Western Carolina University

• Was a three-year varsity letter winner, Price was a two-year team captain who returned from an injury that sidelined her during her freshman season;   

• Named first-team All-District, first-team All-Region, and first-team All-Timesland; 

• Eclipsed the 1,000-career-point mark as a prep, doing so in roughly two and a half seasons; 

• Her father, JC Price, is the associate head football coach at Virginia Tech, where he was a All-America selection on defense and was a third-round draft pick by the Carolina Panthers in 1996 and spent time with the Arizona Cardinals … her mother, the former Jenny Root, was a standout women’s basketball player at Virginia Tech, scoring 1,582 career points to rank fifth in the Hokies’ record book … she was inducted into the Virginia Tech Hall of Fame in 2007. 

What Coach Tsip has to say:   
"We are excited to welcome Riley Price and her family to the Catamount women's basketball family. Riley is a versatile post player who can score inside and out. She works hard to get good positioning inside and rebounds the ball well. She has a tremendous work ethic and personality that will be infectious to her teammates. Both of Riley's parents were elite college athletes at Virginia Tech, with her mom being in the Virginia Tech Hall of Fame for women's basketball and her father playing football at Tech before playing in the NFL."