Good morning! Welcome to draft week everyone! The MLB Draft began last night, and by the end of the day Tuesday, might include a name or two that we recognize from this past season.

What all can you find in today's Brew?

⬆️ Moving On Up
👟 One Big Thing
⚔️ And much, much more!

📈 STOCK UP

🔼 Another One. Head coach Lindsay Gottlieb just keeps on adding to the Trojan Family. The most recent addition: graduate transfer Roxane Makolo out of TCU.

The Canadian guard joins the team after her comeback season in Fort Worth, Texas with the Horned Frogs. Shea averaged nearly six points and four rebounds per game after taking a couple of seasons to rehab an injury sustained during her freshman campaign.

🗣️ “Roxane is a tremendous competitor and athlete that will contribute in key ways to what we are building at SC.” - Coach Gottlieb

The former gold medal champion at the FIBA U16 Americas is bringing her grit and grind mentality to add more depth and more fire power to an already loaded incoming squad.

🔼 Moving On Up. A pair of Trojan staff members were given the nod and were promoted within each of their fields this past weekend. Let’s dive into who we will be seeing more of for both volleyball and rowing programs.

🏐 Megan Moenoa will join the Trojans women’s volleyball staff as its third full-time assistant coach for this upcoming season. After accompanying the team in Brazil, Coach Moenoa is well versed on the team and what to come for the upcoming 2023 season.

🚣‍♀️ Martina Vlatkovic was elevated to become the associate head coach of the women’s rowing team. After being a part of the program since 2018 and guiding the Trojans to back-to-back NCAA berths, the promotion was well earned.

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The Most. USC baseball has a rich history of players drafted into the MLB, but do you know which year the most players were drafted from USC?

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

⚔️ ONE BIG THING

What. A. Weekend.

Trojan track and field went out and dominated the USATF Championships and British Athletics in all sorts of events. Here are some of the highlights from the weekend.

🆙 Nia Ali, aka the ‘Mom On A Mission’ claimed the first title of her career. She completed the 100-meter hurdles in a time of 12.37 seconds and got to celebrate her win with her kids by her side. Oh, and she punched her ticket to the World Championships.

💨 Tade Ojora is getting used to this winning thing. He won his third straight 110-meter hurdles event with a time of 13.16, just .03 seconds away from the record.

🏃‍♀️ Christine Mallard took the 400-meter title after setting a personal-best time at 50.74 to win the event at the USATF U20.

🐸 Rai Benjamin strolled to his fourth straight USATF 400-meter victory after setting a meet record with a time of 46.62.

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 1978!

Following the 1978 season, 13 players from the Trojan baseball program were selected in the MLB Draft. Among the names are first round selection Rod Boxberger and the three Dave’s (Van Gorder, Engle, and Hostetler).

If you guessed 2016, you were close as 12 players were drafted to the MLB from that team.

Have a great Monday, everyone!