For the second consecutive year, the Long Beach Century Club and Smooth’s Sports Bar & Grille took the time to honor the city’s finest high school teams and athletes in a way that the teens will never forget.  The Parade of Champions shines a light on all of the national, state and CIF title-winners of the 2007-08 school year, in a way that must be uniquely Long Beach – no other city in America can possibly boast similar accomplishments in just one year.

The Long Beach Drum Corps provides a warm welcome as the athletes enter Smooth’s.

The city’s home of athletic achievement.

(L-R) Paul Martinez, Travis Clock, Ryan Tyhurst and Kyle Geraghty of the CIF runner-up Millikan Rams wrestling team.

Coach Lorene Morgan of the CIF runner-up Millikan Rams girls basketball squad.

A plaque on the wall of Smooth’s commemorating the Wilson girls soccer team’s 2008 national championship.