Shane Van Boening
Biography
The greatest American player of his generation and arguably one of the world’s top five players for more than a decade, Shane Van Boening has won virtually every significant title in the game, including the World 9-Ball Championship and the World 8-Ball Championship, as well as five U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship titles.
Born July 14, 1983, with a hearing impairment to a pool-playing family in Rapid City, S.D., Van Boening began playing pool as a young child and quickly became one of the country’s best bar table players, winning numerous national amateur titles. Venturing into the professional arena in the early 2000s, the “South Dakota Kid” immediately established himself as a top tier player, qualifying for the lucrative International Pool Tour in 2006 and broke into the winner’s circle in 2007 with his first U.S. Open 9-Ball title, the Sands Regency Open and the Predator International 10-Ball title.
Van Boening appeared in his first Mosconi Cup in 2009, pocketing the winning 9 ball in Team USA’s win in Las Vegas. He has since participated in 16 more Mosconi Cups and has played more than 100 Mosconi Cup matches, the most of any player.
Van Boening reached the title match of the World 9-Ball Championship in 2017 and 2018, losing on both occasions. He finally claimed the elusive crown in 2022, avenging his 2018 finals loss to Austria’s Albin Ouschan to win the title. Van Boening went on to add the World 8-Ball title to his resume in 2023, defeating Sanjin Pehlavonovic of Bosnia-Herzegovina in the final.
Van Boening won three consecutive U.S. Open 9-Ball titles from 2012-2014. In 2016, Van Boening claimed his fifth U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship, tying childhood idol Earl Strickland’s record.
A master of all games, Van Boening has earned two Master of the Table titles at the annual Derby City Classic (2011, 2012). He has won the event’s 9-ball title four times (2009, ’12, ’14 and ’16) and the one-pocket crown twice (2011, 2012). Van Boening has dominated in late promoter Mark Griffin’s U.S. Open events, winning the U.S. Open 10-Ball crown six times, the U.S. Open 8-Ball title three times, the U.S. Open One-Pocket title three times, the U.S. Open Bank Pool championship twice and one U.S. Open Straight Pool crown. He’s captured the Turning Stone Classic six times.
In all, Van Boening has won more than 100 pro titles. He has been named Player of the Year by both Billiards Digest and AZ Billiards six times.
Biography courtesy United States Billiard Media Association
- $5,700.00 3rd Derby City Classic 2024 Banks
- $8,000.00 2nd Derby City Classic 2024 One Pocket
- $400.00 36th Derby City Classic 2024 9-Ball
- $2,000.00 3rd Derby City Classic 2024 Master of the Table
- $4,600.00 1st 2024 Bayou State Classic 9-Ball Div.
- $5,400.00 2nd 2024 Bayou State Classic One Pocket Div.
- $900.00 3rd 2024 Bayou State Classic One Ball One Pocket Div.
- $2,700.00 2nd 2024 Skinny Bob's Nineball Classic
- $3,000.00 1st 2024 Skinny Bob's Nineball Classic One Pocket Division
- $875.00 17th 2024 Alfa Las Vegas Open
- $625.00 5th Apex Mixed Doubles Invitational
- $5,250.00 9th World 10B C'ship 2024
- $9,000.00 1st US Open 10-Ball 2024
- $7,000.00 1st 2024 US Open Bank Pool
- $7,000.00 1st 2024 US Open One Pocket
- $20,000.00 1st Premier League Pool 2024
- $6,000.00 5th World Pool Masters 2024
- $938.00 9th Jacoby Scottish Open 2024
- $4,000.00 9th 2024 UK Open
- $15,000.00 9th World Pool Championship 2024
- $1,750.00 9th Knight Shot 9-Ball Open
- $800.00 5th 15th Chuck Markulis Memorial 9-Ball
- $11,000.00 1st 3rd Weir Memorial
- $10,500.00 1st Big Easy Classic One Pocket
- $5,000.00 1st Big Easy Classic 9-Ball
- $9,500.00 3rd European Open 2024
- $25,000.00 2nd 2024 U.S. Open 9-Ball
- $1,800.00 5th 51st Texas Open
- $12,800.00 1st 51st Texas Open One Pocket
- $2,100.00 5th 2024 Battle of the Bull
- $8,000.00 1st 2024 Battle of the Bull One Pocket
- $750.00 17th 2024 Peri 9-Ball Open
- $4,000.00 9th Hanoi Open Pool Championship 2024
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2024 Year$201,388.00 Earnings3 AZB money leaderboard
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2023 Year$240,663.00 Earnings3 AZB money leaderboard
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2022 Year$140,597.00 Earnings5 AZB money leaderboard
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2021 Year$114,268.00 Earnings4 AZB money leaderboard
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2020 Year$32,300.00 Earnings8 AZB money leaderboard
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2019 Year$120,324.00 Earnings3 AZB money leaderboard
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2018 Year$112,222.00 Earnings1 AZB money leaderboard
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2017 Year$132,704.00 Earnings4 AZB money leaderboard
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2016 Year$187,565.00 Earnings1 AZB money leaderboard
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2015 Year$146,376.00 Earnings2 AZB money leaderboard
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2014 Year$186,460.00 Earnings1 AZB money leaderboard
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2013 Year$137,400.00 Earnings1 AZB money leaderboard
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2012 Year$157,423.00 Earnings1 AZB money leaderboard
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2011 Year$160,450.00 Earnings1 AZB money leaderboard
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2010 Year$76,391.00 Earnings6 AZB money leaderboard
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2009 Year$90,975.00 Earnings3 AZB money leaderboard
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2008 Year$147,420.00 Earnings3 AZB money leaderboard
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2007 Year$156,307.00 Earnings1 AZB money leaderboard
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2006 Year$18,987.00 Earnings92 AZB money leaderboard
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2005 Year$6,800.00 Earnings118 AZB money leaderboard
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