2023 Top 10 Long Beach Sports Moments: No. 6 Legendary Lakewood Coach Retires

The Lakewood girls’ volleyball program has been consistently competing to be the best team in the Moore League for the last two decades under coach Mike Wadley, and now his watch has ended. Wadley retired after this his 19th season during which he won his 500th game as head coach of the Lancers. He is believed to be the first high school volleyball coach in Long Beach or the Moore League to cross 500 varsity wins–Cal-Hi sports only keeps official coaching records for football, basketball, and baseball/softball, so official records don’t exist statewide. In 2007, Wadley also led Lakewood to…