Most pool players have nicknames. Nobody knows why, but they just do. "The trophies, to me they're a simple equation. You have a little natural talent, you put in the time and with a little luck, and you might be the one to win the trophy that day. To have an impact on the sport, that seems like something to be prouder of."
With billiards, it's you and the table," Diamond Vic said. "People try to blame the table for missing this shot or that shot, but you're playing on the same table for a span of time. It's not like going on to the next hole in golf, where maybe they cut the grass a little bit different. Technically speaking, it's you and you, you know? You don't really have anyone to blame but yourself."
Women who played billiards professionally were harder to come by in the 1960s and 1970s. "It just wasn't something women thought about doing," she said. "They were playing, just not in an organized fashion. In retrospect it seemed to me like, you needed to give them a goal."
Vicki Paski attended the first meeting of the WPBA in 1976. But she wouldn't take a turn as the group's president until the early 1990s. And she was one of three people to plan the first professional women's billiards tour.
Read more about Vicki "Diamond Vic" Paski: Women's Pool Pioneer [Retrieved 28 March 2016.]
Grand Ledge resident Vicki Paski has several national billiards titles to her name. She was inducted into the Greater Lansing Area Sports Hall of Fame in 2011 and won the 1982 National 9-Ball Championship.
With billiards, it's you and the table," Diamond Vic said. "People try to blame the table for missing this shot or that shot, but you're playing on the same table for a span of time. It's not like going on to the next hole in golf, where maybe they cut the grass a little bit different. Technically speaking, it's you and you, you know? You don't really have anyone to blame but yourself."
Women who played billiards professionally were harder to come by in the 1960s and 1970s. "It just wasn't something women thought about doing," she said. "They were playing, just not in an organized fashion. In retrospect it seemed to me like, you needed to give them a goal."
Vicki Paski attended the first meeting of the WPBA in 1976. But she wouldn't take a turn as the group's president until the early 1990s. And she was one of three people to plan the first professional women's billiards tour.
Read more about Vicki "Diamond Vic" Paski: Women's Pool Pioneer [Retrieved 28 March 2016.]
Grand Ledge resident Vicki Paski has several national billiards titles to her name. She was inducted into the Greater Lansing Area Sports Hall of Fame in 2011 and won the 1982 National 9-Ball Championship.
