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🏊 Championship stats
🎾 Weekly honor
⚔️ And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Champ Stats. The swim & dive team competed for another day at the Big Ten Championships. Claire Tuggle finished second in the 500 yard freestyle. The Trojans sit in fifth place with 292 points.

🏊 See how each swimmer did.

🔼 First Honor. The Big Ten named Nathan Trouve the Men’s Tennis Freshman of the Week. This is his first conference honor. Trouve earned his first-ever ranked victory as he took down No. 32 Maxi Homberg when USC beat No. 25 Pepperdine.

🔼 Season Start. The No. 1 women’s beach volleyball team won its first game of the season against #12 Hawai’i 3-2. Zoey Henson and Maya Gessner had a huge first-set win of 21-8. The Trojans then fell to No. 7 LMU 4-1. Madison Goellner and Ella Larkin won the only match of the day.

🔼 Place to Be. USC is the Place to Be. Now It’s Time to Win. Celebrate Trojan victories and help fundraise for the teams through House of Victory!

Today’s Top Tier Performance presented by ARCO is Johnny Brackins Jr. The senior broke his own USC 60m hurdles record with a time of 7.48. He was named Big Ten Men’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Week for the second time.

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Plus 2. Women’s basketball player JuJu Watkins landed two more national award nods this week.

Watkins was selected to the Dawn Stanley Award Later Season Watch List and the USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale National ____ of the Week.

Think you got it? Scroll on down to the bottom for the answer!

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📅 THE DAYS AHEAD

Friday, February 21

🏊 Swim & Dive Big Ten Conference Championships
🤽‍♂️ Water Polo vs. Biola @ 10am | Live Stats
🏐 Women’s Beach Volleyball vs. #5 Stanford/#11 Arizona State @ 11:45am/3:30pm PT
🥍 Women’s Lacrosse vs. UC Davis @ 1pm PT | Live Stats | Watch
🎾 Women’s Tennis vs. Cal @ 1:30pm PT
⚾️ Baseball at Rice @ 4:30pm PT | Live Stats

Saturday, February 22

🏊 Swim & Dive Big Ten Conference Championships
🤽‍♂️ Water Polo vs TBD/TBD @ TBD/TBD
⚾️ Baseball at Rice @ 12pm PT | Live Stats
🎾 Men’s Tennis at UCLA @ 1pm PT
🏐 Women’s Beach Volleyball vs. #3 UCLA/#2 TCU @ 3:30/6pm

Sunday, February 23

🏀 Women’s Basketball vs. Illinois @ 1pm PT | Live Stats | Watch | Tickets
🤽‍♂️ Water Polo vs TBD @ TBD
⚾️ Baseball at Rice @ 11am PT | Live Stats
🏀 Men’s Basketball at Rutgers @ 3pm PT | Live Stats | Watch

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: National Player of the Week!

⚔️ Have a great Friday, everyone!