Wheaton's Dan Price named CCIW "Player of the Week"

Wheaton, lll. (10/13) - Wheaton College senior Dan

Price (Monument, Colo./Lewis Palmer) has been named the College Conference

of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) co-"Offensive Player of the Week" for his

efforts in Wheaton's 43-29 win over Millikin on Saturday afternoon. Wheaton,

ranked fifth in this week's D3Football.com

Top 25, is now 5-0 on the season and 2-0 in the CCIW. The Thunder will

travel to Carthage College for a conference contest this Saturday afternoon.

Price ran for a career-high 202 yards on 32 carries, averaging 6.3 yards

per carry in Saturday afternoon's key conference win. The tailback scored

three touchdowns in the win, including a 54-yard run into the end zone in

the fourth quarter that secured the victory for the hosts.

Price has carried the ball 98 times this season for 588 yards, averaging

six yards per rush with five touchdowns. He is currently second in the CCIW

in rushing with an average of 117.6 yards per game.

Price has run for 1,533 yards in his career at Wheaton and needs just 37

yards to move into 13th place on the school's all-time rushing list. He

is 433 yards from cracking the top-10 list of leading rushers in Wheaton

history and 467 yards shy of becoming the 10th player in school history

to reach the 2,000-yard mark.