{"id":207605,"date":"2026-03-06T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207605\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:24:08","slug":"rebel-duo-ready-to-kick-off-outdoor-season-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/207605\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Duo Ready To Kick Off Outdoor Season In Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) &#8211; UNLV track &amp; field&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/unlvrebels.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/sophia-clark\/16557\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16557\" target=\"_blank\">Sophia Clark<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/unlvrebels.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/roxene-simpson\/16446\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16446\" target=\"_blank\">Roxene Simpson<\/a> will compete in the team&#8217;s first outdoor meet of the 2025-26 season this upcoming weekend, traveling to Long Beach for the Beach Opener where they will compete in the discus throw on Saturday, March 7 at 10 am at Jack Rose Track.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSimpson heads into the Beach Opener with a personal best mark of 51.66m (169&#8242; 6&#8243;) held at last season&#8217;s Mountain West Outdoor Track &amp; Field Championships, where she placed fifth overall. Additionally, Clark sits with a personal best discus throw of 42.76m (140&#8242; 3&#8243;) held at the Desert Heat Classic in 2025. Simpson is seeded third in the discus throw this weekend, while Clark is seeded 14th overall.<\/p>\n<p>To get updates on all things Rebel track &amp; field, links to the season&#8217;s meets can be found on the team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/unlvrebels.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/schedule\/2023-24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">schedule page<\/a>. You can also get live updates on how the Scarlet &amp; Gray are faring on the team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNLVtfxc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> (formerly known as Twitter) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unlvtfxc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> accounts.<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) &#8211; UNLV track &amp; field&#8217;s Sophia Clark and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-207605","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\/207605","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=207605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}