{"id":525693,"date":"2026-01-18T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/525693\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:21:11","slug":"prep-talk-st-francis-standout-golfer-jaden-soong-meets-7-foot-4-classmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/525693\/","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":3,"featured_media":525694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[233512,233517,2385,12847,1430,233514,41822,233515,2444,233513,1456,111832,66901,62,67,132,68,11016,233516],"class_list":{"0":"post-525693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-7-foot-4-classmate","9":"tag-basketball-prospect","10":"tag-day","11":"tag-dollar","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-high-school-team","14":"tag-junior","15":"tag-little-doubt","16":"tag-los-angeles-times","17":"tag-millogo","18":"tag-pga-tour","19":"tag-prep-talk","20":"tag-scholarship","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usc","26":"tag-worth-thousand"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115917493593241210","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}