The mounting story surrounding Texas Christian University basketball player Sedona Prince, accused of abuse by ex-girlfriend and TikTok influencer Olivia Stabile, has generated a great deal of social media and traditional media buzz in the last week.
The allegations have allegedly resulted in death threats against Prince.
None of that has seemingly affected is TCU’s roster with first practices to start in late September. An official with TCU confirmed to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Monday that Prince’s “status as an active member on the team is intact”.
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The statement comes on the backwash of accusation that Prince physically abused Stabile during a trip to Mexico. The incident, chronicled by Stabile in a series of 10 videos on her TikTok channel and seen by over 800,000 followers, including a situation where Stabile alleges Prince pushed up off a moving ATV and sped away in an area outside of the resort they were stay in.
Stabile also claimed that when Prince returned, she overturned the ATV on its side and pushed Stabile who attempted to offer aid.
Other videos also accused Prince of cheating on Stabile during the vacation and Prince making an initial response where the student-athlete threatened to “sue you and your family, my baby, until you can no longer put food on y’alls table.”
Since then there has been response and counter response. On August 15, Prince put up a statement via Instagram talking about threat she and her family received after Stabile released her videos. “
“The amount of hate, bullying, and death threats that my family, friends, and I have been receiving is dangerous, irresponsible, and disturbing,” Prince noted. “There is so much judgment and scrutinization by many from afar, with opinions and verbal attacks on stories with false narratives and inaccurate information that do not give honesty and transparency.”
Stabile’s supporter put together a response of their own in the form of a Change.org petition calling for Prince’s removal from the TCU women’s basketball team. The petition current has nearly 176,000 signatures with a goal of 200,000.
Prince, a 6-foot, 7-inch center, has been a subject of news and online gossip at period throughout her college basketball career. She was involved with another TikTok influencer, Rylee LeGlue, in 2023. The relationship ended in a similar fashion with allegations of infidelity and threats of legal action.
On the court, Prince is seen as much as being a figure of reform in college sport as well as scoring and rebounding threat. As a freshman at Texas in 2018, a preseason injury led to a fight over medical treatment and transfer rules that led her to leave the school for Oregon. The situation also led to clarification and overhaul over NCAA regulations on both matters.
As a redshirt sophomore at Oregon in 2022, she was best known her TikTok video showing the difference between the resources given to workout area given to that year’s single-site NCAA tournament in San Antonio as opposed to the fully stocked weight room for the men’s site at Indianapolis. The 38-second clip led to reforms and increase investments in women’s basketball including last year’s record-setting television rights package for the women’s NCAA tournament and other NCAA sports.
Prince transferred from Oregon to TCU after missing the 2022-2023 season due to injury. She had a breakout season averaging 19.7 points per game and 9.7 rebounds per game for a 2023-2024 Horned Frogs team that suffered so many injuries that the team was forced to forfeit two conference games. They also had an in-season tryouts to field a squad for the remaining contests.
TCU rallied to qualify for the Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament and Prince was a Lisa Leslie Award finalist as one of the top centers in the women’s college game.
Heading into this season, TCU brought in LSU transfer and 2024 USA 3-on-3 bronze medalist Hailey Van Lith and Kentucky transfer Maddie Scherr to compliment Prince and perhaps make a run at a Big XII Conference championship. Those plans are still in play but, like much of Prince’s recent life on the floor and off, they may be subjected to change.
