{"id":138952,"date":"2026-01-18T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138952\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:55:08","slug":"prep-talk-st-francis-standout-golfer-jaden-soong-meets-7-foot-4-classmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/138952\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: St. Francis standout golfer Jaden Soong meets 7-foot-4 classmate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

They say \u201ca picture is worth a thousand words,\u201d so the photo of St. Francis standout golfer Jaden Soong and 7-foot-4 classmate Cherif Millogo might one day be worth thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n

Soong, a sophomore, won the CIF state golf championship as a freshman. There\u2019s little doubt he\u2019s destined to be on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n

\"Jaden <\/p>\n

Jaden Soong celebrates after winning the Southern California Golf Assn. Amateur Championship at Saticoy Club in Somis in 2024.<\/p>\n

(SCGA)<\/p>\n

Millogo, a junior, is a rising basketball prospect. USC just offered him a scholarship.<\/p>\n

Millogo used to play soccer, so there\u2019s little doubt Soong could teach him to play golf \u2014 if he could find clubs long enough for him.<\/p>\n

Basketball coach Todd Wolfson, who\u2019s 6-8, might be able to loan him his. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne day I wish to be as tall as Cherif and as good in golf as Jaden is,\u201d Wolfson said.<\/p>\n

Soong is playing in junior tournaments right now and probably won\u2019t join his high school team until March. <\/p>\n

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":"They say \u201ca picture is worth a thousand words,\u201d so the photo of St. Francis standout golfer Jaden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[70389,70393,217,11198,32496,70390,15216,48,52,51,70391,47,50,49,63,69316,70394,6310,18974,3533,70392],"class_list":["post-138952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-7-foot-4-classmate","tag-basketball-prospect","tag-day","tag-dollar","tag-golf","tag-high-school-team","tag-junior","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-little-doubt","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-millogo","tag-pga-tour","tag-prep-talk","tag-scholarship","tag-usc","tag-worth-thousand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138952","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=138952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}