With the North Carolina women’s tennis team tied 3-3 in the 2014 NCAA Championship match, Price found herself in a winner-take-all battle with UCLA’s Kyle McPhillips.
After falling down 5-3, Price fought off three championship points and forced the match to deuce seven times. But on McPhillip’s fourth match point, Price returned a volley just past the UCLA baseline.
The consolation prize was hers.
“I wake up every morning, I see it and I remember that horrible feeling I had in my stomach of losing and being so close,” said Price, now a senior. “It came down to my match.”
“I lost the national championship for us.”
That devastating defeat was over 10 month ago — and UNC hasn’t lost since.
The No. 2 Tar Heels have cruised to a 23-0 record thus far, punctuating an undefeated indoors season with an ITA National Indoor Championship — earning Price Most Outstanding Player honors and netting the team the top spot in the polls for six straight weeks.
But the team’s lone senior wants more.