The LB Fee Show

It's time for a couple of victory laps and a couple of Andys! Andy Fee and the guys talk through the year and it's final achievement for the department, the Commissioner's Cup, and then Andy Sythe comes on to talk through the 1-2 finish for the Track and Field Championships and prep for Jason Smith's double at the upcoming NCAA Championship.

Andy and the guys talk through the Men's Volleyball run to the title game, the pair of no-hitters from last week, and we dive deep with Crystal Washington in advance of this weekend's Big West Track and Field Championships! #GoBeach

Alphabet Soup this week on the LB Fee Show, talking INFLCR for NIL! We also prep for the NCAA Championship for Men's Volleyball, the Big West Championship for Beach Volleyball, and bring on Michael Wilson and Bryce Kvick to prep for the Men's Golf championship! #GoBeach

Spring Championship Season has begun as we begin to hit the home stretch! We caught up with one of those sports as the guest, as Mike Campbell and Emily Mattoon joined us to talk about their season and the explosive growth of Beach Volleyball across the country. Don't miss it!

Exciting times as Long Beach State's spring sports are in session and all finding success! With No. 2 Men's Volleyball set to host No. 4 Hawai'i this weekend, we spoke to Libero Mason Briggs in a great interview to preview the match!

Both the Men's and Women's Basketball programs are headed to the postseason!! Andy and the guys talk through the BWT and a late switch for the Dirtbags, JJ then talked in depth with thrower Charlie Vernoy in advance of his successful trip to the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships! #GoBeach

Andy and JJ run through an incredible busy week at Long Beach State, and then Shana Welch and Jamie Oberman join the pod to talk about their successful weekend and season so far! #GoBeach

The Top 25 Dirtbags get going this week with one of the nation's premier opening weekend series at Mississippi State, so we had Eric Valenzuela on to talk about his team and upcoming season, and JJ and Andy work through big weeks for No. 1 Men's Volleyball, first-place Men's Basketball, and all of the other streaking teams at the Beach! #GoBeach

We dive deep with Kim Sowder as the defending Big West champs, Long Beach State Softball, get ready to start the 2022 campaign, and Andy and JJ share some Dirtbags news and whip around the teams in action who are all playing well! #GoBeach

Andy and the guys run through a quick news update, talk about the new improved lights at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field, and a good week for the basketball and volleyball programs. We then dive deep with new Women's Volleyball head coach Tyler Hildebrand on coming back to the Beach and what he plans to build with one of the nation's iconic programs.

Get hyped for Men's Volleyball! The season starts this week so we caught up with Alan Knipe for a major preview and talked a little Omicron, which has never been more timely!

It's a double-dose of Andy as we have lots to talk about! Mike and Andy go deep into the hiring of Tyler Hildebrand and what it means for the Women's Volleyball program and the athletics department as a whole, then touch on the latest from basketball and the holidays before wishing Ashlie Kite the best on her retirement. Big episode to close out 2021! #GoBeach

We touch base quickly with Andy to talk through some recent awards, and then dive deep with the head coach of the 7-0 Women's Basketball team, Jeff Cammon to talk though his team's early success this season! #GoBeach

Coming off of a second GCC Tournament Championship in three years, we are obviously talking Men's Water Polo and then have a double guest with Head Coach Gavin Arroyo and Rafael Real Vergara! We also talk about the hot start for women's basketball, and Thanksgiving.

Andy and the guys talk about Men's Water Polo's run to the GCC title and welcoming back fans to the Walter Pyramid for basketball, then we bring on Lena Silano to talk about her breakout year and the Women's Soccer season.

Basketball Season is just around the corner, so we continue our previews by talking to two of the Women's Basketball standouts Justina King and Maddi Utti in advance of their season while checking in on the fall sports as well! #GoBeach

It's a special Men's Basketball featured episode of the LB Fee Show! No Andy this week so instead we dive straight into the season with Long Beach State's three captains: Jordan Roberts, Drew Cobb and Colin Slater. Fun conversation with a lot of great info on the season, which is just around the corner!

Andy and JJ catch up on the latest from the fall sports, and then take a quick look at the basketball programs, which start up sooner than you think! We then chat with LaTanya Sheffield, who talks about her Olympic experience and how it's relating to her work with the Indoor and Outdoor Track programs. Plus football talk!? Don't miss it!

