Vivian Villarreal was born on 30 January 1965 and is an American former professional pool player.
12 Facts About Vivian Villarreal
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Vivian Villarreal 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.
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Vivian Villarreal sometimes helped with cleaning and became interested in pool.
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Vivian Villarreal started to play at the age of 8, and by the time she was 11, had accumulated 161 trophies.
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Vivian Villarreal gave up playing pool for about 10 years from the age of 14 to focus on her studies.
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Vivian Villarreal graduated from Lee High School, and went on to study computer science, book-keeping and accounting at San Antonio College.
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Vivian Villarreal started playing again, and participated in the Women's Professional Billiard Association circuit in 1992, winning her first title at the Wahine Open in Hilo, Hawaii her first year.
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Vivian Villarreal won several more titles over the following years and in 1996 won the ESPN World Open 9-Ball Championship.
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Vivian Villarreal is known as "The Texas Tornado" for her rapid and demonstrative style of play.
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Vivian Villarreal adopted a child in 1992, but the child was taken away by her biological mother in 1997 following a court-approved visitation.
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Vivian Villarreal spent some eight years searching for the child, who was finally discovered to be in Arkansas.
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Vivian Villarreal subsequently agreed that the child could choose where to stay, and the child continued to live with her biological mother whilst maintaining contact with Vivian Villarreal.