Ronda Price Brinley was a four-year starter on Lion volleyball teams from 1996-99 that had a combined 156-22 record and won four straight Gulf South Conference championships, made four straight NCAA Division II Tournament appearances and won two NCAA regional championships. Her 2,550 career kills ranked second in Division II history when she ended her career and she set 15 individual school records.
She is one of a small number of UNA student-athletes all-time to have earned both All-American and Academic All-America honors. An AVCA All-American pick in 1997 (second-team), she earned CoSIDA Academic All-America honors in 1997 (second-team) and 1999 (third-team).
She was the recipient of the Gulf South Conference Commissioner’s Trophy as the premier female student-athlete in the league in 1998 and was also the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioner's Association National Female Scholar Athlete of the Year in 2000. and was the Alabama Sports Writers Association State Small College Athlete of the Year in 1997.
Price was an All-Gulf South Conference and All-Gulf South Conference Tournament pick in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 and was an Academic All-GSC honoree in 1997, 1998 and 1999. She was selected CoSIDA Academic All-District IV in 1997 and 1999 and received eight GSC Player of the Week honors during her career. The GSC East Division Freshman of the Year in 1996, Price was the GSC Tournament MVP in 1997 and GSC Co-Player of the Year in 1997.
She received first-team All-South Central Region and All-South Central Region Tournament honors in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999. She was AVCA National Player of the Week on Oct. 5, 1997 and set an NCAA Division II record for career kill attempts (6,091) and attempts in a four-game match (81). She also set six school records and five GSC records. UNA’s Female Athlete of the Year in 1998 and 2000, she was awarded an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship in 2000.
Following her graduation from UNA she graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine and also did her residency at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She is employed as an anesthesiologist in Fort Wayne, Ind.
In 2013 she and her twin sister Rachel were selected as the Gulf South Conference's female representatives for the 40th Anniversary Division II team.
NCAA Division II Team of the Quarter Century
Gulf South Conference Hall of Fame
