Every NBA season before Caroline Price’s sixth birthday, she travelled with her father Mark Price across the country as he finished his honored basketball career. From Cleveland to Washington D.C. to San Francisco to Atlanta, basketball surrounded Caroline at a young age. She was in-and-out of NBA arenas and perhaps expected to follow in her father’s footsteps.
However, growing up in Atlanta, a tennis hot pocket, Caroline took a detour and diverted from her father’s game. She blazed her own trail and absorbed her mother’s sport, one played with a racquet and ball – tennis.
“We had neighborhood courts by our house that I grew up on and when my dad retired, my mom and him started playing mixed doubles on a team together,” Caroline said.