life membership

Life Membership

Below are people who have been awarded Life Membership of the Australian Eight-Ball Federation – The AEBF and States / Territories thank them for their involvement with the AEBF and 8 Ball at all levels of the sport.

  • Pam Rowe 1991
  • Lance Sheen 1996
  • Ken Kernich 2001
  • Lauri Sheen 2002
  • Terry Green 2003
  • Joe Fanto 2006
  • Andrew Saltmarsh 2007
  • Doug Percy 2008
  • Warren Ross 2011
  • Cheryl Congram 2016

2020 AEBF Committee

2020 Annual General Meeting – 2020 AEBF Committee Elected Officers

Dear Australian Eight Ball Federation Members,

The 2020 Annual General Meeting of the Australian Eight Ball Federation was held on Saturday. It was very reassuring to see so many skilled and experienced people willing to fill the positions vacated by the outgoing 2019 committee members. We had an exciting day on the calendar which saw healthy competition for many of the vacated positions.

We are pleased to announce the following officers on the Executive and Development Committee:

Executive Committee

President: Travis Crawley
Vice President: Sawan Naker
Secretary: Mark McAleer
Treasurer: Melissa Crawley
Administrator: Scott Henderson

Development Committee

Coaching Director: Gregg Dingle
Junior Development Officer: Chris Jeffery
Media Officer: Drew McGrath
Promotional Coordinator: Drew McGrath
Rules & Umpires Director: Gregg Dingle
Tournament Director: Mark McAleer

Congratulations to everyone on their appointment to the committee, and good luck in your role for the year ahead. This team brings a wealth of experience in many areas, which will see the sport move forward in leaps and bounds over the next term. With a mixture of current national players and individuals with specialised skills, our mindset is to produce the best game possible for all of our members around the country. Increasing opportunities for members will be one of our main goals, and this team is focused on bringing the game to the forefront of Australian sport. The future of Eight Ball in Australia is bright!

In moving forward, we would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of the outgoing committee members, Greg Costello, Tracy Butterworth and Paul Thorn. The huge amount of passion and commitment exhibited by these individuals has been invaluable to Eight ball in Australia, and the sport is in a better place because of your efforts. Thank you for your dedication to bring the Australian Eight Ball Federation to where it is now, and we wish you well in your endeavours.

Kind regards,

Mark McAleer | Secretary

For and on behalf of the Australian Eight Ball Federation (AEBF)

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ASADA – Drug Testing

Check your substances on Global DRO
Athletes and support personnel can use Global DRO (online search tool) to find out whether the most commonly prescribed and over-the-counter medicines in Australia are permitted or prohibited in their sport.

https://globaldro.com/AU/search

User Type = Athlete
Sport = Billiards
Nation of Purchase = Australia
Search for = medication

TERM AND CONDITIONS = accept
Total Results = click on the medication
Ingredient Status + Options, View as PDF, Send to Email, Ask a Question

 

Reference

AEBF Anti Doping Policy

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Nationals 2018 – Streaming

Mitchell Billiards and the Commercial Club present the 2018 National 8Ball Championships

The AEBF welcome Cue Ball Tv and Poolstat back to the Nationals for 2018 being held at the Commercial Club, Albury

The Nationals will be played from Thursday October 18th through to Finals day Friday October 26th and Presentation Night on Saturday October 27th

Streaming will be provided by the AEBF Live Stream and Cue Ball Tv, giving you 2 matches per session to choose from and various singles matches

Results will be Live through Poolstat, which will be viewable through the AEBF web site

Cue Ball Tv: www.youtube.com/user/cueballtv

AEBF Live Stream: www.youtube.com/user/aebf8ball

Credit to www.poolstat.net.au

 

Sanction Rule Removed

World Eightball AGM 2018

Players now free to play all discipline of cue sports without fear of a ban

The World Eightball Pool Federation have removed their by-law of 14a – 

‘Any player who plays for a team purporting to be a National team, or who plays as an individual in an event without the sanction of the European Eight-ball Pool Federation or the World Eight-ball Pool Federation, shall be liable to suspension.’

This is great news to hear as the Australian Eight-Ball Federation (AEBF) and it’s members States/Territories with support from players around Australia and the World have been pushing for this rule to be removed for some time and through the AEBF attendance at the World AGM this as now happened.

 

Proposed dates for future nationals

Proposed dates

The Mitchell Billiards
Australian Eight Ball ‘Senior Nationals’ Championships
Nationals event dates,
Thursday (opening) to Saturday (presentation)

  • 9th-18th November 2017 –  Canberra ACT
    18th-27th October 2018 – Commercial Club (Albury) confirmed dates
    17th-26th October 2019
    15th-24th October 2020