105 Collegiate Players....This is Good

Island Drive

Island Drive

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Here's the list, if this is true, it feels close to numbers when Varner and I played in the Midwestern Finals @ IU in 69. This means, our game is On the Rise if this demographic is rearing its head.
MEN
Tommy Adair
Hussain Aleid
Abdulaziz Alkhan
David Anderson
Ashkanov Apollon
Taylor Axley
Skyler Banfill
Charles Barker
Ernesto Bosque
Douglas Cady
Justin Chan
James Chen
Wilson Dorsey
Sajal Ghimire
Sam Gilmer
Mac Harrell
Jaydan Hergott
Carter Herrmann
William Hill
Ben Hockman
Dustin Hoffman
Kevin Hsiao
Minghe Hu
Bo Jin
Max Johnson
Ali Jomah
Matt Keith
Tai Lam
Stefan Le
Xiaohang Li
Raymond Linares
Ben Litvak
Alex Mann
David Masse
Zachary McKee
Paul Min
Derek Morris
Hesam Mosharraf
Hee Suk (Brian) Myung
Dan Otto
Brantley Oxendine
Sameer Pandit
Alex Pham
Andrei Popa
Mohan (Gordon) Qian
Ben Reynolds
Khadaffy Ripors
Winstone Seow
Matt Seus
Matt Shilinski
Stephen Skvarka
Thomas Smith
William Stem
Nathan Sweitzer
Corey Sykes
Cody Terry
Jonathan Ting
Nghi Ton
Elvis Tran
Nguyen Tran
Garrett Trickey
Pete Vieira
Samay Wadhawan
Philip Walker
Jia Hao (Jim) Wang
David Williams
Gallen Wong
Justin Wood
Yihao (Gary) Wu
Wenjie Wu
Jinghui Wu
Stephen Wyatt
Rui Xing
Yu-Han Yang
Sibo Zhang
Wucheng (Jimmy) Zhou

WOMEN
Samantha Adler
Cathy Jo Sawyer Almanza
Giovanni Aviles
Federica Bertolini
Miranda Blazek
Lori Buendorf
Rachel Cooper
Lyndsey Day
Tam Do
Megan Erickson
Ashley Ewaniuk
Yuna Farah
Andrea Flores
Ashley Gardner
Jocelyn Gonzalez
Xinran Hai
Cindy Ho
Junyu Hou
Jessica Jahn
Yenyen Li
Aislinn McCann
Amanda Nguyen
Minh-Phuong (Kristie) Nguyen
Annie Nord
Lilly Pham
Kacy Pugh
Vanessa Rabito
Krystle Radtke
Stacey Ann Rubio
Rachny Soun
Amber Sullins
Samantha Tsang
Rebbecca Weber
Sarah Weissberger
Audrey Wong
Meng Yi Li
Kelly Zahn
Yutong (Karen) Zeng
 
What exactly is this list of/for? You failed to really explain anything about this.
 
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Last year was the largest turnout in the history of ACUI collegiate 9-ball championships. Hopefully this year is just as good.

I'd say who I am on the list, but my screen name isn't a very good alias.
 
leto1776 said:
What exactly is this list of/for? You failed to really explain anything about this.
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Oops....it's the annual national collegiate pool championships. The disciplines have changed from 14.1 when it first started, to I think they play eight ball nowadays.
But the internet/video/asians/europeans/Everyone on the planet but the :scratchhead:U.S.A:scratchhead:....are chumming the internet waves with professional play, like no other sport. We're slowly pickin' up steam here, just gotta get past the ''negative waves'' or better yet, the Efren monkey, off our backs that society here has bestowed upon our sport. No different than the demonizing that the sixties brought upon the younger generation, if you smoked pot.
 
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For those interested, this is the ACUI (Association of College Union International) National Collegiate 9-ball Tournament list. A link to the program is here: http://www.acui.org/billiards/

And a list of past champions. There are some big names on this list. http://www.acui.org/content.aspx?menu_id=14&id=13181

The 2013 9-Ball International Championships will be held June 27–30 at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. The championships will be held in Sparky's Den, located in the Arizona State University Memorial Union.

ACUI is broken into 15 regions. Each region hosts a qualifying tournament where the top male and female collegiate finishers (based on number of entrants) are invited to play at the national level. There are additional independent qualifiers after the regional qualifiers to allow any students to compete regardless of region. This year, University of Michigan, Radford University, and Virginia Tech University hosted independent qualifiers.

It's an amazing program and I strongly encourage any student you know who is in college and likes to compete find more information about their region and participating. I have made some great friends over the years in this organization.

I am familiar and involved with these programs, so if you have any additional please feel free to contact me.
 
this will be a good tournament this year. Ill be rooting for my buddy Raymond Linares out of miami to snap it off for the third time.

The choice of the phoenix location is really making it a costly trip for ray. They only announced the location a month or so ago and flights to phoenix out of miami are about 500. brutal
 
I'll take Sam Gilmer to finish top 8 for even money. Or 3/1 that he wins it.
He must play to have a bet, if he does not participate then all bets are off.
 
The game has been 9-ball since at least 2002, the year I first competed. I competed when I was a graduate student, by the way, so it's not just for undergraduates who are in college.
 
1969

@ IU

Nicky beat me in the finals 150-148 and then went on to defeat Mike Carella in the Nationals 14.1 Finals that yr. Repeated the following yr. During this time period Hubert Cokes took em under his wing as I saw in Johnston City, and Hal Nix came in to the picture also.
 
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@ IU

Nicky beat me in the finals 150-148 and then went on to defeat Mike Carella in the Nationals 14.1 Finals that yr. Repeated the following yr. During this time period Hubert Cokes took em under his wing as I saw in Johnston City, and Hal Nix came in to the picture also.
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Wow, that must have been an exciting match against Varner. I know what it's like to be close. I won the largest region in the country four years in a row, made it to nationals five times, finished in the top five at nationals all five years, and lost in the finals twice (to Lars Vardaman, three-time ACUI champion). I also beat three national champs along the way.
 
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