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
- $1,500.00 9th Chinese 8-Ball Masters 2014
- $3,000.00 2nd DCC 2014 Master of the Table
- $650.00 11th DCC 2014 9B Banks Div.
- $16,000.00 1st DCC 2014 10B Challenge
- $850.00 8th DCC 2014 1P Div.
- $16,000.00 1st DCC 2014 9B Div.
- $3,500.00 1st TAR 39 Van Boening/Reyes
- $3,800.00 2nd US Open One Pocket 2014
- $4,250.00 1st US BBox C'ship 2014 10-Ball
- $5,000.00 1st US BBox C'ship 2014 9-Ball
- $470.00 9th US BBox C'ship 2014 8-Ball
- $2,000.00 1st USBT C'ships 2014 Open Bonus
- $10,000.00 1st SBE 2014 Players C'ship
- $5,000.00 1st Andy Mercer Mem. 2014
- $3,750.00 2nd Accu-Stats All Star Invitational
- $10,000.00 1st Challenge Match: Van Boening vs. Ekonomopoulos
- $6,000.00 5th China Open Men's Div. 2014
- $5,000.00 5th World 9B C'ship 2014
- $500.00 2nd Kamui Challenge Match: Van Boening v Ko
- $1,500.00 5th CSI Invitational 10-Ball C'Ship 2014
- $5,000.00 2nd CSI Invitational 8-Ball C'Ship 2014
- $6,500.00 2nd World 14.1 Tournament 2014
- $7,000.00 2nd Smokin Aces Bar Box 9-Ball Open
- $290.00 9th Carom Room Classic
- $4,200.00 1st Carom Room Classic Mini
- 0th Castle Billiards' Van Boening vs. Shaw
- $1,200.00 9th Turning Stone XXII
- $5,000.00 5th World Cup of Pool 2014
- 3rd Challenge of Champions 2014
- $30,000.00 1st US Open 9-Ball 2014
- $1,000.00 5th 2014 Accu-Stats 8-Ball Invitational
- $1,000.00 5th Accu-Stats 8-Ball Invitational
- $20,000.00 1st World Pool Masters 2014
- $10,000.00 2nd Mosconi Cup 2014
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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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