Lynette Horsburgh

Lynette Horsburgh is a Scottish-English semi-professional world champion pool player and national champion snooker player, and an international-class player of English billiards, who represents Scotland in sport and works as a web content producer and journalist at BBC News Online. She took up snooker at age 8 on a home table and was inspired by playing with Steve Davis at the Commonwealth Sporting Club in Blackpool in 1983. At seventeen she reached the quarter-final of the 1991 World Masters, and she was runner-up at the 2001 Women's World Snooker Championship and ranked number one on the WLBSA Ladies' World Snooker Tour in 2003 and 2004. She began moving into pool in 2003 and made it her main cue sport by March 2004.