SEDONA PRINCE LEANS down and unwinds the tape around her right ankle after her final game as an NCAA basketball player. TCU has just lost in the Elite Eight to Texas, and the seventh-year senior sits in a chair and reflects on the challenges she’s overcome.
Broken leg. Broken finger. Torn elbow ligament. Botched medical care. Three different schools. She applauds her own perseverance.
“Knockdown, knockdown, knockdown,” she says. “And I just kept fighting. It’s unreal how much strength God has given me and what I’ve been able to overcome.”
She doesn’t mention the most immediate threat to her basketball career: At least four women have publicly accused Prince of sexual assault or intimate partner violence over the past several months. Prince unequivocally denied all the allegations in a social-media post in August. Her attorney, A. Boone Almanza, reiterated those denials this week.
“Sedona has not been charged with a crime or found guilty of any wrongdoing,” he wrote in a statement to ESPN. “Rather she has been convicted on social media by people who have attempted to use their relationship with Sedona to attract followers and to build their influencer careers and settle grudges. To the extent she has made any mistakes different from other young people in their early dating life it…
