transitioned into its first-ever iteration focused on junior college basketball . Enter the East Los Angeles College Huskies led by Coach John Mosley and staff as well as Deshaun Highler, Huskies captain and shooting guard who spent one year at the University of Texas at El Paso as a walk-on and stood out right away as a fierce leader when he came to ELAC.
After their fight to win the state championship was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the men accepted other opportunities at the next level. Highler moved out of the Riverside home he had shared with his late mom, who died from cancer in 2018, to Sacramento, where he lives with his girlfriend,