Emily Duddy

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It’s all a matter of pride.” ~Nancy Lopez~    

  Towards the end of 2006 I had a lot of things going on in my life, positive and negative. After graduating from the University of California Santa Cruz  in June of 2006, I began managing Campbell Billiards fulltime, working as a trainer and training employees at a Curves in Campbell, playing in every local tournament I could, and traveling to different regions of the US to play in WPBA [...]

Time has been flying and flowing lately. I’ve been working hard, organizing, saving and stabilizing. Unfortunately, that has left little time to indulge on my blog. Over the last few months, I’ve had my 26th birthday, been exercising and catering myself silly. I’ve had little time to practice and squeezed in a few tournaments, in [...]

This is one my pool teams: Kiss of Death. We recently won the 2009 BCAPL National 8-Ball Championships (Women’s Open Division) this past May. From Left to Right: myself Emily Duddy, Michelle Li, Borana Andoni, Gail Glazebrook (team Captain), Olga Gashkova, and Alison Fischer. It was an amazing journey and experience. We truly came together [...]

My very own blog and I’m not sure where to start. For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to possess this type of outlet. To share my thoughts about the world, people, politics, the arts, psychology, sex, death, pool and all the other intense shit that make life worth living. I’ve always had a more idealized outlook on [...]