We already sort of know there’s nothing too normal about Anna Leigh Waters.
When you’re the world’s best female pickleball player, have competed all over the country, and have enough trophies and medals to fill a house, there’s nothing standard about life or pickleball.
And certainly not school, either.
Waters is among several players on the PPA Tour who balance school, life, and being a pro. And that balance isn’t all that easy.
“Regular is not a word I use to describe anything that has to do with me and school,” Waters said. “Because I have to travel so much, I have to get ahead in school. This means, when I’m home I have to three times the amount of work that a regular student would have to do. And when I’m traveling, I do three times less than what a regular student would do.”
Waters is a high school senior who is home-schooled. That means she can certainly work at her own rate, but as she said, there’s a lot of catching up to do when she gets home. And with the regular travel and grind of the PPA Tour, plus extra events in Major League Pickleball, as well as all the other engagements Waters is involved with, it means an unbalanced schedule while trying to balance life.
This is not the typical high schooler. And Wyatt Stone wasn’t one,…
