"Before she came to USC, it had never occurred to Jazzy Davidson how charmed her basketball upbringing had been. Growing up outside of Portland, nearly all of her years playing the game were spent with the same tight-knit group of girls - girls who'd been best friends since before the fifth grade and who, after all that time, could anticipate her every move before she made it. "They're basically my sisters," Davidson says."
"They'd been that way pretty much as far back as she could remember. Allie, she met in kindergarten. She and Sara joined the same squad in second grade. By 10, Dylan, Reyce and Avery were on the club team, too. For the next eight years or so, up through March's Oregon girls 6A state championship, they were inseparable, the six of them spending almost every waking moment together."
"Now, early in her freshman season at USC, Davidson steps into circumstances that no one would have anticipated when she signed with the school. At the time, the expectation was that she could be brought along as a talented No. 2 while the Trojans' generational star JuJu Watkins commanded all the outside noise and nightly double teams. But then Watkins injured her knee in March, forcing her to sit out the 2025-26 season."
Jazzy Davidson grew up outside Portland playing with a tight-knit group of girls who anticipated her every move and became like sisters. She met Allie in kindergarten, joined teams with Sara in second grade, and added Dylan, Reyce and Avery by age 10. The six led Clackamas High through an unprecedented four-year run culminating in the Oregon girls 6A state championship and spent nearly every waking moment together. Davidson arrived at USC excited but separated from those teammates, and an early-season shift in expectations followed JuJu Watkins' March knee injury that will sideline Watkins for 2025-26.
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