Oracene Price

Oracene Price is an American tennis coach known for being both the mother and coach of Venus and Serena Williams, who are both widely regarded among the best tennis players of all time.

Early Life:

Oracene Price’s birth name is Brandy Price.

Career Highlights:

Oracene Price is an American tennis coach. She’s unappreciated as a coach. Price is not a coach in a traditional sense, though she did learn tennis herself to help teach her daughters the technical aspects of the game. Instead, she kept her daughters focused and disciplined and helped to build a solid foundation of self-esteem and outside interests for her daughters.

Price describes herself as a deeply spiritual woman. She has also described herself as being a rampant feminist when dealing with the overly sexualized images of women in the media.

Personal Life and Relationships:

Oracene Price’s father Albert Price was an automotive worker from the Mississippi Delta and her mother is Ora-Lee Price.

She graduated from Buena Vista High School in 1970 and went on to attend Western Michigan University. She hasn’t shared detailed information on her education.

Oracene was married to Yusef Rasheed and were together until he died in 1979 due to a heart stroke. They had three children named, Yetunde Price, Lyndrea Price, and Isha Price.

After Yusef’s death, Oracene got married to Richard Williams in 1980, to give a better life to her three little daughters. They had two daughters, Venus and Serena. By the end of 2000, Price was no longer living with her husband Richard Williams, citing irreconcilable differences. They got divorced in 2002.

Related With:

Oracene Price’s daughter Serena Williams is one of the most successful female tennis players. She has three grandchildren named Jair Bobbitt, Justus Bobbitt, and Jeffrey Jr.