Rachel Price Bell was a four-year starter on Lion volleyball teams from 1996-99 that had a combined 156-22 record. The Lions won four straight Gulf South Conference championships, made four straight NCAA Division II Tournament appearances and won two NCAA regional championships. She played in a school record 593 games and 178 matches and had 1,539 kills. She and her sister Ronda are two of only five UNA student-athletes all-time to have earned both All-American and Academic All-America honors. She was a second-team AVCA All-American pick in 1998 and 1999 and was a CoSIDA Academic All-America selection in 1998 (third-team) and 1999 (first-team). She was also a CoSIDA Academic All-District IV pick in 1997, 1998 and 1999, an Academic All-GSC honoree in 1997, 1998 and 1999 and received the Gulf South Conference Commissioner’s Trophy as the premier female student-athlete in the league in 1999 and 2000.
An All-Gulf South Conference and All-Gulf South Conference Tournament pick in 1998 and 1999, she also received two GSC Player of the Week honors. She was an All-South Central Region selection 1997, 1998 and 1999 and also received All-South Central Region Tournament honors in 1998 and 1999. She was named South Central Region MVP in 1999. An AVCA National Player of the Week on Oct. 10, 1999, she was UNA’s Female Athlete of the Year in 2000 and was awarded an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship in 2000.
Following her graduation from UNA, Price earned a Phd. in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue University and is currently employed as a clinical project manager in West Lafayette, Ind.
In 2013 she and her twin sister Ronda were named as the Gulf South Conference's top female student-athletes for the 40th Anniversary of the NCAA Division II and were honored at the NCAA Convention in San Diego.
She has since been inducted into the Gulf South Hall of Fame and the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame.
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Division II Team of the Quarter Century.
Gulf South Conference Hall of Fame
2017 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame Induction, being interviewd by ESPN's Rece Davis.
2017 CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame class, with Dick Enberg
