He was the 1974 CCAA Conference 220 yard sprint champion and earned NCAA College Division All-America honors.
[1] He was diagnosed with Autism as a child; he titled his autobiography for the Saturday Liberation schools established by the Black Panthers, where he learned to read in fifth grade.
[2][3] He was in special education classes at Ravenswood High School when he was encouraged to become a sprinter by his track coach, 1968 Olympic 200 meter champion Tommie Smith.
[2][4] He attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he was on the Mustangs' All-American 440-yard relay team and was the 1974 California Collegiate Athletic Association champion in the 220-yard dash, and after transferring in 1974, graduated from Fresno Pacific College, now Fresno Pacific University, in 1977.
[1][2][4] Prince later became a bank teller and then in the mid-1990s to present day, a special education teacher and coach of track and cross country at Sahuarita High School near Tucson, Arizona.