Video: Price Twins are Right for West Point’s Run to Another State Championship

WEST POINT, Miss. (WCBI) — While Marcus Murphy and Chris Calvert carve up opposing defenses, it can be easy to forget the bowling alley sized lanes that helps the dynamic duo do what they do best.

The pair that makes that possible? Identical Twin offensive guards Jameek and Zameek Price.

The three year starters have been in synch since birth, and it pays off on the gridiron.

“In football you have different calls like solo blocking or double team or something that has like a hidden sign, but during the game, something new happens, you can’t think of a new sign but I can say a word and he knows exactly what I’m talking about, Zameek says. “We don’t rehearse it, we don’t practice it, when I say the word he knows exactly what to do.”

“Being able to experience it with him, we knew it was going to happen,” twin brother Jameek says. “This is how we envisioned it in our minds. So, whatever you envision and imagine in your mind, if you go for it, it’ll happen.”

“They love knocking people off the ball, and they have fun doing it,” head coach Chris Chambless said. “They don’t say a whole lot, they lead by example a lot of times. When they speak, people listen to them.”

Opposing defenses aren’t the only ones doing double takes when dealing with the identical duo.

“It’s been moments with dealing with teachers, like, he’ll be in a classroom, then I’ll walk by and she’ll make me come in there because she thought i was, you’re going to be tardy come in,” Jameek says. “I came in and he just left out and went to my class and never noticed anything. It’s always things like that that happen.””

“He’ll come to somebody, they’ll say something and he’ll respond, and I’ll come up later, and I’ll have the exact same response, everyday they’ll say your brother said the exact same thing you just said.” Zameek chimed in.

As humble as they are powerful, the Price twins say life can be a competition in the weight room and the classroom.

“You always have someone to compete with,” Jameek said. “We either, we’re never the same. He either ahead of me, the next time we max out, I’m ahead of him, we just keep competing. My mom tries to make it a competition, because she wants us both to do good, but she tries to make it a competition.”

No matter how intense the competition can get, Jameek and Zameek know they have a bond that can never be broken.

“It’s an amazing thing being a twin. It’s something special because that’s the closest person to your heart always and like I said, the relationship, even with all my brothers, I love all my brothers but I’m the closest with him. There are times when I really want to hurt him and everything, but when it comes down to it you always know you have somebody you can trust.” Jameek said. His twin brother agreed.

“I know if I ever need anything, he’ll have no problem doing it for me, and I won’t have any problem doing anything in the world for him.”

“We preach character,” coach Chambless said. “Being a good person, and those two are definitely outstanding young men, and somebody who their mother and father ought to be proud of, our teammates are proud of them, coaches are proud of them just how they carry themselves every day.”

The Price Twins And the Green Wave continue their pursuit for back to back state titles next Friday against Noxubee County.