Armintie Price #22 Guard/Forward

Armintie Price
2011 Playoff Statistics
PPG7.5
RPG5.3
APG3.5
EFF +13.00

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2011: Appeared in all 34 regular season games, including 21 starts... Averaged 8.5 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game... Averaged career highs in points (8.5 ppg) and field goal percentage (0.519)... Named to the WNBA All-Defensive Second Team... Scored a season-high 19 points against the Washington Mystics on September 2, 2011... Recorded a career-high 10 assists against the Chicago Sky on July 16, 2011... Started all eight postseason games, averaging 7.5 ppg, 5.3 rpg, 3.5 apg and 1.6 spg.

2010: Appeared in all 34 regular season games, averaging 16.5 minutes per game… Averaged 4.9 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game… Started six of seven playoff games, averaging 5.0 points, 2.7 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game.

2009: Joined the dream in a trade with the Chicago Sky (Tamera Young) on August 12, 2009 … Played in 11 games, averaged 1.5 points and 1.5 rebounds per game.

2008: In her second season in the WNBA she appeared in all 34 games and started in 11… Averaged 6.9 points, 3.7 rebounds, and was ranked 20th in the WNBA in offensive rebounds with 57…She set two career highs with 9 field goals and 22 points shooting a perfect 4 for 4 from the line in the 5/22 game against the Sacramento Monarchs.

2007: Price had 34 starts out of 34 games played…averaged 7.9 pts, 2.9 assists and 6.0 rebounds per game…Named 2007 WNBA Rookie of the Year…finished 4th among rookies in both scoring and assists…Price set season highs in the 6/12 game vs. Seattle, with 17 pts, 9 FT made, 13 rebounds, and 9 defensive boards… Ranked 20th in the WNBA in assists per game (3.0)…Ranked 15th in the league and leads all the rookies in rebounds per game (6.0)

College Career:Helped lead Ole Miss to their first Elite Eight appearance since 1992… In her final game against Tennessee, Price scored 30 points…. Averaged 19.1 points per game, which ranked second in the SEC and 32nd in the NCAA… Her 3.7 steals per game ranked first in the NCAA and SEC… Ranked fourth in assists in the SEC with 4.7 per game… Price was the only SEC player to rank in the top five inscoring ,rebounding, assists and steals, and she joined Cheryl Miller as the only two players in NCAA history to record over 2,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 400 assists and 400 steals… Named a 2007 Kodak/WBCA All-American… Selected to the ESPN.com All-American Team… Named 2007 Defensive Player of the Year becoming the first player in the history of the league to win the award two times… As a junior she was named the 2006 WBCA/Kodak All-American Honorable Mention after earning All-Region 3 honors… As a sophomore she earned All-SEC Second Team honors and 2005 SEC Defensive Player of the Year.

Personal

Nickname is “Mintie” or “AP”… Youngest of five children… Inspired by her mother, Beatrice Price, who passed away from ovarian cancer at age 49 during Price’s senior year of college… Born in Wisconsin but moved to Mississippi prior to high school… Attended Myrtle High School in Myrtle, Mississippi where she also excelled at track… 15-time state champion in track in high school… Mother raised Armintie and her four siblings in the Pentecostal religion… Married Reggie Herrington in October 2009… In her second season as an assistant coach at the University of Mississippi.

Career Transactions

Selected by the Chicago Sky with the No. 3 pick in the 2007 WNBA Draft… Traded to the Atlanta Dream on August 12, 2009 in exchange for guard Tamera Young.