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Chanelle Price                  Class: Senior Hometown: Easton, Pa. High School: Easton Area Height: 5-6 Experience: 3L

CAREER BESTS

4K: 14:52.67 (2008)
5K: 18:12.83 (2011)
6K: 21:32.27 (2009)

CAREER HONORS: 2011 Capital One Women's Track & Field/Cross Country First-Team Academic All-America...2011 Capital One Women's Track & Field/Cross Country First-Team Academic All-District IV...2011 SEC Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year...2010 ESPN The Magazine Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Second-Team Academic All-District IV...2010, 2011 SEC Academic Honor Roll...2009 SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.

2011: Ran third for Tennessee and placed 43rd overall in 22:02.84 at the 6K SEC Championships...Was UT's second finisher and placed 60th overall at the NCAA South Regional in 22:13.9...Logged a 5K personal best of 18:12.83 to run second for UT and 19th overall at the Crimson Classic...Made an impressive season debut at the 5K Tennessee Invitational, cranking out a then-career-best readout of 18:31.13 to place third overall and second on the team.

2010: Ran second for UT and 72nd overall in 23:07.35 at the 6K SEC Championships...Also was team's No. 2 finisher and placed 91st overall at the 6K NCAA South Regional in 22:24.36...Season debut came at the Front Runner Invitational, where she paced the Lady Vols with a 10th-place outcome in 11:37 on the two-mile layout...Made the 2011 SEC Academic Honor Roll, was chosen 2011 SEC Track & Field Co-Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was named 2011 Capital One Women's Track & Field/Cross Country First-Team Academic All-America as well as 2011 Capital One Women's Track & Field/Cross Country First-Team Academic All-District IV.

2009: After a long summer of running the 800m on the oval, she was inserted into the Lady Vol lineup for the final three races...Was a difference-maker, scoring in fourth position on all three occasions...Finished 18th at the SEC Championships in 22:14.42...Took 32nd at the NCAA South Regional in a 6K career best of 21:32.27...Wound up 17th in her first season appearance, checking in with a then-PR readout of 21: 37.12 at the Panorama Farms Invitational...Made the 2010 SEC Academic Honor Roll and was named ESPN The Magazine Women's Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-District IV Second Team.

2008: Ran in the first three meets of the season for Tennessee as a rookie...Led the squad in the 2008 lid-lifter, the Belmont Opener in Nashville...Checked in at 14:52.67 to place ninth in a field of 103 on the 4K course...Also had career-best times in the Tennessee Invitational and the Brooks Paul Short Run, running sixth for the Big Orange in those meets...Posted a 5K PR of 19:04 at the home event to finish seventh overall...Ran 22:04 to place 94th out of 301 competitors at the Paul Short meet...Named to the 2009 SEC Academic Honor Roll.

HIGH SCHOOL: Mentioned with the likes of Joetta Clark, Kim Gallagher and Mary Decker as one of the finest middle distance runners ever to come out of the U.S. prep ranks...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 2:01.61 personal record 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 800 meters, 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...Three-time state medalist and all-state honoree in cross country...Two-time district champ on the trails...Prep PRs include 54.55 outdoors and 55.32 indoors for 400m, 2:04.96 indoors for 800m, 4:50.65 indoors for the mile and 2:45.76 indoors for 1,000m...Made the high honor roll and graduated in the top five percent of her class...Volunteered with Special Olympics.

PERSONAL: Majoring in journalism and electronic media...Lists publishing a women's sports magazine among her objectives...Has one brother, Domenique, who played football at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania...Chanelle Pinease Price was born in Livingston, N.J., on Aug. 22, 1990...Her parents are Harry and Yolanda Price...Recipient of Wayne Basler Women's Track & Field Athletic Scholarship Endowment.