Liberty Welcome Back Brooklyn Native Epiphanny Prince
Another WNBA All-Star is coming to the New York Liberty.
The team announced on Wednesday that Epiphanny Prince was signed to a training camp contract, marking a return to the Empire State for the Brooklyn native.
Prince, 35, previously played four seasons with the Liberty (2015-18), her second WNBA stop after five seasons with the Chicago Sky. Over the past three years with the Seattle Storm, Prince has hauled in several pieces of WNBA hardware, including the 2020 WNBA title in the Bradenton bubble and the 2021 Commissioner's Cup, the inaugural edition of the WNBA's in-season competition. Prince also appeared in two All-Star Games (2011, 2013) with the Sky.
In her two seasons in New York, spent between Madison Square Garden and Westchester County Center, Prince averaged 11.7 points and 2.8 rebounds. She was brought over in 2015 via a trade with Chicago that sent Cappie Pondexter out west.
Even before her Liberty days, Prince is no stranger to influencing tri-state area basketball: she previously starred at Brooklyn's Murry Bergtraum High School (just over three miles from the Liberty's current home of Barclays Center), notably setting a national prep school record with 113 points in a single game in 2006. She then starred at Rutgers University, partaking in the team's 2007 run to the national title game under head coach C. Vivian Stringer.
If Prince were to make the New York roster, she'd provide a championship perspective the Liberty has apparently sought as they try to establish themselves as a team to be reckoned with in the new WNBA. The team confirmed the self-reported signings of Breanna Stewart and Courtney Vandersloot on Wednesday, the former partaking in the 2020 title with Prince in Seattle. Stewart and Vandersloot will be formally introduced in a press conference on Thursday morning at 9 a.m. ET.
The 2023 New York Liberty season opens on May 19 when they take on the Washington Mystics.
Geoff Magliocchetti is on Twitter @GeoffJMags
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