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
- $16,000.00 1st DCC 2015 10B Challenge
- $350.00 23rd DCC 2015 1P Div.
- $1,250.00 9th DCC 2015 9B Div.
- $650.00 3rd Chuck Markulis Mem. One Pocket Div. 2015
- $575.00 5th Chuck Markulis Mem. 9-Ball Div. 2015
- $1,000.00 4th US BBox C'ship 2015 10-Ball
- $5,000.00 1st US BBox C'ship 2015 9-Ball
- $725.00 7th US BBox C'ship 2015 8-Ball
- $3,000.00 3rd Chinook Winds Open 8-Ball
- $850.00 5th Andy Mercer Mem. 2015
- $2,500.00 3rd SBE 2015 Players C'ship
- $10,000.00 2nd Carom Room Spring Classic 8-Ball
- $3,000.00 3rd Accu-Stats "Make It Happen" One Pocket
- $1,500.00 5th World 14.1 Tournament 2015
- $1,000.00 1st Tiger Challenge Match 2015 Van Boening vs Dechaine
- $4,500.00 3rd US Open 10-Ball 2015
- $2,250.00 5th US Open 8-Ball 2015
- $20,000.00 1st World Pool Masters 2015
- $3,600.00 3rd Turning Stone XXIV
- $1,150.00 5th Carom Room Fall Classic
- $15,000.00 2nd World 9B C'ship 2015
- $1,500.00 17th World Cup of Pool 2015
- $25,000.00 1st Challenge of Champions 2015
- $325.00 9th 1st Annual Tornado Open Men's 9-Ball
- $3,250.00 1st 1st Annual Tornado Open Scotch Doubles
- $2,500.00 1st Great Dismal Swamp 9-Ball Classic
- $2,250.00 25th US Open 9-Ball 2015
- $3,651.00 3rd All Japan Men C'ship 2015
- $10,000.00 2nd Mosconi Cup 2015
- $4,000.00 1st Accu-Stats Make It Happen 10-Ball 2015
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2024 Year$186,538.00 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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