{"id":224077,"date":"2026-03-17T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224077\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:55:09","slug":"jephte-tchami-long-beach-poly-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224077\/","title":{"rendered":"Jephte Tchami, Long Beach Poly \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press-Telegram Boys Athlete of the Week:<\/p>\n<p>Name: Jephte Tchami<\/p>\n<p>School: Long Beach Poly<\/p>\n<p>Sport: Track and field<\/p>\n<p>Year:\u00a0Senior<\/p>\n<p>Noteworthy:\u00a0The senior set a new Long Beach Poly school record in the discus with a throw of 175 feet and 10 inches at the Redondo Invitational on March 14. Tchami broke John Hubbell\u2019s record of 169 feet and 10 inches, which was set back in 1966. Tchami\u2019s throw lands him 7th in California and 17th in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach Poly senior Jephte Tchami set a new school...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LPT-L-HS-BOYSAOW-0318-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Poly senior Jephte Tchami set a new school record in the discus at the Redondo Invitational on Saturday, March 14, 2026. (Photo courtesy: Long Beach Poly track and field)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach Poly senior Jephte Tchami set a new school...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LPT-L-HS-BOYSAOW-0318-02.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LPT-L-HS-BOYSAOW-0318-02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Poly senior Jephte Tchami set a new school record in the discus at the Redondo Invitational on Saturday, March 14, 2026. (Photo courtesy: Long Beach Poly track and field)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach Poly senior Jephte Tchami set a new school...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LPT-L-HS-BOYSAOW-0318-01-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LPT-L-HS-BOYSAOW-0318-01-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Poly senior Jephte Tchami set a new school record in the discus at the Redondo Invitational on Saturday, March 14, 2026. (Photo courtesy: Long Beach Poly track and field)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Poly senior Jephte Tchami set a new school record in the discus at the Redondo Invitational on Saturday, March 14, 2026. (Photo courtesy: Long Beach Poly track and field)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press-Telegram Boys Athlete of the Week: Name: Jephte Tchami School: Long Beach Poly Sport: Track and field Year:\u00a0Senior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5478,7,5479,2044,33214,131,133,132,137,127,77],"class_list":["post-224077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-athlete-of-the-week","tag-california","tag-high-school-all-sports","tag-high-school-sports","tag-high-school-track","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-sports","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224077","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=224077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}