{"id":294206,"date":"2026-05-01T02:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/294206\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:04:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:04:43","slug":"hagenah-and-gementera-first-team-all-americans-for-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/294206\/","title":{"rendered":"Hagenah And Gementera First Team All-Americans For Third Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Seniors <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/malia-gementera\/9971\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9971\" target=\"_blank\">Malia Gementera<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/womens-beach-volleyball\/roster\/taylor-hagenah\/9972\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"9972\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Hagenah<\/a> were selected as First Team All-Americans by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, earning the honor for the third time in their careers.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHagenah and Gementera again led from the front for Long Beach State. The duo has played together throughout their entire four-year careers as the Beach and did so again in 2026, recording a team-best 24 wins this season. Their efforts helped lead Long Beach State to a Top 10 ranking throughout the year and a fourth consecutive NCAA Championship appearance as an at-large selection.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe seniors were already two of just six players to be named AVCA All-America in program history, and now stand alone as the only three-time selections, having previously earned First Team All-America in 2024 and 2025.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe duo enter the NCAA Championships with a program record 119 wins, and have done so while playing primarily in the top flight over four seasons, recording an overall winning percentage that ranks in the Top 5 in program history. The pair are four-team First Team All-Big West selections as well.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGementera and Hagenah and have carried on a legacy that has seen Long Beach State reach four straight NCAA tournaments in their four seasons, win the program&#8217;s first two Big West Championships, and help the team maintain a standard of ranking among the nation&#8217;s elite programs.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLong Beach State opens the NCAA Tournament on Friday afternoon, facing California at 10 a.m. PT on ESPN2 from Gulf Shores, Alabama.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Seniors Malia Gementera and Taylor Hagenah were selected as First Team All-Americans by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-294206","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\/294206","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=294206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}