Long Beach Bombers

Long Beach Bombers
City	Lakewood, California
League	WSHL
Division	Western
Founded	1993
Home arena	The Rinks - Lakewood Ice
Colors	Black, White, Gray, & Blue
Owner(s)	Bombers Hockey Group, Inc.
General manager	Chris White
Head coach	Chris White
Franchise history
1993–1996	Anaheim Jr. Ducks
1996–2006	Southern California Jr. Bombers
2006–2010	Bay City Bombers
2010–present	Long Beach Bombers

The Long Beach Bombers are an Amateur Athletic Union-sanctioned Tier II junior ice hockey team in Western Division of the Western States Hockey League (WSHL). The team plays their home games at the The Rinks - Lakewood Ice in Lakewood, California.

Before moving to Tier III Junior A hockey, the Bombers competed in Junior B hockey from 1994 until 2007 when the team and WSHL were upgraded to Tier III Jr. A status. In 2011, the league left USA Hockey sanctioning and joined the Amateur Athletic Union and in 2012, the AAU-sanctioned United Hockey Union. In 2015, the Bombers and the WSHL were promoted to Tier II under the AAU sanctioning.

The team was a founding member of the WSHL in 1993 as the Anaheim Jr. Ducks and won the first two Thorne Cup Championships of the league's existence. The franchise then changed their name to the Southern California Jr. Bombers in the 1996 offseason, became the Bay City Bombers in 2006, and then revised their name once more becoming the Long Beach Bombers in 2010. The Bombers are currently the only founding franchise of the WSHL still playing in the league.

The Bombers have had a number of alumni move on to higher levels of junior, college, and professional ice hockey.

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