Women’s Volleyball at the Hawaii Tournament
Long Beach State women’s volleyball goes 1-2 at the Hawaii Classic against an all top 25 field. The volleyball team from Long Beach State ventured to the islands to face three top 25 teams and fared pretty well, beating Ohio State and losing to UCLA and Hawaii in close matches. The Beach played the Bruins, [...]
49er’s take on field at Wahine Classic
Long Beach State’s volleyball team faces trio of top ten teams in Hawaii As a precursor to many trips to come, the Long Beach State 49ers travel to the islands to participate in the Hawaii Rainbow Classic. As usual, the classic attracts some of the best volleyball teams in the country, and this year’s [...]
49ers fall in an emotional match
Long Beach State’s women’s volleyball team lose the Mizuno Tournament final to the Washington Huskies in 4. When the Long Beach State athletic department published their 2011 women’s volleyball schedule, many within the local volleyball community took notice and circled the August 27th date with the Washington Huskies. Both of these heavy weights did not [...]
Women’s Volleyball host their Alumni
The 2011 Long Beach State women’s volleyball season kicks off the new year with an alumni match. The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team hosted their alumni by playing the past greats in an Alumni Match. The event was well attended with alumni players including Barrett, Phillips, Hetzer, Lawlor, Saunders, Green, and of course assistant [...]
W-Soccer: LBSU pushes aside the favored Trojans
The Long Beach State 49ers win their season opener 2-1 on the road against No. 25 USC Trojans. The 49ers continue with some tradition of their own as Long Beach State wins their season opener for the fifth time in six years as they defeat the USC Trojans 2-1. By taking down a top 25 [...]
Sneak Peak: Women’s Volleyball and Soccer
Long Beach State women’s volleyball and soccer programs gave their fans a sneak peak with same day scrimmages. Fans visiting the Long Beach State campus on August 13th were treated to a couple of athletic scrimmages. The women’s volleyball team had their practice open to the public where head coach Brian Gimmillaro explained the finer [...]
August will bring Volleyball Double-Days
The Long Beach State women’s volleyball team will officially begin practice on August 9th, and could field a completely new team with the eight newcomers on the roster. If that was not enough, Head Coach Brian Gimmillaro brings in a new volunteer assistant coach, Rob Koehler, to compliment his staff. With an influx of so many [...]
Rewind: 2010 Women’s Soccer Slideshow
August brings the start of Long Beach State’s 2011 women’s soccer season. Now that we are only two weeks away from the soccer players reporting to camp, it seemed appropriated to get the ball rolling with a tribute to last year’s Big West tournament championship team. The following slideshow contains some of the site’s favorite [...]
Women’s Basketball
Women’s Basketball 2011-2012 Info coming soon. 2011-2012 Roster # NAME POS HT EXP CLASS HOMETOWN 1 Sarah Lottinville Guard 5-7 2L Senior Oxnard, Calif. 2 Bianka Balthazar Guard 5-11 HS Freshman Phoenix, Arizona 4 Lauren Spargo Guard 5-11 HS Freshman Santa Clarita, Calif. 5 Jhakia McDonald Guard 5-8 TR Junior Anaheim, Calif. 10 Ella Clark [...]
Women’s Volleyball
To view the current Spikers Newsletter full screen, press the PDF’s far right button. 2011 Long Beach State Women’s Volleyball 49ers At A Glance: Head Coach Brian Gimmillaro brings into the Walter Pyramid a team with very high expectations this season. Most of the excitement centers around two potential All-Americans in Caitlyn Ledoux (LS) and [...]
Women’s Soccer
2011 Long Beach State Women’s Soccer 49ers At A Glance: Head Coach Mauricio Ingrassia has established a program that now expects to win every season and that should not change this year. The team returns roughly half of their starters from last season’s Big West Tournament Championship team, and has added some quality D1 transfers [...]
Men’s Basketball
LONG BEACH STATE MEN’S BASKETBALL More info coming soon. 2011-2012 Roster # NAME POS HT WT CLASS HOMETOWN 1 Hunter, Shaquille Guard 6-2 170 Freshman Villa Park, Calif. 4 Phelps, Eugene Forward 6-6 235 Senior Los Angeles, Calif. 5 Caffey, Michael Guard 6-0 170 Freshman Corona, Calif. 11 Ennis, James Forward 6-7 200 Junior Ventura, [...]
