{"id":214685,"date":"2026-03-11T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214685\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T10:46:08","slug":"gavin-sykes-named-big-west-freshman-of-the-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214685\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Sykes Named Big West Freshman Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 After an outstanding first season at <a href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/ncaa\/long-beach-state-beach\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach State<\/a>, Gavin Sykes was named the Big West Freshman of the Year as announced by the conference office on Tuesday. Sykes also earned Second Team All-Big West honors and was joined in recognition from the league&#8217;s coaches by sophomore Petar Majstorovic , who received Honorable Mention. Sykes ended the season with a 34-point performance in a win at Hawai&#8217;i, closing the season averaging 19.4 points per game, one of six elite freshman scorers in the nation averaging over 19 points per game. He broke the freshman season scoring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 After an outstanding first season at Long Beach State, Gavin Sykes was named the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-214685","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\/214685","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=214685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}