LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State placed five student-athletes on the 2025-26 Big West Winter Academic All-Conference Team, the conference office announced.<\/p>\n
Representing the Beach from women’s basketball were JaQuoia Jones-Brown<\/a>, Kennan Ka<\/a> (4.00 GPA), Christy Reynoso<\/a>, Tairat Samuel-Afolabi<\/a>, and Haley Wright<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jones-Brown and Reynoso, both communications majors, earned recognition in their sophomore seasons, while Samuel-Afolabi and Wright added honors as psychology majors. Ka, a graduate student pursuing an MBA, rounded out the group.<\/p>\n To be eligible for Big West All-Academic honors, student-athletes must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, have completed at least one full academic year at their institution, and competed in at least 50 percent of their team’s contests.<\/p>\n Long Beach State’s five selections came from a women’s basketball contingent that featured 49 honorees across the conference, highlighting both academic achievement and competitive commitment during the winter season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Long Beach State placed five student-athletes on the 2025-26 Big West Winter Academic All-Conference…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-269966","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\/269966","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=269966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}