The Influence of Sedona Prince

At twenty-four years old, Sedona Prince is starting her seventh year of college basketball, but she has only played in seventy games. Last year, her first at Texas Christian University, she averaged roughly twenty points, ten rebounds, and three blocks, but she missed a long portion of the season with a broken finger that required surgery. Before that, a torn ligament in her elbow ended her time at the University of Oregon. And, prior to that, she was forced to sit out her first season at Oregon after transferring from the University of Texas following a horrific leg injury. That broken leg had kept her off the court during her freshman year, at Texas, after she had been one of the top recruits in the country—at six-foot-seven, a dominant presence inside. The injury left her with tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills. In retrospect, Texas might wish it had just paid them.