Jeanette Lee (pocket billards)

Jeanette Lee (born July 9, 1971, Brooklyn, New York) is an American professional pool player of Korean descent. She is nicknamed "the Black Widow" for her tendency to wear black.

Career

Lee started playing pool in 1989. She turned pro in 1993 and within mere months was ranked in the top ten professional women players.Fact|date=May 2007 She went on to rank as the no. 1 female pool player in the world for a period during the 1990s,Clarifyme|date=March 2008 and received the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) Sportsperson of the Year Award in 1998. In addition to many top finishes on the WPBA Tour, she brought home the gold medal for the USA at the 2001 World Games in Akita, Japan and won the ladies' US$25,000 winner-take-all Tournament of Champions in November 2003. Jeanette also authored "The Black Widow's Guide to Killer Pool".

Also in 2003, Lee challenged Efren Reyes to a Cuegloss|Race|race-to-13 exhibition match at nine-ball, in Manila, Philippines, but lost 5-13.

More recently,Clarifyme|date=February 2008 Lee has turned to professional speed pool, including televised matches against the top male pros of the discipline.

For 2007, she was ranked #4 in "Pool & Billiard Magazine"'s "Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players" poll.Cite journal|title=The Survey Says...: "Pool & Billiard Magazine"'s 22nd Annual Player and Fan Poll|journal=Pool & Billiard Magazine|month=February|year=2008|volume=26|issue=2|issn=1049-2852|publisher=Sports Publications|location=Summerville, South Carolina|pages=p. 14|accessdate=]

Titles and achievements

* 2007 "Pool & Billiard Magazine" Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players, #4
* 2004 Atlanta Women's Open
* 2004 ESPN Ultimate Challenge
* 1999 ESPN Ultimate Shootout
* 1999 ESPN Ladies' Tournament of Champions
* 1998 WPBA Penn Ray Classic
* 1998 WPBA Cuetec Cues Hawaii Classic
* 1997 WPBA Huebler Classic
* 1997 WPBA Olhausen Classic
* 1996 WPBA BCA Classic
* 1995 WPBA Olhausen Classic
* 1995 WPBA Brunswick Classic
* 1994 WPBA U.S. Open 9-Ball
* 1994 WPBA Baltimore Billiards Classic
* 1994 WPBA Kasson Classic
* 1994 WPBA San Francisco Classic
* 1994 WPBA Nationals

Outside competition

As someone who has suffered from scoliosis, Lee is a strong supporter of those affected by the disease, and now serves as the national spokesperson for the [http://www.scoliosis-assoc.org Scoliosis Association, Inc] . She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana with her husband (professional pool player George Breedlove) and their daughter Cheyenne Lee Breedlove (born June 11, 2004). Lee attended the Bronx High School of Science, but did not graduate.Fact|date=May 2007

In 2007, Lee announced a planned chain of Black Widow Billiards Centers. The first center (a two-story, convert|31000|sqft|m2|sing=on facility, equipped for televised billiards events, and featuring a pro-shop, restaurant, VIP rooms, and a 500-seat entertainment center) is slated for the planned convert|1000|acre|km2|sing=on Carolina Crossroads entertainment complex in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina (which has recently come under scrutiny after several developer scandals and questions raised about public monies spent in developing it).

Lee appeared on Fox Sports Net's "Sportscience", where she Cuegloss|Pocket|pocketed 12 balls in one trick shot, on March 30, 2008.

As of 2007, Lee has been sponsored by and is aggressively marketing a new cue stick company called LiquidWick.

References

External links

* [http://www.jeanettelee.com/ Jeanette Lee's Official Website]
* [http://www.wpba.com/cms/?pid=1000976 WPBA Profile]
* [http://www.insidepoolmag.com/pool_billiard_photos/thumbnails.php?album=3 Jeanette Lee Photo Gallery]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060506045402/http://onthesnap.com/players/jeanette_lee.htm Onthesnap.com Biography (Courtesy of archive.org)]
* [http://www.carolinacrossroads.com/connection/press_release/black_widow.html Press Release for the Black Widow Billiards Center]
* [http://www.insidepoolmag.com/pool-and-billiard-podcasts/pool-podcasts-and-videos/jeanette-lee-at-the-derby-city-classic-2008-200801125828.html Video of Jeanette Lee on Xtreme Presbox (exclusive)]
* [http://www.insidepoolmag.com/pool-and-billiard-podcasts/pool-podcasts-and-videos/jeanette-lee-interview-2-200801125831.html Video interview 2 with Jeanette Lee at Inside POOL Magazine]