| Jeanette Lee | |
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| Born | July 9, 1971 , Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Nationality |  American |
| Nickname | "Black Widow" |
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| Gold | 2001 Akita | Individual |
Jeanette Lee (born Lee Jin-Hee, Hangul:이진희, July 9, 1971, Brooklyn, New York) is a Korean-American professional pool player. She is nicknamed "the Black Widow" for her tendency to wear black.
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Career
Lee started playing pool in 1989. She went on to rank as the no. 1 female pool player in the world during the 1990s, 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 won 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 twice, in 1999 and 2003. Lee also wrote The Black Widow's Guide to Killer Pool.
In 2001, Lee challenged Efren Reyes to a race-to-13 exhibition match at nine-ball, in Manila, Philippines, but lost 4-13.
More recently,[clarification needed] Lee has turned to professional speed pool, including televised matches against the top male professionals of the discipline.
For 2007, she was ranked #4 in Pool & Billiard Magazine's "Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players" poll.[1]
Titles and achievements
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Titles
- 2007 International Skins Billiard Championship
- 2007 Skins Billiards Champion
- 2007 World Team Cup Champion
- 2007 Empress Cup Champion
- 2005 China Invitational Champion
- 2004 BCA Open Champion
- 2004 Atlanta Women's Open
- 2004 ESPN Ultimate Challenge
- 2004 International Trick Shot Champion
- 2004 Women’s Trick Shot World Champion
- 2004 WPBA Florida Classic Hard Rock Casino Champion
- 2003 Tournament of Champions Champion
- 2001 Gold Medalist for the United States in the World Games
- 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
Achievements
- 2007 Pool & Billiard Magazine Fans' Top 20 Favorite Players, #4
- 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 Ranked one of the Most Powerful People in the Sport by Billiards Digest
- 1998 WPBA Sportsperson of the Year
- 1994 WPBA Player of the Year
- Formerly ranked #1 in the World and Player of the Year by Billiards Digest and Pool & Billiards Magazine
Outside competition
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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 Scoliosis Association, Inc. She lives in Mooresville, Indiana, with her husband (professional pool player George Breedlove) and their daughter Cheyenne Lee Breedlove (born June 11, 2004).
In 2007, Lee announced a planned chain of Black Widow Billiards Centers. The first center (a two-story, 31,000-square-foot (2,900 m2) 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 1,000-acre (4.0 km2) Carolina Crossroads entertainment complex in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
As of December 2009, Jeanette Lee and her husband have moved to the Tampa, FL area and are house shopping. She will be the new "house pro" at Strokers II (formerly Planet 9 Ball) on Hillsborough Avenue in the Town-&-Country part of Tampa. The 3-cushion Billiards table at the front of the pool hall is her personal table, which she has placed on "permanent loan" to the owner, Jose. On December 19 she and her husband put on a 4-hour exhibition at Strokers II, where she announced her move to Tampa.
Lee appeared on Fox Sports Net's Sportscience, where she 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
- ^ "The Survey Says...: Pool & Billiard Magazine's 22nd Annual Player and Fan Poll". Pool & Billiard Magazine (Summerville, South Carolina: Sports Publications) 26 (2): p. 14. February 2008. ISSN 1049-2852.
External links
- Jeanette Lee's Official Website
- WPBA Profile
- Jeanette Lee Photo Gallery
- Onthesnap.com Biography (Courtesy of archive.org)
- Press Release for the Black Widow Billiards Center
- Video of Jeanette Lee on Xtreme Presbox (exclusive)
- Video interview 2 with Jeanette Lee at Inside POOL Magazine
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