The Dynaspheres Cup
BILLIARDS SPORTS NETWORK
launches The Dynaspheres Cup Series with Junior Championships Raleigh NC’s Joey Tate and Shenandoah, VA’s Garret Vaughan win their divisions There have always been junior players, far more of them than the numbers that have actually graduated to professional levels of competition. In an off-the-top-of-one’s-head category of examples, Johnny Archer was a junior player once.
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o was Shannon Daulton and a lot of other now well-known professionals like Billy Thorpe and Chris Robinson, to name just a couple. Events capable of accommodating the development of junior
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players have, however, lagged behind the increasing 21st century numbers of interested juniors. Until recently, the only widely-known avenue for junior competition was the
Billiard Education Foundation’s annual Junior National Championships, preceded by a number of nationwide qualifying events. Last month, January 7-9, On the Wire Creative Media launched a Junior International Tour,