Vivian Villarreal

Vivian Villarreal is an American former professional pool player born on 30 January 1965. She was the World Pool-Billiard Association world number one women's player for five years and has twice been runner-up in the WPA World Nine-ball Championship. Her grandmother owned Mollie's Lounge, a San Antonio restaurant and bar with a pool table, where she sometimes helped clean and became interested in pool. She started playing at eight and by eleven had collected 161 trophies, then gave up pool for about ten years from the age of fourteen to focus on her studies at Lee High School and San Antonio College. She joined the Women's Professional Billiard Association circuit in 1992 and won her first title at the Wahine Open in Hilo, Hawaii.