It’s Women’s History Month, and the girls soccer team at Millikan High School in Long Beach scored a historical win for their school. The lady Rams brought home the CIF girls soccer championship title for the first time since the school’s 1982 inaugural season. <\/p>\n
In six of the last eight years, the team won league but failed to win CIF until this year. Their victory over Ayala High School made them Division 3 CIF Sectional Champions. <\/p>\n
The team wasn’t always so dominant. When head coach Tino Nunez came on board in 2013, the lady Rams were fighting for 3rd in league, but together they grew. <\/p>\n
“‘Believe’ was kind of our go-to, our phrase. So they took that on, and 13 years later, it feels like a body of work,” Nunez said. <\/p>\n
The team’s captain, 17-year-old Savannah Galvan has played competitive soccer since she was 3 years old. “I don’t think my parents have missed a single one of my games,” she said. <\/p>\n
Galvan’s worn medals, held trophies, but the Millikan High School senior wants a new accessory to one day show her future children. “I want to tell them\u2026 look, at some point, I was a cool person too. And I got a ring!”<\/p>\n
Galvan says she is proud to be part of the Millikan soccer program as she heads to UC Santa Barbara soon to play Division 1 soccer. <\/p>\n
“Without them having a program like this\u2026 a lot of schools don’t have soccer. So the fact that they’re even here. It builds our program,” she said. <\/p>\n
The team is gathering community support to fundraise for championship rings to memorialize their history-making season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s Women’s History Month, and the girls soccer team at Millikan High School in Long Beach scored a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-240137","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\/240137","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=240137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}