High School Girls Basketball

Laura Albanese, 21, started at Newsday as a news intern in June 2007 and joined the high school sports desk in November. She graduated summa cum laude from Brooklyn College, where she served as the Brooklyn College Kingsman’s editor-in-chief and earned her B.A. in journalism. She’s also written for the Daily News and freelanced for a number of Long Island community weeklies. A Brooklyn native, she grew up a baseball junkie in a soccer family and remains a loyal fan of both the New York Mets and Seria A soccer.