Julia Gabriel:
CLASS OF 1988
Granite City High SchoolClass of 1988
Granite city, IL
Julia's Story
Julia is from Granite City, Illinois. Julia's schools include Granite City High School. Julia later attended St. Charles Community College (Associates Degree) . Julia works(ed) at Cpm, Cpm.
Julia's interests include pool and golf, St. Louis Cardinals, David Freese, Allen Craig.... TV shows Julia likes include DIY Network.
One of Julia's favorite quotes is:"Today is the first day of the rest of your life!".
More about Julia:"Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
My pool career began in the fall of 1988 when I followed Jodi Williams into Breaktime Billiards in Granite City, IL. I was immediately hooked on wanting to hit those balls into the pockets! I spent every day I could in that pool hall for a couple of years! Within two years, I was entering 9 ball tourney’s as a 2 and then someone wanted me on their APA league team because I was ball making fool LOL. My team actually made it to the Nationals in Vegas in 1991 and that was the most awesome event that I’d ever seen! I don’t even remember if I shot well but we all won a little money! Later that same year, Donna Glasscock asked me to play on their team in Vegas for the McDermott US Open 8 ball event and our team took 1st place! Now I was REALLY hooked on tournaments! Then I moved to Oklahoma in 1992 and lived in the same town with a great female competitor, Wendy Hill, who I got to travel with to lthe McDermott National 9 ball events. I might have become a 5 handicapp by 1992-1993. Somehow I took in enough knowledge and won my first ladies bar table 9-ball event in 1994. It was a McDermott National 9 ball event in Tulsa OK, at the Tulsa Billiard Palace. I double dipped Bonnie Coats and won almost a thousand dollars! From then until now I have ...Expand for more
been in the top 5 if not first place in most 9ball bar table ladies events that I play. Staying involved in pressure play has really helped keep me ready for a tourney. I have always been on at least two league teams a week. The leagues have always been 8 ball but it never mattered. It’s competition and I want to be in it! In 2000, I was living back in IL and finally learned of an event at Palace Billiards in Chicago that, if won, would pay for a spot in a 9ball pro event ($500 entry). I went and I won! I even finished in the top half of that pro event and some people wanted my autograph! That was amazing! It wasn’t until 2002 that I tried to qualify for a pro tourny again because a friend wanted to sponsor me for a year! What an opportunity! After investigating my options to qualify for more WPBA events, I decided to join the Hunter Classics Womens Tour and won the 2nd event they had in 2002 at Fast Eddies in Austin Texas. For the next 7 years, I got to play in 2 or 3 pro tourney’s a year due to both winning qualifiers and getting invited because I had accumulated participation points. My best finish in a pro event is 17th place at the North Carolina Classic in 2008. I was ranked 49 at the end of 2008. For 9 years in a row I attended the BCA Nationals in Vegas every May. There I've taken 3rd place in the Open (2004) and the Masters(2007) and finished 2nd in the Grand Masters(2009). Yu Ram Cha from Korea got me but it was close! Since then, I've played in several Midwest 9 ball (bar box tourneys) and won a couple but not much else since then other than leagues. My local league is MO-8 Ball. They have a singles All Star even that pays $1000. I won it in both 1999 and 2008. The only female to do it yet!".
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