{"id":502701,"date":"2026-10-20T23:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502701\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T23:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T23:12:18","slug":"press-telegram-boys-athlete-of-the-week-hector-diaz-millikan-press-telegram-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/502701\/","title":{"rendered":"Press-Telegram Boys Athlete of the Week: Hector Diaz, Millikan \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Noteworthy: The senior won the second Moore League cross county race of the season at El Dorado Park in Long Beach on Oct. 14. Diaz had a time of 14 minutes, 59.6 seconds over 3 miles. He led Millikan to the team victory over Wilson and Long Beach Poly. The Moore League Finals will be at Heartwell Park on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Millikan\u2019s Hector Diaz comes in first in the boys varsity...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LPT-L-HSXC-MLMEET-1015-TR16-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Millikan\u2019s Hector Diaz comes in first in the boys varsity Moore League Cross Country meet in Long Beach, CA, on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. (Photo by Tracey Roman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Millikan\u2019s Hector Diaz leads in the boys Cross Country Meet...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LPT-L-HSXC-MLMEET-1015-TR13-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Millikan\u2019s Hector Diaz leads in the boys Cross Country Meet at El Dorado Park in Long Beach, CA, on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. (Photo by Tracey Roman, Contributing Photographer)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Millikan senior Hector Diaz was named the Press-Telegram Boys Athlete...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.presstelegram.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/LPT-L-HS-BAOW-1021-01-1.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Millikan senior Hector Diaz was named the Press-Telegram Boys Athlete of the Week after winning the Moore League cross country meet at El Dorado Park in Long Beach on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (Photo by John W. Davis)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Millikan\u2019s Hector Diaz comes in first in the boys varsity Moore League Cross Country meet in Long Beach, CA, on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. (Photo by Tracey Roman, 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 senior won the second Moore League cross county race of the season at El Dorado Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5478,7,5479,14411,2044,131,133,132,137,127],"class_list":["post-502701","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-cross-country","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\/502701","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=502701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}