Ladies Night-for the whole enchiladas
It's Thursday and every Thursday the Ladies (term used very loosely) get together to defend our 2 time Canadian Ladies Eight Ball Champion title. It's always a great time! We have a great team and the core of our team has been together in one form or another for a number of years. We've laughed, cried, got married, divorced and we've even had a blessed addition of Hannah! Hannah is the beautiful daughter of Colleen, one of my fav's on the team. Hannah joined us last year for the North American Ladies Pool Championship in Vegas! Hannah was only 4 months old and Mom wasn't leaving her behind and we weren't going without Colleen. So we dragged the Nanny (lovingly what we called Daddy) with us to watch over our precious little mascott and she really was the hit of the week!
All the girls bring something special to the team. Our team name at home is "All Bust no Balls". When on the road, we are the Canadian Cue Tee's. I am the team captain, but not the best player on the team...I bring organization and decision making to the team and I was until this year the oldest member of the team and therefore most called me Mom. Colleen is the co-captain and being more skilled than I, she and Dawn another outstanding and longtime member of the team make most of the decisions about when to play who..or is that whom? Anyway Dawn and Colleen lead the team in both skill and the honour of being the longest standing members of the girls team, they let me join and I'm not sure how I ended up as captain but whatever. Both of them have different strengths and weakness and absolutely different personalities! Colleen is funny, loud and generally the sweetest most caring person (OMG I LOVE HER!) on the team and is known best for her chalk bowling or tossing depending on the mood! She has an outstanding ability to crush her opponents under pressure and has used it when necessary! Dawn is our anchor! Playing safe is her game and she can play safe like any pro when needed! Her game is strongest when in high level competition. Then comes Veronica, loud mouthed, opinionated and sometimes very crass Veronica! She is the best...says what's on her mind and couldn't give a flying f*ck if you like it or not. "V" as she is affectionately known plays a strong fast game and has kept us in there many times to move to a winning situation. She plays her game whether we agree or not! Hope is our next long standing member. She's been around since we moved from the mixed division to the all ladies division and has always been a consistant player. Last year in Vegas, Hope kept us in the money many times! Her good focus and great shot moved us along! Most recently we added Cathy, Cathy and I work together and we were looking to add a new low skill player to our team a couple of years ago and she agreed to play with us! Cathy helped get us to Vegas in a nailbiting match last year and she continues play with us to date. This year we added two newbies, Liza and Sherry...both are welcomed additions and add their own little personality traits to our team of "Bitches".
So we are coming to the end of our current season and up for grabs again is the opportunity for us to represent our division, our town, our country in Las Vegas, Nevada at the North American Ladies Pool championship for a third time. Our team has had this honour on two previous occasions. Both times we have fared relatively well. The first time we went down (2 years ago) we finished 9th out of 72 teams. Last year we went and finished 5th out of 65 Teams. That provided us with a ginormous trophy to bring home and stick in a place of honour at the pool hall we play out of! This year our goal is to go down and come back with the whole enchilada! Big Trophies and $10k US. In the past we have been the only Canadian Ladies Team. So tonight we play, we play hard and we play smart cause with only 5 weeks left every point counts! We'll keep you posted on how we do!
TTYL
All the girls bring something special to the team. Our team name at home is "All Bust no Balls". When on the road, we are the Canadian Cue Tee's. I am the team captain, but not the best player on the team...I bring organization and decision making to the team and I was until this year the oldest member of the team and therefore most called me Mom. Colleen is the co-captain and being more skilled than I, she and Dawn another outstanding and longtime member of the team make most of the decisions about when to play who..or is that whom? Anyway Dawn and Colleen lead the team in both skill and the honour of being the longest standing members of the girls team, they let me join and I'm not sure how I ended up as captain but whatever. Both of them have different strengths and weakness and absolutely different personalities! Colleen is funny, loud and generally the sweetest most caring person (OMG I LOVE HER!) on the team and is known best for her chalk bowling or tossing depending on the mood! She has an outstanding ability to crush her opponents under pressure and has used it when necessary! Dawn is our anchor! Playing safe is her game and she can play safe like any pro when needed! Her game is strongest when in high level competition. Then comes Veronica, loud mouthed, opinionated and sometimes very crass Veronica! She is the best...says what's on her mind and couldn't give a flying f*ck if you like it or not. "V" as she is affectionately known plays a strong fast game and has kept us in there many times to move to a winning situation. She plays her game whether we agree or not! Hope is our next long standing member. She's been around since we moved from the mixed division to the all ladies division and has always been a consistant player. Last year in Vegas, Hope kept us in the money many times! Her good focus and great shot moved us along! Most recently we added Cathy, Cathy and I work together and we were looking to add a new low skill player to our team a couple of years ago and she agreed to play with us! Cathy helped get us to Vegas in a nailbiting match last year and she continues play with us to date. This year we added two newbies, Liza and Sherry...both are welcomed additions and add their own little personality traits to our team of "Bitches".
So we are coming to the end of our current season and up for grabs again is the opportunity for us to represent our division, our town, our country in Las Vegas, Nevada at the North American Ladies Pool championship for a third time. Our team has had this honour on two previous occasions. Both times we have fared relatively well. The first time we went down (2 years ago) we finished 9th out of 72 teams. Last year we went and finished 5th out of 65 Teams. That provided us with a ginormous trophy to bring home and stick in a place of honour at the pool hall we play out of! This year our goal is to go down and come back with the whole enchilada! Big Trophies and $10k US. In the past we have been the only Canadian Ladies Team. So tonight we play, we play hard and we play smart cause with only 5 weeks left every point counts! We'll keep you posted on how we do!
TTYL
posted by Anonymous at 9:03 am
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GOOOOOOOOD LUCK!!! I'm crossing my fingers, toes, eyes, legs, uhmmmm, well, you get the idea.
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