{"id":3572,"date":"2009-07-13T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/poly-wilson-crack-espn-s-top-50-hs-programs-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2009-07-13T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T05:05:00","slug":"poly-wilson-crack-espn-s-top-50-hs-programs-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/poly-wilson-crack-espn-s-top-50-hs-programs-of-the-year","title":{"rendered":"Poly, Wilson Crack ESPN&#8217;s Top 50 HS Programs Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/s_image1247461468-84895.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: 4px; margin-right: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px; margin-left: 4px; \" align=\"right\" alt=\"\">Assigning points based on teams&#8217; final rankings in their Fab 50 National aggregate, ESPN RISE has announced their top 50 high school programs of the 2008-2009 season\u2014two Long Beach high schools, Poly and Wilson, were honored with top 15 spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Jackrabbits cracked the top ten at number six, thanks to high national rankings in football, girls&#8217; basketball, and the number one national ranking in girls&#8217; track.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Bruins came in at twelfth, thanks in large part to the efforts of Susan Pescar and her boys&#8217; and girls&#8217; volleyball program.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>A top ten boys&#8217; program and a top 25 girls&#8217; squad, coupled with a top 40 girls&#8217; track program, earned Wilson the high spot.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp; <\/span>ESPN astutely pointed out that Wilson would be a perennial high-finisher if they began including aquatics sports rankings (which we hope they will next year).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">16 of the top 50 were from California\u2014other notable teams include Mater Dei at two, Loyola at four, and Concord De La Salle at fifteen.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach&#8217;s oldest athletics programs picked up some great national recognition from ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":17001,"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-3572","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\/3572","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=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}