{"id":47070,"date":"2025-11-10T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/47070\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T21:23:09","slug":"the562-orgs-athletes-of-the-week-the562-org-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/47070\/","title":{"rendered":"The562.org\u2019s Athletes of the Week \u2013 The562.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img width=\"1210\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-10-at-1.17.14\u202fPM-1210x642.jpg\" class=\"attachment-editorial-single-large size-editorial-single-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Screenshot 2025 11 10 at 1.17.14\u202fPM\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<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>Jack Walsh, Millikan Boys\u2019 Cross Country<\/p>\n<p>The Moore League cross country season wrapped up last week at Heartwell Park. Millikan junior Jack Walsh was the individual champion on the boys\u2019 side, running a time of 15:19.26. This time led the Rams to their third consecutive league title, something that hasn\u2019t been done in the program since 1977-79.<\/p>\n<p>Nadia Mejia, Wilson Girls\u2019 Cross Country<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s Nadia Mejia picked up her third Athlete of the Week honor after claiming the Moore League individual champion title. Mejia ran a time of 17:43.70 to take the girls\u2019 gold in the Moore League Cross Country championships.<\/p>\n<p>COLLEGE<\/p>\n<p>Joe Jenness, LBSU Men\u2019s Water Polo<\/p>\n<p>No. 9 Long Beach State secured the Big West title with a dominant 11-4 win over No. 8 UC Davis. The win was highlighted by the Beach\u2019s defense, led by Jenness and his 12 saves in the cage.<\/p>\n<p>Thea Jagare, LBSU Women\u2019s Tennis<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach State Women\u2019s Tennis had a successful showing at the CSUN Fall Invitational, with Jagare finding victories in her doubles and singles competition. Jagare was the only Beach representative to win a singles match, defeating Arkansas State\u2019s Anna Grigoreva 7-5, 7-5. She also teamed up with Paulina Franco to beat a San Jose State duo as LBSU swept the doubles competition across the board.<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The562\u2019s Athletes of the Week is sponsored by the Long Beach Century Club. Congratulations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-47070","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\/47070","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=47070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}