The top-ranked women’s basketball recruit in the 2023 class signed her letter of intent with USC on Tuesday.

Juju Watkins has announced her commitment to the Trojans, picking USC from a group of finalists that also included two of the very top programs in women’s college basketball right now — South Carolina and Stanford. Watkins is believed to be a generational kind of basketball talent. She’s already a two-time gold medalist with USA Basketball, a defending California state champion at Sierra Canyon High School, and the state’s reigning Gatorade Girls Basketball Player of the Year.

A 6-foot-1 guard, Watkins averaged 24.5 points, 10.3 rebounds, 3.2 assists, 2.8 steals, and 2.0 blocks last season for Sierra Canyon en route to a state title. Last summer, she started all seven games as a member of the USA Basketball Women’s U17 National Team and averaged a team-high 13.1 points, 6.4 rebounds, 2.4 assists, and 2.3 steals.

Watkins becomes the third top-10 recruit to sign with USC since espnW started its national rankings in 2007, joining No. 7 Jordan Adams in 2012 and No. 8 Aaliyah Gayles in 2022.

According to ESPN, Watkins became the first high school athlete to sign with Klutch Sports Group for NIL representation when she joined the roster this past February. This October, Watkins finalized an NIL endorsement deal with Nike, alongside Sierra Canyon classmate Bronny James, Iowa point guard Caitlin Clark, Stanford guard Haley Jones, and top 2023 guard D.J. Wagner.

“JuJu is the best and most decorated player of her class both in the country and internationally. I could talk for days about her skill set: her shot-making ability, creativity to the rim, dominance on the boards, defensive tenacity and her elite court vision,” coach Lindsay Gottlieb said in a release. “But what I am most excited about is that JuJu the human being is joining the USC family. This is a young woman with transcendent talent, but she is also uniquely motivated. She is about things bigger than herself: her family, her team, her community, her city. JuJu had the courage to stay home and is driven to bring USC women’s basketball back to prominence. What a monumental day for all of us in the Trojan Family.”

A native of Watts, California, Watkins was named the MVP of the 2022 FIBA U17 World Cup, helping Team USA to a gold medal at that event. In 2021, she was the MVP of the FIBA Americas U16 Championship, where the U.S. squad also won gold.

Watkins is joined by 5-foot-6 Seattle guard Malia Samuels in the 2023 class.