USC basketball star JuJu Watkins is preparing for her second March Insanity event.
And final week, because the 19-year-old sophomore ready alongside together with her staff for the massive dance, Watkins’ coach Lindsay Gottlieb revealed that WNBA star Caitlin Clark provided to “assist her navigate” school basketball stardom.
Watkins — who already surpassed Clark in level totals by means of their sophomore seasons — tells PEOPLE it “means so much” to have Clark’s assist.
“I have not but reached out,” says Watkins, whereas talking about her new partnership with Degree. “Perhaps. I imply, simply to know that I’ve that assist, it means so much.”
The USC basketball star provides that she’s a “huge fan of” Clark’s and he or she’s loved seeing the Indiana Fever guard “killing it” in her first WNBA season. “I am all the time proud and cheering her on,” says Watkins.
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“She’s only a tremendous dope individual and for her to try this, meaning so much,” she says of Clark’s provide. “However I have not reached out but.”
Watkins notes that coach Gottlieb is “one of many principal causes” she performs for USC. “Simply because she’s so sincere and he or she does not sugarcoat issues with me,” she says. “We’re tremendous tight.”
And though Watkins is near breaking extra NCAA information, she says the staff “undoubtedly comes first and all the pieces else after.”
Watkins has little time between basketball, faculty and enterprise lately. However it’s not all work — the school athlete says she not too long ago discovered time to attend a Tyler, the Creator live performance. “I have been a very long time fan,” she says of the rapper.
Along with partnerships with Nike and Nyx, she’s now the face of Diploma deodorant, a model she says is “a part of my on a regular basis routine” and one which aligns together with her values. “It was an genuine determination course of…I used to be wanting to do it, particularly realizing their funding in girls’s sports activities,” says Watkins.
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Needing deodorant? Relatable. Breaking NCAA basketball information? Not a lot. Nonetheless, Watkins says she’s a reasonably regular school child on the finish of the day. “I wish to be residence so much…I like to simply chill on the sofa,” says Watkins, a new dog mom to a Frenchie.
“I am an enormous present individual,” says Watkins. Today, she’s having fun with Severance on Apple+ and although she’s “not the most important fan” of the third season of HBO’s The White Lotus, she’s nonetheless tuning in.
