Missy is a well-known and well-liked pool player who is known for being fair, for being a good sport and always having fun with the teams she plays against. She worked very hard this year promoting pool to different segments of the population and worked equally hard in league and tournament play where she has had one of the best years she’s ever had!
In addition to promoting and playing pool, she had several noteworthy achievements. (Additional achievements can be found following the section “On the Table” Achievements)
v She is the first and only female BCA Certified Instructor, Level II, (March 6, 2004) in Ohio and 1 of 2 in the world! Although she enjoys instructing all different kinds of players, her area of expertise is with junior players, women and any person with an emotional problem.
v To date she’s given about 140 hours of pool lessons - au gratis - and is the area’s premiere instructor of junior players.
v She ran the areas largest junior pool league where her kids raised money in December and used $70 (which was 1/2 of their total!) to purchase needed items for the kids of the Canton Battered Women’s Shelter (Jan 2004). Missy strongly believes that a “helping” behavior should be nurtured early in life and so is beginning to instill helping behavior in her junior players!
v These are, of course, the more important things she’s done – promoting pool and helping others over and above herself. What follows is just the icing on the cake!
v 1st: Fox and Hound Charity 9ball event, singles (August 2003)
v 3rd: Fiddlestix Friday Night Open tmt, – the toughest tmt around and defeating many “A” players each week! (Oct 2, 2003)
v 2nd: Fiddlestix Friday Night Open tmt; in this tmt Missy had to jump balls to make the “8” for a win! (Oct 17, 2003)
v 3rd: Fiddlestix Friday Night Open tmt (Oct 24, 2004)
v 3rd: Fiddlestix Friday Night Open tmt (Nov 11, 2004)
v 3rd: Fiddlestix Friday Night Open tmt (Dec 2003)
v 3rd: Oasis Friday Night Open tmt (Jan 9, 2004)
v 5th: Oasis Sunday Tournament (Jan 11, 2004)
v Cashed: Kromer’s Metroplex Team tmt (February, 2004)
v 5th: Oasis Friday Night Open tmt (Mar 26, 2004)
v 8th: VNEA Gold Division Singles year end tmt
v 1st: Loop Open Scotch Doubles tmt
v 4th: Loop Open Scotch Doubles tmt (May 2004)
v 7/8: Oasis Friday Night Open tmt (May 29? 2004)
v Played in the very tough BCA Saturday 3person league and was the top female player
v Female MVP, VNEA Gold Division
v 2nd MVP Massillon Women’s League; Missy missed MVP by only 1 game even after missing several weeks of play! Highest league percentage! (May 2004)
v 17th: VNEA State Open Women’s Division, Team tmt (April 2004)
v 2nd: Massillon Women’s League, Team (May 2004)
v Only female to play Straight Pool competitively in league! (May 2004)
v Organized and ran, with the help of other National Academy of Pocket Billiards (NAPB) instructors, the first ever Fundamental Pool Playing Skills Clinic to youths ranging in age from 7-17, (October 2003 @ Fiddlestix)
v Part of a team to run the GCABA Annual 8ball Tournament, (October 2003 @ Fiddlestix)
v Organized and ran the first ever Straight Pool Clinic for six youths ages 18 and under; lessons in fundamentals were given and younger kids played a modified game commensurate with their knowledge and ability, aka Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum for children, (January 2004 @ Fiddlestix)
v Ran the first ever 9ball Junior/Parent Scotch Doubles Tournament, (February 2004 @ Fiddlestix); family involvement is very important to Missy!
v Ran a second 9ball Junior/Parent Scotch Doubles Tournament, (Spring 2004 @ Fiddlestix)
v Part of the NAPB team to teach pool to teens experiencing problems with addiction at Edwin Shaw Rehabilitation Hospital, (September-March, 2003); this has never been done before
v Part of the NAPB team to teach pool to adults at Edwin Shaw Rehabilitation Hospital, (September-March, 2003); this has never been done before
v Wrote the areas first ever “Pool in School!” proposal, to bring pool into area schools as a billiard club, (March/April 2004)
v Contracted with Massillon Recreational Center/Parks System to teach pool as part of their structured class offerings, (May 2004)
v In a marriage between training in mental health, years of experience with children and adults, and 30 years of pool playing experience, she wrote a technical paper “Healing and Therapeutic Aspects of Pool for Children Experiencing Difficult Developmental Transitions” (May 2004); she is going to research to try to have it published in a Sports or Counseling or Education Journal; read aloud at “All for Kids…..” event, June 2004
Just a few of the players Missy defeated and/or put out of the tmts include: Ben Zimmer, Don Mammone, Lenny Weaver, Brian Bossart, Dan Capestrain, plus other out-of-towners that we didn’t know.
Missy had a great year all the way around!
She not only played great pool, but also was the biggest pool promoter of the year!
Thanks!