The562’s cross country and track & field coverage is sponsored by Joe Carlson & Debbie Hughes.
There’s no high school track and field program in America that can boast the history that Long Beach Poly can. The Jackrabbits have closets full of Penn Relays wheels and CIF State and CIF Southern Section championship plaques, along with national records and hundreds of Division 1 athletes. The Jackrabbits are the three-time defending CIF-SS Division 1 boys’ track and field champions, and the girls’ won in 2024 and took runner-up to Wilson in the CIF-SS and CIF State meets last year, despite a year of setbacks and tough circumstances.
This year the Jackrabbits have plenty of to be excited about, as always–including one of the best freshman athletes in America…