This week @TheAndyFee and @562Sports have plenty to talk about! New work on four facilities including lights at softball, resurfacing at the Rhodes Tennis Center and Ken Lindgren Aquatics Center as well as continued improvements at Bohl Diamond at Blair Field are in the works! Fall sports are also in full swing, so we recap the start of the season and go in depth on Men's Water Polo's 8-1 start with LBSU and Olympic coach Gavin Arroyo! #GoBeach

After running through the latest with the fall sports including a hot start for No. 8 Water Polo, we sit down with one of the newest additions to the leadership team at the Beach, Senior Associate Athletics Director Sean Ferrera and talk through his background and his vision for the stewardship of external relations at LBSU! #GoBeach

Another Fall sport has returned as Long Beach State welcomes back Women's Volleyball! We take the opportunity to talk through the team's preseason exhibition split with No. 22 Pepperdine and the upcoming season with Andy and Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer!

Season 5 of the LB Fee Show is here! We celebrate a successful first day of competition from Women's Soccer by talking with head coach Mauricio Ingrassia and as always, Andy Fee the return of the only official LBSU podcast! Subscribe and get the news straight from the AD himself every two weeks!

Year in Review time! JJ, Mike and Andy run down every program that competed in 2020-21, talking through the challenges and success we had this season at the Beach. Also, some big breaking news regarding Dirtbags Baseball in our final episode of Season 4 of the LB Fee Show!

We're talking championships again! Both golf programs are in the postseason, track and field had plenty of great performances, and exciting weekends were not to be missed on the diamond for the Dirtbags and the softball team who brought home the Big West title! We caught up with Kellie White and Alyssa Gonzalez after their thrilling sweep of Cal State Fullerton last weekend!

It's championship season so we talk about wins for the golf programs, hosting duties and more before chatting with Crystal Washington and Jason Smith in advance of the Big West Track and Field Championships held over the next two weeks.

With families and a few fans back in the stands, we take a look at that process and then turn to a busy spring schedule that's seeing a ton of success for the Beach! We then welcome on Shana Welch for her first appearance as the Head Coach of the Women's Water Polo program to talk about the season and preview the upcoming Big West Tournament! #GoBeach

Andy and the guys talk through spring sports, a potential return to normalcy and fans, as well as business trips to Hawaii before welcoming on Alan Knipe for an update on Long Beach State Men's Volleyball.

It's a Dirtbags spectacular as Andy and JJ talk about Virtual Homecoming and bring on Long Beach State head coach Eric Valenzuela in advance of the baseball home opener this weekend. #GoBeach #SkoBags

Andy gives a Big West Tournament update from Las Vegas, as the basketball programs get set for March Madness, and then we check in with Kim Sowder and Long Beach State softball, who started their season last week. #GoBeach

Spring sports are officially here! Andy and JJ run down the latest action, and then we have a wide-ranging interview with LBSU Hall of Famer and former major leaguer Steve Trachsel, the primary benefactor for the latest upgrade for Bohl Diamond at Blair Field, the Steve Trachsel bullpen!

Really good guest this week as Mark Edrington shares his knowledge about his role in helping create a return to play for spring sports, as well as plenty of stories and info about the iconic Walter Pyramid! Plus, Andy and the guys talk about the red-hot women's basketball team and the other sports that are now underway!

We know there are lots of questions about spring sports, so we tried to give all of the answers we have! No guest this week as Andy and the guys spend extra time to work through all of the permutations of restarting baseball, softball, men's volleyball, and all of the other spring sports on the schedule! #GoBeach

Extra special guest this week as Cindy Masner joins the pod following her retirement at the end of 2020 to talk about her legacy, her next steps and opinions on softball seams while telling some great stories. The guys and Andy also get into the great start for the women's basketball team and updates for the men's team as Big West play continues.

We're back to close out 2020! Andy and the guys talk about women's basketball's big win over UCR as well as the upcoming move to Las Vegas for the Big West Tournament, and then Dan Monson joins the show as the men's program finishes their pause on Wednesday before their conference opener on Friday at home. #GoBeach

Breaking News as Andy and the guys discuss the men's basketball pause that will cease team activities for two weeks, including five games. The focus then turns to the women's basketball program for a wide-ranging conversation about the team, their first win, and being the only game in town, literally, for the next two weeks with head coach Jeff Cammon.

