Good morning! Ok, yes, we did indeed miss World Emoji Day from earlier this week, but who’s to say that we can show off the world’s best emoji everyday? With that said, let’s start off the morning with a #FightOn and of course, ✌️.

What all can you find in today's Brew?

🏈 First Team Phenoms
🏆 MVP! MVP!
⚔️ And much, much more!

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🔼 First Team Phenoms. Trojan football is fast approaching, and it’s growing closer now with the release of the 2023 Preseason All-Pac-12 teams. Five members of the 2023-24 USC squad made the preseason All-Pac-12 First Team including the reigning Heisman winner Caleb Williams. Joining him are guys that you might recognize:

🏈 DB Caleb Bullock
🏈 P Eddie Czaplicki
🏈 ATH Raleek Brown
🏈 WR Dorian Singer

These five have high hopes for this upcoming season, and with these headliners playing at their best, USC has a great shot at winning lots of football games.

🔼 More Medals. Add another silver medalist to the list of accolades this Trojan basketball squad will be coming in with this upcoming season. Roxane Makolo, USC women’s basketball’s newest member, helped earned her fellow Canadians to a silver medal in the 2023 GLOBL Jam earlier this week.

After the conclusion of this tournament, Makolo has made a total of 31 international appearances for Canada. Way to represent both country and college, Roxane!

🔼 Back Home. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but this one gives you all the highlights from the Trojans newest goalkeeper, Bella Grust. The transfer from Colorado will fill in nicely with the team as the 10th incoming player joining the program for the upcoming season.

Want to see Grust and the rest of the Trojan soccer live in-game? Tickets are on sale now for their opening game matchup on August 17th against Michigan. Get them while they’re hot!

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Preseason Accolades. We mentioned that the Trojans placed five of their guys on the 2023 Preseason All-Pac-12 First Team, but do you know how many players in total earned preseason accolades?

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

⚔️ ONE BIG THING

Your NBA2K Summer League Championship MVP is none other than USC’s own Isaiah Mobley.

Mobley helped close out the championship game with the Cleveland Cavaliers, and helped them to a perfect 6-0 record in Las Vegas. Here are just a few reasons why the Summer League MVP got what he deserved.

📸 A poster dunk that we won’t soon forget.

🚨 The game-winning shot to send the Cavs to the Finals.

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🎉 TRIVIA ANSWER

Answer: 16!

Five more Trojans were placed onto the All-Pac-12 Second Team and anther six were given Honorable Mentions. The 2023 football season can’t come soon enough.

Have a great Wednesday, everyone!