Oct 27, 2026 9:21 AM
Jazzy Davidson joins the Nancy Lieberman Award watchlist following a historic freshman season, while Kylie Chong earns top honors for community service as soccer and volleyball face tough losses.
The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced on Monday that USC Trojans star sophomore guard Jazzy Davidson has been named to the 2027 Nancy Lieberman Point Guard of the Year Award watchlist.
The Nancy Lieberman Award recognizes the top point guard in NCAA Division I women's college basketball. Davidson was named the USBWA Tamika Catchings National Freshman of the Year, WBCA NCAA Division I Freshman of the Year, The Athletic National Freshman of the Year and Big Ten Freshman of the Year after a stellar freshman campaign last season. You name an award, she earned it.
Davidson started all 32 games for the Women of Troy and was the only Division I player to lead her team in all five major statistical categories. She scored 17.9 points per game while also averaging 5.9 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 2.0 steals and 2.0 blocks per game. She was also the only Division I player, regardless of men or women, to average at least 2.0 steals and 2.0 blocks per game.
Golf
Kylie Chong was named a recipient of the 2026 Tom Cousins Award, as announced by the East Lake Foundation committee at the annual East Lake Cup Welcome Celebration on Monday.
The award committee selects one male and one female recipient from participating teams in the East Lake Cup. The award is given to a student-athlete The award is given to the student-athletes who best exemplify community and philanthropic service.
Chong gave back to her community through a local service project at the Dream Center to make and serve food for the unhoused. She also spent time with disabled golfers at Angel City Adaptive Sports Clinic.
The No. 2 USC women's golf team earned the top seed for the East Lake Cup match play on Monday. The match play portion begins Tuesday morning at 7:40 a.m., which will be televised on the Golf Channel.
Soccer
The USC women's soccer team fell to Iowa 3-1 on the road Sunday. The loss dropped the Women of Troy to 2-9-6 on the season, including 1-6-4 against Big Ten competition.
The Trojans fell to the Hawkeyes despite outshooting them 15-13. Their only goal came from Peyton Nakagawara in the 71st minute.
Reilly Heman scored in the ninth minute to put Iowa ahead 1-0. She then assited in a goal from Sophia Bush in the 51st minute to extend the Hawkeyes’ lead to 2-0.
The Hawkeyes answered USC’s goal with a shot to the net by Elle Wildman, assisted by Herman to round out the scoring in the 81st minute.
The Trojans host UCLA for their final regular season home match on Friday.
Volleyball
The Trojans travelled to Nebraska to take on the No. 1 team in the nation over the past weekend and it wasn’t close.
USC (9-11, 3-7 Big Ten) fell to Nebraska (21-0, 10-0) in straight sets (25-12, 25-16, 25-13) on Saturday.
Leah Ford led the Trojans with seven kills while London Wijay had six kills and seven digs. Milly McGee led the Trojans with 20 assists.
Harper Murray led the Cornhuskers with 14 kills while Virginia Adriano had 13 kills. Olivia Mauch had a match-high 10 digs and Bergen Reilly led the Trojans with 34 assists to go with eight digs.
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