Sedona Prince, the 6-foot-7-inch center, announced last week on Instagram “I’m coming home,” in reference to joining the TCU women’s basketball team. This means, Prince will not enter the draft but instead enter the transfer portal for the upcoming season. Prince, who attended Liberty Hill High School, was a top-10 recruit who committed to the University of Texas, where she missed a year due to a broken leg.
But after transferring to Oregon, in 2020, Prince became a centerpiece for the University of Oregon women’s basketball program with her towering ability to find the open shot alongside Sabrina Ionescu, Ruthy Hebard, and Satou Sabally. But in the course of defining herself on the court, she also found a way to redefine her role as a college athlete. This notion was made prevalent when she burst onto the national scene after pointing out disparities between the men's and women's NCAA tournaments in a viral social media post. Prince, along with other LGTBQ activists, were reported to have expressed concern for the NCAA holding its Women's Final Four in Dallas and Men's Final Four in Houston given that Texas’ bans on abortion in most cases and on K-12 transgender athletes competing on teams that align with their gender identity.
Prince called on other athletes to continue to fight for initiatives they believe in.
“It’s not just sports. It’s so much more,” she says on social media. “We can fight for things that we believe in. We can fight for things surrounding our sport.”
Prince joins a TCU team led by coach Mark Campbell, who also spent s few seasons on Oregon’s women’s basketball staff as an assistant and associate head coach. Campbell was hired by TCU in March to take on the head coach duties of the TCU women’s basketball team next season.
Campbell replaced Raegan Pebley, who stepped down after nine seasons as TCU's coach with a 141-138 record. The Horned Frogs were 8-23 last season, including 1-17 in Big 12 play during the regular season.
