a> was named Big West Women&#8217;s Water Polo Player of the Week as the league announced this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Portillo led No. 7 Long Beach State (7-4) to a 2-2 weekend at the Triton Invitational after scoring 11 goals\u00a0and surpassing a\u00a020-year\u00a0old\u00a0school record set by Cassie Azevedo\u00a0in 2006.\u00a0The Madrid native now leads the program with 210 goals and half of the season still to go.<\/p>\n<p>The senior attacker leads the team with 33 goals and adds 21 assists to go along with 11 steals and two field blocks.<\/p>\n<p>The Beach will host No. 3 USC (8-1) in their home opener at the renovated Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center. First sprint is scheduled for Noon with live stats provided through TheFOSH.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif.\u00a0\u2013\u00a0After a record-breaking weekend, senior Elisa Portillo was named Big West Women&#8217;s Water Polo Player of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-164970","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\/164970","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=164970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}