Jazzy Davidson
Jasmine Davidson, recent USC commit, competes that the 2023 Elite Is Earned camp in Martinez, California. *Photo by Chris Hansen.
Jasmine Davidson, the No. 2 ranked player in the ProspectsNation.com ELITE 150 for the 2025 class, announced her verbal commitment to USC today. The 6-foot-2 perimeter player from Clackamas, Oregon, chose the Women of Troy and head coach Lindsay Gottlieb over a nationally elite group of suitors from Connecticut, LSU and South Carolina to every former Pac-12 school out west.
Davidson is arguably the best two-way player in the class as her elite size, footspeed and hands allow her to be an impact defender all over the court. Offensively all those tools and her ability to process the game quickly allows her to play fast and find easy scoring opportunities that aren’t even available to most.
“She flipped a switch a couple of years ago and started coming 3-5 days each week,” Ashley Corral, her trainer at Legends Gym in Vancouver, Washington, and the Elite Is Earned national camp tour’s lead instructor, said. “Nobody told her she needed to. That’s what she wanted. Her ability to never get bored with the basics and to stay consistent is what separates her.”
Having watched Davidson quietly go about becoming one of the nation’s top players, including stints with USA Basketball’s U18 national team and 3X3 while staying true to her process has been impressive given the number of distractions that exist for players of her caliber in the current game. Our first time on the floor with Davidson dates back to her seventh grade year with Elite Is Earned. Her focus and effort were evident then and she continued to run her own race to the top. It continued the past two summers competing with the Cal Stars on the EYBL circuit with ample marquee matchups to sharpen her game.
“Jazzy is not only a great basketball player, but she is a special person,” Corral, a former USC Trojan herself, said. “I have loved working with her and getting to know her family since she was in the fifth grade. I know this means a lot to them and there isn’t someone more deserving. She is the perfect example of what it means to Fight On.”
Davidson, USC’s first commitment in the 2025 class to date, comes on the heals of a loaded, six-player 2024 class and two seasons behind JuJu Watkins who seems poised to leave Los Angeles, her hometown, as a generational talent. The addition of Davidson sure makes life after JuJu much brighter. With current WNBA draft rules the combination of Watkins and Davidson would be possible for two seasons.
BY THE NUMBERS
The three highest ranked players in the 2025 have committed to schools in California: No. 2 Davidson (USC), No. 3 Sienna Betts (UCLA), No. 5 Hailee Swain (Stanford).
No. 1 overall Aaliyah Chavez of Lubbock, Texas remains uncommitted.
Davidson’s No. 2 ranking is the highest for a player from Oregon since Evina Westbrook of Salem, Oregon, in 2017. Cameron Brink of Beaverton, Oregon, came in third in 2020.
Chris Hansen is managing editor of ProspectsNation.com and serves on the McDonald’s All-American and Naismith Trophy selection committees. He was a co-founder of and the national director of scouting for ESPN HoopGurlz from 2005 until 2012 and is the director of the Check Me Out Showcase and ELITE is EARNED events. He can be reached at chris@chrishansenbasketball.com.