It's Giving Tuesday and so we take time to talk about what donations from LB Nation do and how they help the programs! We also catch up with community icon Dan Gooch after he and his wife increased their endowment in support of the women's golf programs. Plus a little ironic basketball talk thrown in there with some insights on how games do or do not get played.

No guest today as we dive straight into basketball talk! Breaking news as Andy and the guys discuss the schedule as well as the process over the last two weeks to start indoor practices, first in Seal Beach followed by a return to the Walter Pyramid.

Andy and JJ go into some of the details regarding the restart for the two basketball programs, and then we get some insight on how outdoor activities have been going for the players with our guest Naomi Hunt of Women's Basketball! #GoBeach

Talking about practice? Absolutely we're talking about practice! Basketball teams have been cleared for outdoor activities, the start of a return to competition that we've all been waiting on! Andy talks with the guys about how the return is going, and then we spoke to Laura Teel about how the implementation of outdoor practices is working, getting our student-athletes primed for top performance, and tips for home workouts if you get inspired!

A lot of news in the past week, so JJ and Andy jump straight in to answer what's happening with the campus pause, and other questions relating to COVID-19 and a return to competition.

Good news in 2020?! Yes, we have some! We go all in on hoops talk on the pod as Andy tells the guys how we plan on returning to basketball by the official NCAA start date, including news about an imminent return to outdoor activities, and then sophomore Romelle Mansel joins as our guest to talk about his experiences in the pandemic and readiness to return to the court!

The LB Fee Show is back for a fourth season! JJ, Mike and Andy talk through a ton of topics, including coming back to school, potential return to competition, the introduction of Elbee and thoughts on Lute Olson. Don't miss it!

Andy, JJ and Mike talk through the phases on how a return to campus and a return to athletics will look following the COVID-19 pandemic, and then LaTanya Sheffield joins the show for the first time to talk about how Track and Field is responding to the pandemic, the now 2021 Olympic games and her work in leading Long Beach State Diversity and Inclusion committee. #GoBeach

With the semester over under unique circumstances, we talk about Graduation and how the transition to remote learning went with Sandra Shirley and Tamika Spivey of the Bickerstaff Academic Center. Plenty of news and insight from Andy and the guys as well around plans to resume athletic competition.

Andy and the guys talk about the tremendous support from LB Nation as part of Giving Tuesday last week in uncertain times, and then JJ and Mike go into a deep dive with Dirtbags coach Eric Valenzuela, talking the MLB draft, recruiting virtually and keeping things going before sharing some stories about Tony Gwynn. Packed episode! #GoBeach

In this episode, Andy and the guys talk about #SaveOurSports, whether LBSU will be affected (Still 19 sports strong y'all) and how they're getting by in self-isolation. Our guest this week Men's Volleyball Head Coach Alan Knipe who talks about his advocacy for the #SaveOurSports movement, how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting his sport and what is coming next for Long Beach State Men's Volleyball.

Andy, JJ and Mike are joined at home by Long Beach State and USA Water Polo Coach to talk about his upcoming induction to the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame and how both the Long Beach State water polo program and the USA Men's National Team are adjusting to ongoing postponements to seasons and to the Olympics. The crew then finishes with some positive messages to close out an upbeat COVID-19 episode.

JJ, Mike and Andy talk about how yesterday's eligibility relief announcement will affect LBSU Athletics, and talk about a number of other related topics regarding the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. #GoBeach *There are audio issues in this episode, but the content is still vital.*

No guest today for an in-depth discussion of COVID-19 and Long Beach State's response to the public health crisis. Andy, Mike and JJ talk about the decision-making process over the last week, talk about where we stand right now (As of March 17) and about ways the NCAA might make good on its intent to allow eligibility relief for seniors (and others?) who lost a season in spring 2020. Great information and some fun throughout!

Andy and JJ start off by recapping a very busy stretch for the Dirtbags, basketball and all of Long Beach State's spring sports, and then we catch up with women's water polo coach Shana Welch on her role filling in this season and the first half of the season out at the pool! #GoBeach

JJ and Andy talk through a successful week for the Beach with big wins from Softball, Baseball, Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball and Tennis along with plenty of other action. Then we get new Dirtbags Head Coach Eric Valenzuela on the pod for the first time after his opening weekend series win over Cal! #GoBeach