Men’s Water Polo
Long Beach State Men’s Water Polo Info coming soon. 2011 Schedule DATE OPPONENT RESULT Sept 3 at UC Irvine Tournament Sept 4 at UC Irvine Tournament Sept 10 at Redlands Tournament Sept 11 at Redlands Tournament Sept 17 at NorCal Tournament Sept 18 at NorCal Tournament Sept 24 vs Alumni Oct 1 at SoCal Tournament [...]
Women’s Tennis
Long Beach State Women’s Tennis Info coming soon 2011-2012 Roster # NAME POS HT EXP CLASS HOMETOWN — Laura Bernard — 5-9 HS Freshman Rosieres, Belgium — Sarah Cantlay — 5-10 2L Junior Sevenoaks, England — Anais Dallara — 5-3 3L Senior Valbonne, France — Anna Jeczmionka — 5-9 2L Junior Swarzedz, Poland — Julie [...]
No Beach Party
Strong start does not hold up as Cal Poly pulls away and defeats Long Beach State 83-72 Jan. 2, 2011 Box Score LONG BEACH – The Long Beach State women’s basketball team suffered an 83-72 setback to Cal Poly in a Big West Conference game Sunday afternoon at the Walter Pyramid. The 49ers dropped to [...]
Homecoming
Before a record crowd, the Long Beach State men’s basketball team battled top 25 San Diego State until the very end, losing to the Aztecs 81-65 in a game much closer than the final score. The Pyramid was rocking last night, not only because there was a record crowd in the house, because there were [...]
Walking Wounded
The Long Beach State women’s basketball team opened the exhibition season with a lopsided loss to Cal Poly Pomona, 58-39. Coach Wynn’s 2010-11 team debut did not go off as planed as her team was man handled 58-39 by Cal Poly Pomona, a Division II opponent. With a little background knowledge one could conclude that [...]
Driving it home
The women’s soccer team from Long Beach State honored their seniors before muscling up the Cal State Northridge Matadors 2-1 in their final regular season home match. Staying within the theme of the day, both of the 49er goals were scored by seniors, Lindsay Bullock and Bo Rael, as they set the pace on both [...]
A 1/2 too short
The young ladies from Long Beach State played a very spirited match but just could not get things rolling for a full 90 minutes. No. 15 UCI was able to knock one in late in the 1st half and hold on to beat the 49ers 1-0 in a highly anticipated Big West women’s soccer match. [...]
Bombs Away
The women’s soccer team from Long Beach State plays Beach Ball as they slam the Fullerton Titan’s 5-2. The night was cool but the soccer was anything but as the young ladies from Long Beach State torch Fullerton in a Big West women’s soccer match at Titan Stadium. This was a special night for Lindsay [...]
Weekend Split
LBSU women soccer split their matches during the opening weekend of conference play. Images can be found at: Ballin’ at Da Beach - Flickr - Facebook From LBSU reports Oct. 1, 2010 49ers battle Cal Poly to 1-1 tie in Big West opener Box Score LONG BEACH – The Long Beach State women’s soccer team [...]
Top 25 Win
Long Beach State women soccer defeats top 25 Arizona State 1-0 at George Allen Field Images can be found at: Ballin’ at Da Beach - Flickr - Facebook From Long Beach State reports Box Score LONG BEACH – Junior Shawna Gordon scored the game-winning goal in the 33rd minute as the Long Beach State women’s [...]
WVB: Spikers Newsletter Vol. 2 Issue 7
After mentioning the Spikers Newsletter in one of my previous articles, fans of this site have asked if they can subscribe or view one of the newsletters. The latest newsletter is embedded below and was originally published after returning from the road trip to Colorado. Credit goes to Bill King for putting together this [...]
Big win and unexpected loss
The women’s volleyball team from Long Beach State traveled to Colorado and picked up a big win and a disappointing loss along the way. Images can be found at: Ballin’ at Da Beach - Flickr - Facebook From LBSU reports LBSU vs VCU Long Beach State looked very impressive the first of four matches over [...]
