{"id":3559,"date":"2009-07-16T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/49er-great-monica-havelka-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T05:30:00","slug":"49er-great-monica-havelka-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/49er-great-monica-havelka-passes-away","title":{"rendered":"49er Great Monica Havelka Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size:10pt; line-height: 17px; \"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; font-size:10pt; line-height: 15px; \"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/s_image1247718431-98256.jpg\" style=\"width: 310px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: black; border-right-color: black; border-bottom-color: black; border-left-color: black; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; \" align=\"right\" alt=\"\"><\/span>Sad news to report today, as we just learned that 49er great Monica Havelka, who starred for the Long Beach State women&#8217;s basketball team from 1974-78, recently passed away at the age of 53.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/span>Havelka, who was the first of three players in program history to record over 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds in a career, was inducted into the Long Beach State Hall of Fame in 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:\" trebuchet=\"\" ms\"\"=\"\">In her four years at The Beach, Havelka compiled 1,222 points and 1,086 rebounds, and is still the school&#8217;s all-time leader in rebounding with a career average of 11.7 boards per game. Havelka earned numerous All-America and regional honors. She also played on four national championship AAU teams, was a member of the U.S. squad that won a silver medal at the World University Games in 1977 and played basketball internationally.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:\" trebuchet=\"\" ms\"\"=\"\">Following her career on the court, Havelka turned to rowing where she won a gold medal in the double sculls at the 1983 Pan American Games. She went on to compete for the United States in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>From LBSU reports<\/em><\/span><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An LBSU Hall of Fame member for over two decades, Havelka passed away at the age of 53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":16998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3559"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}