Katrina Price

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Katrina Price (December 3, 1975 – January 18, 1999) was an American basketball player.

Price showed significant promise in high school, and in 1994, was named Central Texas Player of the Year and co-Most Valuable Player for Central Texas Female Athlete of the Year. She was also a class salutatorian with a 4.25 GPA. In her senior year she led La Vega High School (Waco, Texas) to the 1994 state finals and a 32-4 record, and averaged 30.0 points, 13.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists, and 5.0 steals per game. The previous year, she was named 1993 Volleyball MVP of District 17-3A, for her performance in that sport.

In her Division I NCAA career, Price was Stephen F. Austin State University's all-time leading scorer with 2,278 career points and two-time Southland Conference player of the year. She was a third-team AP All-American (first team Academica All American) selection her senior season (1997-1998), averaging 22.1 points and 5.3 rebounds a game. As of 2001 Price held the record for most three-point field goals in a single championship game, with 7, in a game against the University of Toledo in 1997.

In international competition, in 1997 her USA Basketball team won a silver medal at the R. William Jones Cup in a round-robin tournament in Taiwan, losing only to the South Korean team.

Price was a seventh overall pick of the Long Beach StingRays in the 1998 American Basketball League draft, but the team disbanded before she could play a game. She was assigned to the Philadelphia Rage roster in August. She was a reserve guard, playing in 12 of the Rage's 14 games before the league shut down in late December.

She died in Nacogdoches, Texas of a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. She was 23.