Background
Price, Armintie Ada was born on April 3, 1985 in Myrtle, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Ricky L. and Beatrice C. Price.
Price, Armintie Ada was born on April 3, 1985 in Myrtle, Mississippi, United States. Daughter of Ricky L. and Beatrice C. Price.
Student in Liberal Arts, University Mississippi, 2003—2007.
Price, who played collegiately at the University of Mississippi, was drafted third overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2007 Women's National Basketball Association Draft. Having moved to Myrtle, Mississippi before high school, the 5"9" (175 m) Herrington became a star player at Myrtle High School and received numerous honors, including being named to the Clarion-Ledger"s Dandy Dozen (Mississippi"s top twelve high school basketball players) as a senior. Herrington averaged 31.0 points, 22.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 5.0 steals as a senior and helped lead Myrtle High to the 2003 Class 1A state title and to Class 1A state runner-up finishes as a sophomore and junior.
Because of her religion which stated females must wear feminine apparel (skirts), her mother encouraged her to wear a skirt throughout her high school basketball career.
While attending the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi, Herrington became one of the most decorated athletes of all time playing for coach Carol Ross"s Ole Mission Rebels women"s basketball team from 2003 to 2007. During her senior year, she averaged a team leading 18.1 points per game, which ranked second in the Securities and Exchange Commission and 32nd in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. She also led the team with 146 assists and 118 steals.
Her 3.8 steals per game was first in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Securities and Exchange Commission, while she ranked fourth in assists in the Securities and Exchange Commission with 4.8 per game Herrington is just the fifth player in National Collegiate Athletic Association history to record over 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 300 assists and 300 steals joining Cheryl Miller, Chamique Holdsclaw, Tamika Catchings and Sophia Young. She was a unanimous selection to the 2007 All-Securities and Exchange Commission First Team by the league coaches.
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The day after her 22nd birthday, Herrington was chosen with the third overall pick by the Chicago Sky, an expansion team of the Women's National Basketball Association. Herrington became the first Ole Mission player selected in the first round of the draft’s eleven-year history.
She is also just the second Lady Rebel to be selected in the draft (Saundra Jackson was a third-round pick in 2002). She played for Mallorca in Spain during the 2008-2009 Women's National Basketball Association off-season. Price was traded to the Atlanta Dream on August 12, 2009 in exchange for Tamera Young.
In 2014, she joined the Los Angeles Sparks.
On February 10, 2015, Herrington signed with the Washington Mystics.