{"id":3691,"date":"2009-06-13T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/parade-of-champions-honors-lb-prep-stars\/"},"modified":"2009-06-13T05:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T05:23:00","slug":"parade-of-champions-honors-lb-prep-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/parade-of-champions-honors-lb-prep-stars","title":{"rendered":"Parade Of Champions Honors LB Prep Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

All photos by Shar Higa<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You would have needed a whole fleet of buses to pack in all<\/em> the great high school athletes from Long Beach this year, but they packed as many as they could into three big buses last night for a parade down Pine.\u00a0 <\/span>Athletes from Poly\u2019s CIF champion football team, and state champion track and girls\u2019 basketball teams joined the Millikan boys\u2019 soccer team, Millikan track athletes, and divers from St. Anthony, Millikan, and Poly to honk and wave at passersby on Pine, ending in a huge hamburger dinner at Smooth\u2019s.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson Preciado, of the Rams soccer team, said over dinner that his team (almost all of whom will be attending Cypress College next year) had a great time.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWe were chanting and making the most out of it,\u201d he said.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cIt\u2019s something special\u2014not everybody gets to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poly girls\u2019 basketball coach Carl Buggs said his team had a good time too, though with four straight state titles it\u2019s definitely not their first one.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cPeople are already asking about next year,\u201d he said.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cThey started asking the day after we got back from Sacramento\u2014our principal asked me about it before he gave me the trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The teams unroll their banners<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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The Millikan Rams pose with their trolley<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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Incoming Century Club president Steve Blood hands out food tickets<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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A LBPD officer (and Poly alum) greets track coach Don Norford. \u201cThat\u2019s my school,\u201d he said happily when he saw the state track banner<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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Long Beach\u2019s three CIF champion divers, from Poly, St. Anthony, and Millikan<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s a lot of athletes<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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Raul Lara, Carl Buggs, John Morris, and Don Norford<\/o:p><\/em><\/p>\n

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The many LB champions of 2008-2009 were honored last night in Downtown Long Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"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-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","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=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}