Career
A star guard in her college career at Stephen F. Austin State University, Price"s professional career was cut short when she died by suicide in her rookie season. She was also a class salutatorian with a 4.25 Grade Point Average. In her senior year she led Louisiana Vega High School (Waco, Texas) to the 1994 state finals and a 32-4 record, and averaged 30.0 points, 13.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists, and 5.0 steals per game. The previous year, she was named 1993 Volleyball Most Valuable Player of District 17-3A, for her performance in that sport.
In her Division I National Collegiate Athletic Association career, Price was Stephen F. Austin State University"s all-time leading scorer with 2,278 career points and two-time Southland Conference player of the year.
A 5"-10" guard, she was a third-team Associated Press All-American (first team Academica All American) selection her senior season (1997–1998), averaging 22.1 points and 5.3 rebounds a game. As of 2001 Price held the record for most three-point field goals in a single championship game, with seven, in a game against the University of Toledo in 1997.
Price excelled academically as well as athletically. In high school she was second in her graduating class, and she made the Dean"s List every semester she was in college.
Several of the games were close, with the United States of America team winning four games by six points or fewer, including an overtime game in the semifinal match against Japan.
The gold medal game against South of Korea was also close, but the United States of America fell 76–71 to claim the silver medal for the event. Price averaged 3.0 points per game. Price was a seventh overall pick of the Long Beach Stingrays in the 1998 American Basketball League draft, but the team disbanded before she could play a game.
She was assigned to the Philadelphia Rage roster in August.
She was a reserve guard, playing in 12 of the Rage"s 14 games before the league shut down in late December. Price died in Nacogdoches, Texas, of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head
She was just 23 years old.
