THE NEXT VENUS WILLIAMS
THE NEXT VENUS WILLIAMS is a HSer.
Albanese awakes at 5:30 every morning, practices from 7 to 10 a.m. and then again from 3 to 6 p.m. Three times a week, she works on her speed and agility at the Cris Carter FAST program in Boca Raton, a high-tech training facility owned by the former NFL player. Albanese also regularly runs up and down staircases at Florida Atlantic University and a local hotel she would rather not reveal because non-guests probably aren’t supposed to be chugging up stairwells without permission.
Sometime in between, she does an average of four to five hours of home schooling a day. She quit regular school after fifth grade.
”My goal is to turn pro as soon as I turn 14, start getting my points by playing in small 10,000s [$10,000 tournaments] and then by 18, be top five in the world,” Albanese said, matter-of-factly.