The USC women’s basketball program has the stage set for some serious star power with the addition of the nation’s top high school player, guard JuJu Watkins, who signed a national letter of intent to join the Women of Troy in 2023, head coach Lindsay Gottlieb has announced.
Grad student middle blocker Kalyah Williams has made positive contributions to the USC women’s volleyball team. This is her first season with USC after spending her undergrad years competing for Washington State.
Since its inception in March 2020, Athletes Unlimited (AU) has provided female athletes the option to extend their pro careers in the United States through their innovative leagues. Former USC opposite Nikia Withers recently completed her first season with the AU Volleyball league.
Cynthia Cooper-Dyke is a WNBA legend who has left her mark on Los Angeles Basketball history as a player and as a coach. Although she was born in Chicago, Cooper-Dyke was raised in Watts and attended Locke High School.
The Women of Troy lost to the Oregon Ducks 72-48. USC did not have any answers for the surging Ducks, who sit 13-6 on the season. Oregon was looking to end their three-game losing streak.
The UCLA women’s basketball team battled USC with an accurate offense and tough defense to execute a 73-52 victory over the Women of Troy.
The Women of Troy started their season on a high note with an 85-55 win over the Loyola Marymount University (LMU) Lions. USC shot at 46.3 percent and capitalized off of 20 LMU turnovers.
The USC men’s and women’s basketball teams are excited to compete and are revving up for the tip-off of the 2020-21 season.
The UCLA Bruins started slowly against USC in a highly anticipated matchup. They defeated the Women of Troy 73-66 in a very emotional game.
On March 10, HBO will debut “Women of Troy,” a sports documentary on the 1983-84 USC women’s basketball team at 9:00 PST. The documentary gives an exclusive look at the team that won two consecutive NCAA championships with sports icon Cheryl Miller leading the way.
After a tenacious effort in the second half, the USC women’s basketball team lost to the Arizona State Sun Devils 63-54. The Women of Troy dissolved a 20-point deficit to a nine-point difference, keeping their competitive spirit high in the final minutes of the game.
USC Athletics honored one of their all-time top-performing women’s basketball players earlier this month when they retired the jersey of the WNBA and Olympic icon Tina Thompson.
The will of the Women of Troy was tested last weekend as NorCal schools visited. USC bested the California Golden Bears 86-76, but lost to the #7 Stanford Cardinal 69-67 in the final minutes of their game. Junior guard Minyon Moore led the Women of Troy with 18 points, 10 rebounds, eight assists and four steals. Junior guard Dijonai Carrington and senior forward Alanna Smith scored double-doubles for the Cardinal: Smith with 23 points and 12 rebounds and Carrington with 18 points and 12 rebounds. Against the Cardinal, USC struck with a defensive energy that held Stanford to 11 points.
USC’s junior point guard Courtney Jaco has been known for her three-point shot accuracy since her high school years.