Emily Price

Position:
SS
Height:
5-9
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Decatur, Ill.
High School:
Eisenhower

Exercise and sport science major ... Attended high school in Illinois but now calls Durham, N.C., home

2003: As a junior, started all 63 games at shortstop ... Batted .327, 10th in the Atlantic Coast Conference ... Hit .400 in conference games, the third-highest average in the ACC ... Ranked fifth in the ACC in home runs with eight and ninth in doubles with 11 ... Led UNC with 31 walks and ranked fourth on the team with 26 RBI ... Hit five game-winning home runs, including a two-out, two-run shot in the top of the seventh inning in a 3-1 win at Georgia Tech on April 17 ... Hi two home runs against UNC Wilmington on Feb. 19 and finished the game 3-for-4 with four RBIs ... Had two or more hits in 10 games

2002: As a sophomore, started 58 of the 63 games in which she played ... Started 38 games at shortstop and 20 at second base ... Tied for second on the team with four home runs ... Batted .250 ...Had multi-hit games on six occasions ... Went 3-for-3 against Temple on March 7 and against Furman on March 21

2001: As a freshman, earned All-ACC Tournament honors as UNC claimed its first title ... Played in 56 games and started 46 ... Made 37 starts in left, one in center, two at second, one at shortstop and five at designated player ... Batting average of .301 was fourth on the team ... Went 3-for-4 with three RBI in a 10-9 win over ninth-ranked Cal State-Fullerton ... Hit a grand slam home run at Liberty on Apr. 11

At Eisenhower High School in Decatur, Ill.: Earned all-state honors as a senior and was named to the second team as a junior ... Set an Illinois High School Association career record for doubles with 60 ... Finished second in the IHSA record book with 49 career home runs ... Set single-season school records for hits (60), doubles (20) and home runs (15) ... County Player of the Year as a senior and all-county as a sophomore and junior ... Named to the Chicago Tribune Super 60 Team as a senior ... Held a career batting average of .502 and a slugging percentage of 1.004 ... Did not commit an error in her junior or senior seasons ... Also played four years of basketball ... Basketball co-captain, team MVP and Defensive Player of the Year as a senior

Personal: The daughter of Mike and Jane Price ... Born April 19, 1982, in Decatur, Ill. ... Has an older sister, Katie (23), and a younger brother, John (10) ... Her father played basketball at Lakeland College

More on Price: Favorite pastimes are cooking, painting, shopping and "sitting around doing absolutely nothing with my friends" ... After finishing her UNC degree, plans to go on to graduate school then train professional athletes and own a fitness facility ... Favorite class at UNC has been Biomechanics ... Favorite things about being a UNC student-athlete are "being part of a family from Day 1 and meeting some of the most awesome people in the world" ... Started playing softball at age 4 after her mother couldn't keep her off the field during her older sister's games ... Always wears two different colored shoelaces when she plays softball ... In the fifth grade, tried out for the cross country team with a broken leg ... Says the word that best describes her is "selfless" and the word that best describes this year's team is "hard-working" ... Best moment of last season was hitting a game-winning home run at Georgia Tech ... Greatest moment of her athletic career was winning the ACC Championship her freshman year ... If she could play another sport at UNC, she'd pick basketball ... If she could trade places with anyone for a day, she'd pick Posh Spice "for two simple words: David Beckham"

Price's Career Statistics
YEAR	AVG.	G-S	AB	R	H	RBI	2B	3B	HR	TB	SLG	BB	SO	S-A	PO	A	E	Fld %
2001	.301	56-46	136	22	41	22	9	0	3	59	.434	7	24	3-3	34	10	0	1.000
2002	.250	63-58	136	19	34	11	2	3	4	54	.397	14	42	0-1	133	126	17	.938
2003	.327	63-63	165	30	54	26	11	2	8	93	.564	23	31	4-9	102	145	17	.936
Totals	.295	182-167	437	71	129	59	22	5	15	206	.471	44	97	7-13	269	281	34	.942