From a story on axios.com by Jeff Tracy headlined “High school athletes cash in big off NIL deals”:
The adoption of NIL upended the college sports landscape, but it also quietly opened the door for high school athletes to begin cashing in.
Driving the news: Nike recently signed its first high school NIL deal, inking Harvard-Westlake (Los Angeles) soccer players and sisters, Alyssa and Gisele Thompson, to a multiyear agreement.
- Mikey Williams, a five-star basketball prospect, was among the first to strike last fall when he signed with Puma.
- Others include NYC basketball players Johnuel Fland and Ian Jackson and Louisiana wrestler Richie Clementi.