{"id":367352,"date":"2026-06-19T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367352\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:10:10","slug":"wilsons-clara-adams-is-the-press-telegram-girls-athlete-of-the-year-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367352\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson\u2019s Clara Adams is the Press-Telegram Girls Athlete of the Year \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRESS-TELEGRAM GIRLS ATHLETE OF THE YEAR 2025-26<\/p>\n

Name: Clara Adams<\/p>\n

School: Long Beach Wilson<\/p>\n

Year: Junior<\/p>\n

Sport: Track and field<\/p>\n

Notable highlights: Wilson junior sprinter Clara Adams has been selected as the Press-Telegram girls athlete of the year after winning individual state titles in the 200 and 400 meters<\/a> at the CIF State Track and Field Championships. Adams also ran on Wilson\u2019s 4\u00d7400 relay that finished first and helped the Bruins win their fourth consecutive state team title.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels really good and I\u2019m really proud of myself because the average person probably wouldn\u2019t be able to do something like that,\u201d Adams said. \u201cAnd it just tells me that anywhere I go, anywhere I move, wherever I run, I\u2019m doing something. I\u2019m a name. I\u2019m someone to look out for, and it just tells me the kind of athlete I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Clara Adams is a Press-Telegram athlete of the year at Wilson High School in Long Beach on Thursday, June 11, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Clara Adams is a Press-Telegram athlete of the year at Wilson High School in Long Beach on Thursday, June 11, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Sprinter Clara Adams is a Press-Telegram athlete of the year at Wilson High School in Long Beach on Thursday, June 11, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Long Beach Wilson\u2019s Clara Adams wins the 400 meters at the Moore League track and field finals on Thursday, April 30, 2026, at Long Beach Poly High School in Long Beach. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n

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Clara Adams is a Press-Telegram athlete of the year at Wilson High School in Long Beach on Thursday, June 11, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Adams\u2019 season included her setting a school record in the 400 (51.98) at the CIF-SS Masters Meet on May 23. During the same meet, she helped set new school and California records in the 4\u00d7400 relay in 3:33.83.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels good to have records like that at a school like (Wilson),\u201d Adams continued. \u201cIt took a lot of hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wilson coach Neil Nelson said Adams, a transfer from North Salinas High School, made an immediate impact in her first season as a Bruin.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey respect what she did (and) it pushed the team,\u201d Nelson explained. \u201cI think everybody was like, we have to step our game up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The senior, who also won Moore League titles in the 200 and 400, is looking forward to running faster next season.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow moving forward, it\u2019s just about breaking my own records,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRESS-TELEGRAM GIRLS ATHLETE OF THE YEAR 2025-26 Name: Clara Adams School: Long Beach Wilson Year: Junior Sport: Track…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,5479,2044,33214,131,133,132,137,127,136],"class_list":["post-367352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-high-school-all-sports","tag-high-school-sports","tag-high-school-track","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-sports","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367352","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=367352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}