Expert 6-foot-7 heart Sedona Prince didn’t hear her identify known as at Monday’s WNBA draft.
Prince was projected to go as excessive as late first spherical, however a sequence of regarding allegations made her one of many hardest WNBA prospects to guage.
A number of girls have accused Prince of sexual assault or abuse in current months.
She additionally confronted backlash from followers, with greater than 200,000 individuals signing a Change.org petition to have her faraway from the TCU girls’s basketball workforce.
Prince denied these allegations in a social media publish in August and has not been charged with any crime.
“Sedona has not been charged with a criminal offense or discovered responsible of any wrongdoing,” Prince’s lawyer, A. Boone Almanza, informed ESPN in an announcement earlier than the draft.
“Reasonably she has been convicted on social media by individuals who have tried to make use of their relationship with Sedona to draw followers and to construct their influencer careers and settle grudges. To the extent she has made any errors completely different from different younger individuals of their early courting life it was solely the choice to be on TikTok.”
Prince has over 2.5 million TikTok followers, and her relationship with influencer Olivia Stabile got here beneath scrutiny when Stabile posted a 10-part sequence claiming Prince pushed her off an ATV whereas on trip in Mexico.
Almanza denied these accusations and mentioned that the 2 had been in separate ATV accidents whereas on the journey.
Two others have additionally publicly made accusations in opposition to the hoops star, whereas The Washington Publish reported that Prince confronted a lawsuit that alleged “Prince grabbed Jane Doe and forcibly kissed her, took her hand and inserted it into Prince’s pants.”
The lawsuit was later withdrawn.
After going undrafted, there’s nonetheless the likelihood for Prince to be signed to a training-camp contract or proceed a enjoying profession abroad.
Prince, 24, had her school profession derailed quite a few instances by accidents.
Final season with TCU — her third faculty (Texas, Oregon) in seven years — she averaged 17.2 factors, 9.4 rebounds, three blocks and a couple of.4 assists and helped the Horned Frogs to this system’s first Elite Eight.
