Maryann McConnell

Maryann McConnell is a Canadian snooker and pool player. She was runner-up in the 1984 Professional World Women's Snooker Championship, and has won numerous pool tournaments in Canada. Biography McConnell started playing at the age of 24, at the University of Guelph in Ontario where she studied from 1974 to 1980. She later drove daily to a pool hall in nearby Kitchener, where she played snooker, practicing for as much as eight hours a day. In 1980, 1981 and 1983, she was a quarter-finalist in the World Women's Snooker Championship. For 1984, separate amateur and professional events were staged. McConnell entered the professional event, and reached the final, losing 2–4 to Mandy Fisher. At one time, McConnell was the second-ranked woman player. She was the runner-up in the 1984 National Express Grand Prix ladies snooker series, and spent the summer of 1985 living in Saudi Arabia.