USC Women's Basketball: Top Freshman Lands Awesome New Ride Via NIL Deal

She'll be arriving to campus in style!

Incoming USC Trojans women's basketball freshman Juju Watkins, an alum of Sierra Canyon School in Chatsworth (and thus a classmate of newly minted USC Trojans men's hooper Bronny James), will be showing up to the Galen Center with a pretty fresh ride.

Via a relationship between Fletcher Jones Motorcars and the NIL collective House of Victory (a USC sponsor), Andy Murray of On3 reports that the six-foot combo guard will be driving a 2023 Mercedes EQS during her freshman season.

In a promotional House of Victory video commemorating the moment, the five-star 18-year-old recruit spoke about her new wheels.

Thank you to our amazing partners at Fletcher Jones Motorcars for supporting House of Victory athletes.

We are proud to have Juju Watkins as our first athlete to benefit from this partnership. More coming soon! ✌️ pic.twitter.com/fQWYumC0OV

— House of Victory (@houseof_victory) August 2, 2023

“To be the first athlete to get a car with House of Victory is amazing,” Watkins reflected. “I’m super honored to have this blessing and I definitely hope more women get this, too, in the future.”

Watkins arrives on campus as the top-ranked freshman among her class, and will look to help elevate Lindsay Gottlieb's revamped Women of Troy from their first round March Madness exit last spring.

“Galen Center is going to be super lit this year,” Watkins added. “We’ve got a lot going on and I’m super excited to feel the atmosphere. And everybody should just come to just see what we can do.”