{"id":126604,"date":"2026-01-09T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/126604\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:00:09","slug":"prep-talk-juju-watkins-returns-to-sierra-canyon-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/126604\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: JuJu Watkins returns to Sierra Canyon on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JuJu Watkins is returning to Sierra Canyon High on Friday, the place where she was a high school basketball All-American.<\/p>\n<p>The school will hold a ceremony retiring her jersey at halftime of the boys\u2019 basketball game between Sierra Canyon and Sherman Oaks Notre Dame.<\/p>\n<p>She will be presented with a framed jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Watkins is sitting out this season at USC while recovering from a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Canyon girls\u2019 basketball coach Alicia Komaki said, \u201cShe raised our standards, which was hard to do because we had won four state championships. She was an incredibly talented player.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watkins was also making a <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/usc\/story\/2025-03-24\/usc-womens-basketball-in-ncaa-tournament-second-round\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">huge impact in the college game until her injury last season during the NCAA playoffs.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JuJu Watkins is returning to Sierra Canyon High on Friday, the place where she was a high school&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[25808,8825,65629,34583,2424,46866,15217,65628,65627,65626,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,15214,6310,29947,3533],"class_list":["post-126604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-basketball-game","tag-boy","tag-college-game","tag-daily-look","tag-friday","tag-halftime","tag-high-school-sport","tag-injury-last-season","tag-jersey","tag-juju-watkins-return","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-positive-happening","tag-prep-talk","tag-sierra-canyon","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}