{"id":291274,"date":"2026-04-29T10:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291274\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T10:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T10:13:09","slug":"nick-macrae-named-big-west-coach-of-the-year-in-breakout-first-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/291274\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick MacRae Named Big West Coach Of The Year In Breakout First Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212; Long Beach State head coach Nick MacRae has been named Big West Coach of the Year , capping a remarkable debut season at the helm of the program. In his first year leading the Beach, MacRae guided Long Beach State to a 24-4 overall record and an 8-2 mark in conference play, culminating in a Big West Championship. The Beach established itself as one of the nation&#8217;s elite programs throughout the season, never falling below No. 3 in the AVCA Coaches Poll. MacRae&#8217;s impact was evident across every phase of the game. Long Beach State finished&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. &#8212; Long Beach State head coach Nick MacRae has been named Big West Coach of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-291274","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\/291274","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=291274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}