While the TCU Women’s basketball team is preparing to play in the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament for the first time, the greatest season in program history has come along with the scrutiny of sexual assault allegations against star center Sedona Prince.
Sedona Prince: A Disturbing Pattern of Behavior
Prince, who first gained national notoriety for highlighting the inequitable resources provided to the women athletes compared to the men during the 2021 NCAA Tournament, has been accused by multiple women of assault or sexual assault, with allegations ranging from 2019 to this January.
The first allegation came while Prince was a freshman at the University of Texas. Alyssa Jimmie, now 24, told The Washington Post that Prince penetrated her with her fingers without consent after a first date.
Jimmie first posted in TikTok in 2021 that she had been sexually assaulted, but deleted the video after receiving threatening texts and Instagram messages from Prince that were verified by The Post.
Another woman identified as Jane Doe sued Prince last year with a similar allegation regarding an encounter in 2022, but she soon dropped the suit.
A third woman, Olivia Stabile, posted a video to TikTok in the summer of 2024 detailing a trip with Prince to Tulum, Mexico, where Prince shoved her off the back of an ATV and drove away, leaving alone and without a phone. The following morning, Stabile says that Prince struck her after being confronted about flirting with other women. Stabile shared graphic images of her injuries on TikTok, as well as screenshots of WhatsApp messages in which she wrote to Prince: “I don’t deserve this. You threw me off an ATV and abandoned me.”
Prince responded by writing, “Yeah, because you were yelling at me.”
Further messages between the two verified by The Post show Stabile detailing the abuse consistent in the manner with which she later publicly shared, with the same true of an account of the incident she sent to her friend Teda Baldeh.
Prince eventually wrote to Stabile “If you take this to social media I will sue you. You have abused me as well. I have video of the road burns and wounds you caused. If you do want to post about our breakup, I will sue you and your family my baby until you can no longer but poof on y’alls table.”
Stabile refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement.
Stabile’s video prompted Faithlynn Caruso, a 24-year-old from New York, to post that she too was assaulted by Prince, alleging to The Post that Prince had shoved her and thrown a chair at her. “I’m mortified that I treated you the way that I did,” Prince texted her the next day, according to messages Caruso gave to The Post.
Finally, in January of this year, a TCU went to the police department to report that she had been assaulted by Prince that morning.
The woman reported being strangled before later telling a detective that Prince had “grabbed her around the upper chest” but had not restricted her breathing. She provided photos of bruises on her legs and arms to the police, although those were not included in the report.
Prince soon went to the police to make her own allegation, saying she had been the victim of domestic violence and showing a black eye.
Prince has denied all allegations through her attorney, and a TCU spokesperson told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that “her status on the team remains intact.” Prince has not missed any games due to the allegations.
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