{"id":51885,"date":"2025-11-13T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51885\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:55:15","slug":"long-beach-state-mens-basketball-signs-max-vanlaningham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51885\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Men\u2019s Basketball Signs Max VanLaningham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/longbeachstate.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/chris-acker\/1389\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1389\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Acker<\/a> and his staff have added one high school recruit in the early signing period, securing the commitment of Max VanLaningham from Woodcreek High School.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMax VanLaningham | 6-8 | Forward | Roseville, Calif. <br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nVanLaningham is a big man out of Roseville, Calif., who is rated in the Top 50 at his position by both ESPN and 24\/7 Sports as well as earning a consensus Top 30 in the class out of the state of California. Last season, with Woodcreek High School, VanLaningham averaged close to a double-double at 15.8 points and 9.8 rebounds per game, showing consistent improvement over his last three seasons while looking for a breakout final season. He helped lead Woodcreek to a 24-8 overall record last season and reaching the CIF-Sac Joaquin Division 2 semifinals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAcker on VanLaningham:<br \/>\n&#8220;Max is a very important recruit as we continue to build our program, and I&#8217;m so excited to have him join us. We were looking for a player that would come in and be willing to do anything that was asked of him to help us win. We were looking for a guy that could play and guard multiple positions with a chip on his shoulder, and Max is absolutely that guy. I&#8217;m really looking forward to what he&#8217;ll show our fans when he arrives on campus next season.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 Chris Acker and his staff have added one high school recruit in the early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-51885","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\/51885","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=51885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}