{"id":415463,"date":"2026-01-18T19:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415463\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T19:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:37:17","slug":"prep-talk-st-francis-standout-golfer-jaden-soong-meets-7-foot-4-classmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/415463\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: St. Francis standout golfer Jaden Soong meets 7-foot-4 classmate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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<p>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<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Jaden Soong poses for a photo with the Southern California Golf Assn. Amateur Championship winner's plaque.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1768765037_755_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>Jaden Soong celebrates after winning the Southern California Golf Assn. Amateur Championship at Saticoy Club in Somis in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>(SCGA)<\/p>\n<p>Millogo, a junior, is a rising basketball prospect. USC just offered him a scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>Basketball coach Todd Wolfson, who\u2019s 6-8, might be able to loan him his. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day I wish to be as tall as Cherif and as good in golf as Jaden is,\u201d Wolfson said.<\/p>\n<p>Soong is playing in junior tournaments right now and probably won\u2019t join his high school team until March. <\/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":"They say \u201ca picture is worth a thousand words,\u201d so the photo of St. Francis standout golfer Jaden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[198970,198976,275,926,427,198972,999,198973,4281,198971,3332,198974,198977,99,7813,198975],"class_list":["post-415463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-7-foot-4-classmate","tag-basketball-prospect","tag-day","tag-dollar","tag-golf","tag-high-school-team","tag-junior","tag-little-doubt","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-millogo","tag-pga-tour","tag-prep-talk","tag-scholarship","tag-sports","tag-usc","tag-worth-thousand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}