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Transfers make the top teams in girls' basketball even stronger
Los Angeles Times
|November 18, 2025
Etiwanda, Ontario Christian and Sierra Canyon are schools to beat this season.
If you think college sports has been changed by the transfer portal, prepare for what's happening in girls' high school basketball.
They say what happens in college trickles down to high schools, and that's the case this season.
There are so many high-level transfers that it's almost looking like boys' basketball. And it comes at a time of enhanced enforcement of transfer rules by the Southern Section, so who's available and who's not remains to be seen.
The top schools — Etiwanda, Ontario Christian and Sierra Canyon — have added key players to their squads. Mater Dei and Fairmont Prep are next in line. And there's a new team in the mix, Oak Park, which lost its point guard but gained more than enough from the transfer portal after the hiring of former WNBA player April Schilling, who's the wife of Pepperdine men's coach Ed Schilling. Corona Centennial might have more transfers than any team, including 6-foot-6 sophomore Sydney Douglas from Ontario Christian.
This story is from the November 18, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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