{"id":290516,"date":"2026-04-28T23:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290516\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T23:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T23:47:08","slug":"beach-adds-junior-college-all-american-in-mccaden-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/290516\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Adds Junior College All-American in McCaden Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 The Beach is excited to announce the commitment of First Team NJCAA All-American McCaden Adams, who joins the Beach following two outstanding seasons at Snow College.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMcCaden Adams | Guard | 6-4, 185 | Pleasant Grove, Utah<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAdams was the star of the Snow College program last season, leading the Badgers to a 29-5 overall record and two straight NJCAA National Tournament appearances in each of his two seasons in Utah. He was both the team&#8217;s and conference&#8217;s leading scorer at 18.4 points per game, shooting over 40% from three while averaging over three assists per game. He scored nearly 1,000 points over two seasons at Snow College, who were ranked No. 1 nationally in each of his two seasons there.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAcker on Adams:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n&#8220;McCaden Adams comes to us as a JUCO All-American with Division I experience, bringing both individual excellence and a winning pedigree from his time at Snow College. His accolades speak to his impact on the floor, while his role in a highly successful program reflects his ability to contribute to winning at a high level. McCaden plays with confidence, competitiveness, and a strong understanding of the game, all of which align with what we value in our program. We&#8217;re incredibly excited to welcome not only McCaden, but also his wife Sadie, into our family, and we look forward to the impact he&#8217;ll make both on and off the court.&#8221;<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAdams played at Snow College with another newcomer to Long Beach State in point guard Blake Bahr, and is the third signee of the summer group alongside Division I transfer Kaleb Smith. \u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 The Beach is excited to announce the commitment of First Team NJCAA All-American McCaden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-290516","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\/290516","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=290516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}