Full-time nurse, Seaver, turned pool champion
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. (BVM) — Jeannie Seaver is your typical neighborhood resident. She’s just like anybody else with a full-time day job working as a licensed practical nurse, and some hobbies like growing and selling orchids in her spare time.
But when the sun goes down on the orchids and her medical responsibilities are at rest for the day, Seaver becomes an elite pool player.
She frequents local bars like Stokers Sports Bar and Grill in Palm Harbor and Brewlands Bar and Billiards in Carrollwood, working on her craft as a pool shark. Except her skills will no longer be a secret.
In March, Seaver became the 2020-21 Women’s US Amateur Pool Champion. This is the most prestigious amateur pool award across the country, proving her masterful skillfulness by winning the tournament in a pool of players that included former champion Julia Sheerman of Port St. Lucie.
To qualify, Seaver had to be one of 50 players across the US to win a qualifying tournament. From that moment forward, she’s been on the up and up. She dominated the U.S. Amateur Championship, going undefeated in her first ever appearance.
As the big winner, Seaver earns an automatic bid into next year’s U.S. Amateur Championship to try to defend her throne, but she’ll also have the chance to make noise at the next level. Seaver gets paid travel, lodging and entry to a 2022 pro billiard event.
What people may not know is that in her earlier years, Seaver traveled the world playing pool with her former roommate Kim Ga-Young, a South Korean pool player. At one point in 2009, Ga-Young was the No. 1 female player in the world while Seaver was ranked the No. 13 female.
A decade later, Seaver continues to make billiards headlines.
