{"id":281716,"date":"2026-04-23T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T08:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:15:12","slug":"long-beach-state-places-three-on-all-big-west-first-team-three-earn-all-freshman-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281716\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Places Three on All-Big West First Team, Three Earn All-Freshman Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Via Long Beach State University Athletics,  9h ago <\/p>\n<p> LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Following a dominant 2026 campaign, Long Beach State men\u2019s volleyball placed three student-athletes on the All-Big West First Team and had three recognized on the conference\u2019s All-Freshman Team, the Big West office announced Wednesday. The trio of freshman middle blocker Jackson Cryst , sophomore libero Kellen Larson and senior opposite Skyler Varga earned First Team honors, highlighting a Long Beach State squad that finished 22-4 overall and 8-2 in Big West play. Cryst emerged as one of the nation\u2019s most efficient middle blockers, hitting .535 on the season with 127 kills (1.37 per set) while adding\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"block-a_d-registration__img\" alt=\"Follow your favorite teams\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/long-beach-state-1-150x150.png\" data-refresh=\"logo\"\/> <a class=\"block-a_d-registration__cta\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bvmsports.com\/account\/create\/?trid=registration-ad\" aria-label=\"Follow your favorite teams\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Follow your favorite teams <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/news\/2026\/4\/22\/mens-volleyball-long-beach-state-places-three-on-all-big-west-first-team-three-earn-all-freshman-honors\" class=\"post-external__source btn link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> Long Beach State University Athletics <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Long Beach State University Athletics, 9h ago LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Following a dominant 2026 campaign, Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-281716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281716","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=281716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}