Julie Kelly

Julie Kelly is an Irish professional pool and former snooker player, born on 28 January 1968, who won the WPA nine-ball world championship in 2000. She was a sheepherder in Ireland and won the Irish women's snooker championship a record seven times before travelling to the United States with her friend Karen Corr to take up pool, selling her sheep to help finance the move. In Quebec City she won the 2000 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship, twice defeating defending champion Liu Shin-mei, beating Jeanette Lee 9-7 and beating Karen Corr 9-8 in the final. In October 2004 she won her first WPBA title, the Canadian Classic in Windsor, Ontario, beating Allison Fisher 7-5 in the final.