{"id":443266,"date":"2026-08-25T18:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443266\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:56:10","slug":"press-telegram-boys-athlete-of-the-week-sammy-timu-long-beach-poly-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/443266\/","title":{"rendered":"Press-Telegram Boys Athlete of the Week: Sammy Timu, Long Beach Poly \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noteworthy: The junior scored Long Beach Poly\u2019s first touchdown of the season on a fumble returned and added two sacks. Timu played offensive line and defensive line all night in Poly\u2019s 24-7 victory against Downey in a season opener on Aug. 21.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach Poly\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Sammy Timu scores on an interception in...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LPT-L-HSFB-LBPOLY-DOW-0822-2-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Poly\u2019s Sammy Timu scores on an interception in the first quarter as Poly defeats Downey in a non-league game and season opener for both teams on Friday August 21, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Long Beach Poly\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Sammy Timu scores on an interception in...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LPT-L-HSFB-LBPOLY-DOW-0822-1-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Poly\u2019s Sammy Timu scores on an interception in the first quarter as Poly defeats Downey in a non-league game and season opener for both teams on Friday August 21, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Junior Sammy Timu has been named the Press-Telegram Boys Athlete...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/LPT-L-HS-BAOW-0826-01-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Junior Sammy Timu has been named the Press-Telegram Boys Athlete of the Week after scoring a defensive touchdown and two sacks in Long Beach Poly\u2019s season opening victory at Downey on Aug. 21, 2026. (Photo by John W. Davis)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Poly\u2019s Sammy Timu scores on an interception in the first quarter as Poly defeats Downey in a non-league game and season opener for both teams on Friday August 21, 2026. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noteworthy: The junior scored Long Beach Poly\u2019s first touchdown of the season on a fumble returned and added&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5478,7,5479,2043,2044,131,133,132,137,127],"class_list":["post-443266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-athlete-of-the-week","tag-california","tag-high-school-all-sports","tag-high-school-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443266","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=443266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}