Armintie Price
No. 22 – Retired | |
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Position | Guard |
League | WNBA |
Personal information | |
Born | Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
April 3, 1985
Nationality | American |
Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) |
Listed weight | 133 lb (60 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Myrtle (Myrtle, Mississippi) |
College | Ole Miss (2003–2007) |
WNBA draft | 2007 / Round: 1 / Pick: 3rd overall |
Selected by the Chicago Sky | |
Playing career | 2007–2015 |
Career history | |
2007–2009 | Chicago Sky |
2009–2013 | Atlanta Dream |
2014 | Los Angeles Sparks |
2015 | Washington Mystics |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Stats at WNBA.com | |
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com |
Armintie Ada (Price) Herrington (born April 3, 1985) is an American professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics. Price, who played collegiately at the University of Mississippi, was drafted third overall by the Chicago Sky in the 2007 WNBA Draft. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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High school career
Having moved to Myrtle, Mississippi before high school,[1] the 5'9" (1.75 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. Herrington, who also excelled in track, helped lead Myrtle High to the 2001, 2002 and 2003 Class 1A state championship in track and was a 15-time state champion in track as she won the 100-meter high hurdles, long jump, 200 meters, 4x100-meter relay and 4x200-meter relay her sophomore, junior and senior years. 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.
College 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 Miss 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 SEC and 32nd in the NCAA. She also led the team with 146 assists and 118 steals. Her 3.8 steals per game was first in the NCAA and SEC, while she ranked fourth in assists in the SEC with 4.8 per game Herrington is just the fifth player in NCAA 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. Price was named 2007 SEC Defensive Player of the Year, becoming the first player in the history of the league to win the award two times. She was a unanimous selection to the 2007 All-SEC First Team by the league coaches.
Mississippi statistics
Source[2]
Legend | |||||
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GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2003-04 | Mississippi | 31 | 462 | 56.1 | - | 63.9 | 9.4 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 14.9 |
2004-05 | Mississippi | 29 | 485 | 53.6 | - | 53.7 | 10.3 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 16.7 |
2005-06 | Mississippi | 31 | 548 | 48.1 | 38.5 | 61.7 | 9.6 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 0.2 | 17.7 |
2006-07 | Mississippi | 35 | 671 | 45.7 | 19.6 | 60.7 | 8.8 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 19.2 |
Career | Mississippi | 126 | 2166 | 50.0 | 23.3 | 60.0 | 9.5 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 0.2 | 17.2 |
WNBA career
The day after her 22nd birthday, Herrington was chosen with the third overall pick by the Chicago Sky, an expansion team of the WNBA. Herrington became the first Ole Miss 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). On September 8, 2007 Herrington was named 2007 WNBA Rookie of the Year.
She played for Mallorca in Spain during the 2008–09 WNBA off-season.[3]
Price was traded to the Atlanta Dream on August 12, 2009 in exchange for Tamera Young. In 2014, she joined the Los Angeles Sparks.[4] On February 10, 2015, Herrington signed with the Washington Mystics.[5]
She married Reginald Herrington on October 11, 2009.
References
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- ↑ Offseason 2008–09: Overseas Roster
- ↑ Sparks Sign Free Agent Guard Armintie Herrington
- ↑ Armintie Herrington Signs with Mystics
External links
- Use mdy dates from September 2011
- 1985 births
- Living people
- American expatriate basketball people in Spain
- American women's basketball players
- Atlanta Dream players
- Basketball players from Mississippi
- Basketball players from Wisconsin
- Beşiktaş women's basketball players
- Chicago Sky players
- Los Angeles Sparks players
- Ole Miss Rebels women's basketball players
- People from Union County, Mississippi
- Shooting guards
- Sportspeople from Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Washington Mystics players