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Chanelle Price                  Hometown: Easton, Pa. High School: Easton Area Height: 5-6 Event: Middle Distance Year (In/Out): Sr./Sr.

PERSONAL RECORDS

Indoors
800m: 2:03.12 (2010)
Mile: 4:44.44 (2011)

Outdoors
400m: 55.12 (2009)
800m: 2:01.33 (2009)
1500m: 4:22.87 (2011)

PRICE'S NCAA SCORING

2009 Indoor DMR: 1st, 10:50.98

2010 Indoor DMR: 1st, 10:58.37
2010 Indoor 800m: 4th, 2:03.95

2011 Indoor 800m: 6th, 2:05.42
2011 Indoor DMR: 8th, 11:07.86
2011 Outdoor 800m: 3rd, 2:03.02

PRICE'S SEC SCORING

2009 Indoor 4x400mR: 5th, 3:39.57
2009 Indoor 800m: 6th, 2:07.94
2009 Outdoor 800m: 3rd, 2:03.30
2009 Outdoor 4x400mR: 4th, 3:38.41

2010 Indoor DMR: 1st, 11:14.59
2010 Indoor 800m: 2nd, 2:03.12
2010 Indoor 4x400mR: 6th, 3:39.57

2011 Indoor 800m: 1st, 2:05.10
2011 Indoor DMR: 1st, 11:05.37
2011 Outdoor 800m: 1st, 2:04.22
2011 4x400mR: 7th, 3:38.62

2012 Indoor DMR: 1st, 11:12.23
2012 Indoor 800m: 2nd, 2:06.45
2012 Outdoor 800m: 2nd, 2:03.15

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Eight-time USTFCCCA All-American (indoor DMR - 2009, 2010 & 2011; indoor 800m - 2010, 2011, 2012; outdoor 800m - 2009, 2011)...Two-time NCAA champion with DMR...Three-time SEC champ with meet-record-setting DMR and 2011 SEC Indoor/Outdoor 800m champion...Six-time NCAA scorer and 14-time SEC scorer...Eight-time All-SEC performer...2009 SEC All-Freshman Team...Six-time Penn Relays champion, tying her for second all-time among Lady Vols...Owns two world records, three American and collegiate marks, and four UT bests...2011 Lady Vol Outdoor Most Valuable Track Athlete...2012 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient...2011 first-team Capital One Academic All-American...Two-time Academic All-District IV...2011 SEC Track & Field Co-Scholar-Athlete of the Year...Three-time SEC Academic Honor Roll member.

2012: Honors - All-SEC Outdoor Second-Team (800m)...Earned USTFCCCA Indoor All-America Second Team honors in 800 meters...All-SEC Indoor First-Team (DMR)...All-SEC Indoor Second Team (800m)...CollegeSports360.com Primetime Performers Weekly Honor Roll (Jan. 31)...Named SEC Outdoor Runner of the Week with UT's sprint medley relay on May 1...2012 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient...Indoors - Ran the 800 meters at the NCAA Indoor meet, just missing the final in 2:05.95 and finishing ninth...Earned USTFCCCA All-America Second Team recognition...A staple on UT DMRs, she was unable to run after becoming ill after her 800 race at the national meet...Ran leadoff leg for UT's victorious DMR (11:12.23) at the SEC Indoor meet, earning All-SEC First Team accolades...That was the program's sixth-straight win and eighth in nine seasons...Finished second in the 800 meters in 2:06.45, earning All-SEC Second-Team status...Posted an automatic NCAA qualifying time of 2:04.25 in the 800m, taking third in the championship division at the New Balance Collegiate Invitational...It was the fastest time she has run as a collegian outside NCAA or SEC competition...Won her debut 800m race at the Auburn Invitational, finishing in a then-nation-leading 2:06.41 for the fastest opener of her career...Followed that with a 2:05.33 victory in the 800 at the Texas A&M Mondo Challenge and had two key relay efforts there...Led off NCAA auto-qualifying DMR, which finished second in 11:02.74...Also carried stick for sixth-place 4x4, which clocked in with a season-best 3:38.18...Won the Gold Division mile at the Akron Invitational in 4:45.15...Checked in with a 4:47.47 readout to place third at the Kentucky Invitational...Outdoors - Had a season-best time of 2:03.15 to place second at the SEC Championships and card the third-best time in the country in the 800m run...Clocked in with her best-ever 800m outdoor opener, winning at the Tennessee Challenge in 2:03.36 with one of the nation's top-five times at that point...Also ran on UT's winning 4x400m relay team (3:45.09)...Won the 1500m in 4:27.15 and was part of UT's winning 4x400m relay (3:41.05) at the UCLA/Washington State Double Dual...Ran the 400m at the SEC/Big Ten Challenge, placing seventh at 56.17...Ran the open 400m in 55.61 at the Sea Ray Relays...Anchored Tennessee to victory in the sprint medley relay, helping UT run 3:43.79 for the No. 3 mark in school history...It marked her sixth Penn Relays title, which ranks her second all-time at UT...Also ran on UT's runner-up distance medley (11:03.53) and 4x800m relays (8:27.04) at that meet.

