General 2 — Long Beach Poly PACE

Scholars and Champions

PACE Students balance a rigorous class schedule with extracurricular activities—many of whom are student athletes. Check them out!

PACE Student Athletes.

Alex Valente, class of 2025, is the starting center back on the Poly Girls Varisty Soccer team. Like many PACE students, she’s a scholar athlete and as part of our Grammy winning Choir program she rounds it all out as a musician. #polypace #sch

Pace senior Camille Lindsay had been sidleined for much of the 2022 Girls XC season due to injury, and had come down with the flu prior to this race.

That didn’t stop her from finishing second in the Moore Leauge finals with a time of 19:13.

Congrats to PACE junior Luke Cassiano for winning @the562org athlete of the week!

Luke led the Jackrabbits with 6 goals all in the first half of a 23-1 win over Millikan on Wednesday. #youcandoitall

Pace junior Kate Montemayor is one of the top stars for the Poly Girls Golf team. She qualified for CIF individuals as a freshman and finished fourth in the Moore league last year!

Kate has also won multiple medals, including one last Tuesday for s

PACE junior Evelyn Hernandez-Lujan is one of the top runners for the Poly Girls Cross country team. She was one of just 7 girls to be invited to participate in the Nike XC event in Portland! #youcandoitall #scholarsandchampions

Photo credit: @allin

A huge congrats to PACE freshman cross country star Avery Peck for winning the @the562org athlete of the week!

Avery was dominant in her first Moore league race, beating her closest opponent by over one minute, while finishing the 3 mile course in

Vincent Santos runs cross country and track. He also plays trumpet and piano in the Poly Jazz A band and Marching Band and is “sill on his 4.0 streak.” He is also able to be active in clubs and fill leadership roles.

His favorite races

Tiare Ho-Ching, class of 2024, is a star on the Poly Softball team primarily playing middle infield but versatile enough to play all positions. She’s also on the track team and excels academically. Coach Sanchez tells me, “This girl is de

Nico Song is a PACE Senior on the water polo team. He’s a great teammate and student and is able to work hard at his sport while maintaining a 4.0.

Also, this picture suggests that being a PACE athlete may give you superpowers.

Amazing photo

While the entire girls cross country team isn’t in PACE we’d like to think there are enough to dispel the myth that you can’t be in PACE and be an athlete.

The fact is that PACE allows more flexibility in scheduling than many of L

As of April 26, 2021, Taylor Johnson (class of 2024) had run the fastest 200 meter for a freshman in the State of California 2021.

A star athlete and an outstanding student! Check out Taylor’s prize winning video about student athlete compensation on our C-SPAN Page.

Sofia Brys had a strong sophomore year for Poly’s Swim team. She won The562.org’s athlete of the week award back in March for winning three events in a meet against Wilson. She won the 200 individual medley and the 100 backstroke, as well as swimming a strong leg on Poly’s winning 200 medley relay. Sofia also had a strong performance in the Moore League Championship meet, winning the 200 IM and the 100 Butterfly.

Aside from swimming, Sofia is a star cello player. She was placed in both the All-Southern South Orchestra and the Coda String Orchestra, two of the highest orchestra groups in all of California.

Nathan Brava-Partain had a stellar year for the Poly Boy’s Golf team. He earned a medal for his performance in March’s Poly vs Wilson match, shooting a one-under round of 35. In May, Nathan was one of 6 golfers in Long Beach to advance to the CIF-SS Individual competition, having advanced past the final round of Moore Leauge Individual.

In addition to being an excellent student, Nathan is a jazz musician and is part of Poly’s Model UN program.

Moore League 2021 Champion PACE Students

100 Breaststroke: Kate Cassiano 1:09.58

100 Back: Sofia Brys 1:01.15

100 Free: Georgia Buffington (Poly) 54.26

200 Medley Relay: (Brys, Cassiano, Salcedo, Sumortin) 1:51.62

200 Free Relay: (Buffington, Garcia, Hong, Sumortin) 1:39.68

Moore League 2021 Lacrosse Champions

PACE student athletes, Cannon Carillo, Jadyn Myers, Kyle Johnson and Philip Kenderson contributed to Poly’s Lacrosse team capturing the first ever Boys’ Lacrosse Moore League Championship.