{"id":311256,"date":"2026-05-12T01:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311256\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:55:07","slug":"the562-orgs-athletes-of-the-week-the562-org-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/311256\/","title":{"rendered":"The562.org\u2019s Athletes of the Week \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The562\u2019s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the562.org\/2022\/03\/23\/the-century-club-sponsors-the562-orgs-athletes-of-the-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach Century Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to our Athletes of the Week and thanks to the Long Beach Century Club and Naples Rib Company for their support.<\/p>\n<p>HIGH SCHOOL<\/p>\n<p>Daunte Bell, Millikan Baseball<\/p>\n<p>Daunte Bell earned another Athlete of the Week honor with his performance against Lakewood High School. The ace pitched a complete game against the Lancers, racking up seven strikeouts and giving up no walks while also hitting an inside-the-park home run to power Millikan\u2019s offense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nico Thiem, Wilson Baseball\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even with a shorthanded lineup, Wilson baseball claimed a big Moore League baseball victory over rivals Long Beach Poly. Nico Thiem went 2-for-3 in the 6-2 win with an RBI triple.<\/p>\n<p>Brayden Ogawa, Long Beach Poly Boys\u2019 Swim and Dive<\/p>\n<p>Brayden Ogawa captured a big diving win for the Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits in CIF. In Division I, Ogawa was the champion diver as only a freshman.<\/p>\n<p>COLLEGE<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Gregory, LBSU Track &amp; Field<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State\u2019s Ryan Gregory won the Big West decathlon championship last weekend. Gregory had first-place finishes in the 110-meter hurdles, pole vault and the 1500-meters.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Hackett, LBCC Swim &amp; Dive<\/p>\n<p>Louis Hackett was named the SCC Men\u2019s Diving Athlete of the Year. The freshman diver earned the honor after capturing the conference title on the 1-meter board.<\/p>\n<p>Samira Semaan, LBCC Swim &amp; Dive<\/p>\n<p>LBCC Women\u2019s Swim had a dominant year in the water and Samira Semaan led the charge. Semaan consistently placed first in all of her events, winning Co-Swimmer of the Year honors.<\/p>\n<p>Lina Apodaca, LBSU Softball<\/p>\n<p>Lina Apodaca was a standout for the Beach this year, finishing with a team-high batting average of .373 and a .937 OPS. She also collected the most hits with 73 and most doubles with 21 on the season, collecting three hits, an RBI and two doubles in Long Beach State\u2019s final two games this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The562\u2019s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the Long Beach Century Club. Congratulations to our Athletes of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-311256","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\/311256","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=311256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}