Column: Peering into the crystal ball for 2025 | College News

It’s time to look into my crystal ball to see what 2025 has in store for the Southland’s high college athletes (and a few former ones), coaches and followers.

Dominic Cadiz of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame will hit so many home runs that he’ll get a identify, image and likeness deal with Wheaties.

Sophomore Julius Truitt of Birmingham will turn out to be the second-most well-known particular person named JuJu in Los Angeles when he hits above .400, steals double-digit bases and breaks a college file for triples in his first season as a varsity starter.

Corona will win the Southern Section Division 1 baseball championship, with Seth Hernandez incomes reward as the Shohei Ohtani of high college baseball.

Win Gurney of Mira Costa, an Oregon State commit, will hit a home run to date that the ball will go lacking till a Golden Retriever is introduced in to search out it.

Quarterback Brady Smigiel of Newbury Park will promise his dad all A’s on his report card and to by no means dump Gatorade on him when it’s cold if he will get a new truck.

A bunch of El Segundo Little Leaguers from the championship group of 2023 will enroll at Loyola, and white smoke might be seen rising from historic Ruppert Hall.

Kaleena Smith of Ontario Christian will rating 50 factors in a ladies’ basketball sport, then get a shoe by Adidas in her honor.

The NFL draft on April 24 will characteristic two former Servite gamers, Mason Graham and Tetairoa McMillan, chosen in the first spherical, inflicting their former coach, Troy Thomas, to sing the college battle tune.

Quarterback Koa Malau’ulu of St. John Bosco will deal with his group of gifted receivers with a lot love that he’ll buy them no matter they need from In-N-Out as long as the invoice doesn’t exceed $150.

The Grindlinger brothers, Trent and Jared, will hit back-to-back home runs for Huntington Beach, inflicting mother and pop to scream so loudly that the umpire will stop the sport for a second of calm.

Gary Morse, a 6-foot-8 junior pitcher for Orange Lutheran, might be in comparison with Tyler Glasnow.

Pitcher Addison Moorman of Granada Hills.

(Craig Weston)

Addison Moorman of Granada Hills will strike out 18 in a softball sport.

Eighth-grader Ezrah Brown, the brother of Stanford quarterback Elijah Brown, and seventh-grader Ryu Sanchez, the brother of Columbia quarterback Caleb Sanchez, will proceed their rise as youth quarterbacks as they transfer nearer to the day of taking up the offenses at Mater Dei and St. John Bosco, respectively.

Former Sierra Canyon defensive back Kamari Ramsey might be an All-American for USC, then turn out to be a first-round draft decide in 2026.

Bell celebrates after defeating Birmingham in the City Section Open Division championship at Dodger Stadium.

(Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

Bell will turn out to be the first college exterior the San Fernando Valley since Fremont in 1947 to win consecutive City Section higher division baseball championships.

Defensive lineman Khary Wilder of Gardena Serra might be so profitable sacking quarterbacks that he’ll change his uniform quantity to 99.

Teagan O’Dell of Santa Margarita will finish up with so many swimming medals round her neck that there might be a contest to guess how many.

Bishop Alemany freshman Demare Dezeurn shows his medal after successful the boys’ 100 meters in 10.47 seconds at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 20, 2024.

(Steve Galluzzo / For The Times)

Demare Dezeurn of Bishop Alemany might be the quickest 100-meter runner in the Southern Section at age 16 as he blossoms beneath coach Terrell Stanley.

Nikolas Khamenia of Harvard-Westlake will set a file for triple-doubles in a season.

Lino Mark of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame.

(Nick Koza)

Lino Mark of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame will obtain an NIL deal for his hair.

Dylan Moreno of San Pedro will kick so many area objectives that coach Corey Walsh will offer to function his holder at observe.

Birmingham and El Camino Real will meet again to find out the City Section boys’ soccer title and as an alternative of the match ending in a battle, gamers will comply with shake arms as long as they get invited to the subsequent World Cup.

Jaden Soong competes during the U.S. Open qualifier at Hillcrest Country Club in Los Angeles on June 5, 2023.

(Brody Hannon)

Freshman golf phenom Jaden Soong of St. Francis will comply with a skins sport in opposition to Charlie Woods sponsored by the SGA.

Cathedral sophomore quarterback Jaden Jefferson.

(Michael Blackshire/Los Angeles Times)

Quarterback Jaden Jefferson of Cathedral will throw for six touchdowns in a sport, then do the Heisman pose.

Huntington Beach baseball coach Benji Medure will promise to strive browsing if his group beats Corona.

Mater Dei left-hander Jackson Campbell might be a shock pitching star as a result of of his skill to throw strikes.

Softball standout Taelyn Holley of Murrieta Mesa, a Tennessee commit, will hit so many home runs that Erewhon will identify a smoothie after her.

USC’s shock freshman standout in baseball might be Augie Lopez from Loyola High.

Receiver might be the strongest place in Southern California soccer, led by the St. John Bosco group of Madden Williams, Carson Clark, Daniel Odom, Christian Davis and Darren Tubbs.

Corona Centennial soccer coach Matt Logan.

(Jeremiah Soifer )

Matt Logan of Corona Centennial will win his three hundredth profession soccer sport, then be offered with a new jersey, No. 300.