Sedona Prince
American basketball player (born 2000) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sedona Prince (born May 12, 2000) is an American basketball player who currently plays for the TCU Horned Frogs of the Big 12 Conference.[1] She[a] previously played for the Oregon Ducks of the Pac-12 Conference and the Texas Longhorns of the Big 12 Conference. At 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), she was one of the tallest players to ever play for Oregon.[2] Prince generated national attention in 2021 after highlighting the disparity in facilities between the men's and women's NCAA tournaments. She was not allowed to compete during the 2019–2020 NCAA season due to NCAA transfer rules requiring her to sit out a season.[3]
| No. 24 – TCU Horned Frogs | |
|---|---|
| Position | Power forward / center |
| League | Big 12 Conference |
| Personal information | |
| Born | May 12, 2000 Hemet, California, US |
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
| Listed weight | 195 lb (88 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Liberty Hill (Liberty Hill, Texas) |
| College | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Early life and high school
Born in Hemet, California and raised in Liberty Hill, Texas, Prince began playing basketball in the fourth grade. Prince stated that she was bullied for her height and transferred to Faith Academy of Marble Falls because of the bullying, but she transferred back to Liberty Hill High School, where she was a three-year varsity player.[4] She committed to playing college basketball at Texas, who first extended an offer to Prince when she was in the eighth grade. [5][6]
College career
Texas
Prince redshirted her true freshman season while recovering from a broken right leg suffered at the FIBA Americas U18 Championships. According to her mother Tambra, the athletic trainers at Texas urged her to prepare for the upcoming season, having her do exercises a month after her surgery, leading to her suffering a setback and nearly dying from an infection and the antibiotics she was taking to combat it.[3][7] Prince announced she would transfer to Oregon to continue her collegiate career, with reports stating that disagreements with the Texas medical staff were the main reason for the transfer.[8][9][10]
Oregon
Prince applied for a hardship waiver to grant her immediate eligibility for the 2019–20 season, but her waiver and appeal were denied, leading to her sitting out the season instead.[7][9][11]
National team career
Prince has represented the United States, starting at the 2015 FIBA Americas U16 Championship where she was a part of the team that won bronze. She also won bronze representing the U17 national team at the 2016 FIBA U17 World Cup.
Prince was a part of the United States women's national under-19 basketball team at the 2018 FIBA Under-18 Women's Americas Championship, where she broke her leg during a game in the preliminary round, causing her to miss her true freshman season.[12] Despite the injury, she still earned a gold medal as the United States won the FIBA Americas championship over Canada.
Prince was named a finalist for the 2021 FIBA Women's AmeriCup roster in April, and she was officially named to the roster in June.[13][14]
Career statistics
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
| APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
| TO | Turnovers per game | FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
| Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
College
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018–19 | Texas |  Redshirted | |||||||||||
| 2019–20 | Oregon | 1 | 0 | .0 | – | – | – | .0 | .0 | .0 | .0 | .0 | .0 |
| 2020–21 | Oregon | 19 | 10 | 19.8 | .545 | .286 | .800 | 3.9 | 1.3 | .6 | 1.5 | .8 | 10.4 |
| 2021–22 | Oregon | 30 | 18 | 22.1 | .542 | .000 | .746 | 4.9 | 1.4 | .5 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 9.3 |
| 2023–24 | TCU | 21 | 21 | 33.2 | .552 | .357 | .719 | 9.7 | 1.9 | .8 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 19.7 |
| Career | 4 years, 2 teams | 71 | 49 | 24.4 | .547 | .304 | .739 | 6.0 | 1.5 | .6 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 12.5 |
| Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[15] | |||||||||||||
Personal life
Prince is the daughter of James and Tambra Prince. James is a retired Marine, while Tambra played basketball and volleyball at St. John's College in Kansas. She also has an older brother, Diego. [16]
One of Prince's former girlfriends, Olivia Stabile, posted a series of TikTok videos accusing Prince of physical and verbal abuse. Included in the posts were accusations of Prince shoving her to the ground and threatening to sue Stabile if she were to go public about the incident. Prince stated that the allegations are "false, defamatory and misleading".[17][18] No charges have been filed.[19]
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