2011: Honors - USTFCCA Indoor All-American in the 800m and DMR and outdoors with 800m...All-SEC Indoor and Outdoor First Team...Lady Vol Outdoor Most Valuable Track Athlete...Capital One Academic All-American and Academic All-District IV...SEC Track & Field Co-Scholar-Athlete of the Year...Member of USTFCCCA All-Academic Track & Field and SEC Academic Honor Roll...Indoors - SEC champion in the 800m (2:05.10) and with UT's meet-record-setting DMR (11:05.37)...Sixth at NCAA Indoors in 800m (2:05.42) and eighth with DMR (11:07.86)...Ran indoor season best of 2:04.17 in NCAA prelims...Ran career-best 4:44.44 in mile to win at Texas A&M Challenge...Outdoors - Completed SEC season sweep of 800m crowns with a 2:04.22 readout...Finished third at NCAA Outdoors with a season-best 2:02.84 in the prelims and 2:03.02 in the final...Qualified for the USA Championships but suffered a fall in the prelims...Won five of her eight races at 800m, including Sea Ray Relays...Finished second at UT-UCLA Dual with a career-best 1500m report of 4:22.87...Member of UT's seventh-place 4x400m relay at SEC Outdoors...Anchored Big Orange to third in 4x800m event (8:27.29) at the Penn Relays...Ran on Tennessee's second-place DMR at Penn Relays (10:56.20) and victorious unit at the Sea Ray Relays (11:47.10).

2010: Honors - USTFCCA Indoor All-American in the 800m and DMR...All-SEC Indoor First Team...Member of USTFCCCA All-Academic Track & Field Team, SEC Academic Honor Roll and ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District IV Second Team...Lady Vol Coaches Award...Indoors - Logged a 2:03.95 readout to finish fourth in the 800m at the NCAA Indoor Championships...Picked up her second straight NCAA title in the DMR, handling the 800m leg as UT won in 10:58.37...Assisted the Lady Vol DMR to victory in a meet-record time of 11:14.59 at the SEC Indoor meet...Added a runner-up finish in the 800, covering the distance in a career-best 2:03.12...That mark was the seventh-best indoor readout ever by a Lady Vol...Contributed SEC points in the 4x400m relay as well, running the third leg as the Big Orange nabbed sixth...Won the 1000m at the Penn State National, posting a meet-record time of 2:42.71 that ranks as the No. 7 mark all-time by a college woman in that event...Outdoors - Struggled with a leg injury that prevented her from completing any individual races...Ran only pre-determined portions of an 800 and 1500 at the Sea Ray Relays...In her only relay appearances, she handled legs on UT's victorious 4x800m and 4x1500m relays at the Penn Relays...Helped UT record second straight three-win relay effort there.

2009: Honors - USTFCCA Indoor (DMR) and Outdoor (800m) All-American...Named to SEC Outdoor All-Freshman Team...Member of SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll and USTFCCCA All-Academic Track & Field Team...Indoors - Overcame a slow start indoors due to injury to cap the year with a flourish...Was an NCAA Indoor champion, handling the 800m leg on the world-record-setting DMR that ran 10:50.98...Placed sixth in the 800m at SECs and scored as part of the 4x4 unit that placed fourth...Outdoors - Placed 11th in 800m at NCAA Outdoors but was one of the top eight Americans, so she garned A-A status...Posted a career-best outdoor 800m readout at the Georgia Games in Marietta Ga., running 2:01.33 on July 19...During the summer, she won at the USATF Junior Championships (2:06.79) and earned a silver medal for Team USA (2:05.13) at the Pan Am Junior Championships...Placed third in the 800m at the SEC Championships and ran a leg of the 4x400m relay quartet that finished fifth...Sixth at NCAA Mideast Regional...Ran on all three of UT's victorious baton quartets at the Penn Relays...The DMR simply won, while the 4x1500m unit (17:08.34) claimed a world record and the 4x800m tandem (8:17.91) snared the American record...In addition to school records outdoors in the 4x800m and 4x1500m and indoors in the DMR, she helped chart an indoor UT best in the 4x800m (8:34.32), as well, at the Penn State National Invitational.

HIGH SCHOOL: Named 2008 Gatorade National Female Athlete of the Year and was recognized for that honor at the ESPYs...Also named the Gatorade Track & Field Athlete of the Year as well as state winner for Pennsylvania...Ran a then-PR of 2:01.61 in the 800 meters in June 2008 at the Prefontaine Classic in Oregon...That mark was the second-fastest time in scholastic history, placed her sixth against a world-class field and earned her an invitation to the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials...Finished seventh at the 2007 U.S. Outdoor Championships in 2:02.38...Three-time Pennsylvania Class 3A state champ in the 800m, setting a state meet record of 2:02.90 that also shattered the National Federation of High Schools mark as well...Two-time Nike Outdoor Nationals 800m champ, winning in 2007 with a time of 2:02.76...Went on to finish seventh at 2007 IAAF World Juniors...Prep PRs include 54.55 outdoors and 54.6 indoors for 400m, 2:04.96 indoors for 800m, 4:50.65 indoors for the mile and 2:45.76 indoors for 1000m.

PERSONAL: Born Aug. 22, 1990, in Livingston, N.J....Majoring in journalism and electronic media...Lists publishing a women's sports magazine among her objectives...Parents are Harry and Yolanda Price...Has a brother, Domenique...Recipient of the Wayne Basler Women's Track & Field Athletic Scholarship Endowment.

Q&A with Chanelle