- Source: LoreeJon Ogonowski-Brown
LoreeJon Ogonowski-Brown (formerly LoreeJon Jones, LoreeJon Hasson, sometimes known mononymically as LoreeJon; born November 6, 1965) is a professional pool player.
A child prodigy who began playing at the age of 4 at her home in Garwood, New Jersey, she picked up the game from her father, John Ogonowski.
Recognizing her talent, her father built wooden boxes around the table so she would be the correct height for him to teach her the sport. Her father was her instructor, and her mother became her daily practice partner. She ran her first rack of balls at age 5. She performed her first three trick shots at age 6 in Chicago at a men's World Straight Pool tournament. At age 11, she became a pro player with the Women's Professional Billiard Association (WPBA) and came to be known as "Queen of the Hill".
Aged 15, she won the World Straight Pool Championship, becoming the youngest player, male or female, ever to win a world championship. From 1981 to 1996, she won many tournaments, three WPBA National Championships, BCA U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship, WPBA U.S. Open 9-ball Championship, and the All Japan Championship. When she won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, she had held every title possible in women's professional pool. At the time of her 2002 induction into the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame, and 2008 Women's Professional Billiard Association Hall of Fame, she held over 50 major titles, and over the course of her career was recognized five times as "Player of the Year" by Pool & Billiards Magazine and Billiards Digest.
Coming out of retirement and making a comeback, Ogonowski-Brown won the 2017 Super Billiards Expo Players Championship. She was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in June 2022.
Titles and achievements
1981 WPBA World Straight Pool Championship
1981 New Jersey State 9-ball Championship
1981 Ruth McGinnis Challenge Cup
1981 Billiards Digest Player of the Year
1983 New Jersey State 9-ball Championship
1984 WPBA World 9-ball Championship
1985 Houston Red's 9-ball Open
1985 Motor City 9-ball Open
1986 WPBA World Straight Pool Championship
1987 B.C. Open 9-ball Championship
1987 Carolina's Cup
1988 King of the Rings 9-ball
1988 King of the Rings Mixed Doubles – with (Mike Sigel)
1988 Cleveland Spring 9-ball Open
1988 B.C. Open 9-ball Championship
1988 WPBA National Championship
1988 Billiards Digest Player of the Year
1989 BCA U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship
1989 WPBA U.S. Open 9-ball Championship
1989 B.C. Open 9-ball Championship
1989 Coors Valley Forge 9-ball Open
1989 Billiards Digest Player of the Year
1990 All Japan Championship 9-ball
1990 B.C. Open 9-ball Championship
1990 WPBA National Championship
1991 McDermott Masters 9-ball Championship
1992 BCA U.S. Open Straight Pool Championship
1993 WPA World 9-ball Championship
1993 WPBA National Championship
1993 McDermott Milwaukee Classic
1993 BCA Charlotte Classic
1993 Detroit Classic
1993 Sacramento Classic
1993 Billiards Digest Player of the Year
1994 Connelly Billiards 9-Ball Championship
1995 Baltimore Billiard Classic
1995 St. Croix Press Twin Cities Classic
1995 Gordon's Nashville 9-ball
1995 Gordon's Chicago 9-ball
1995 Gordon's San Francisco 9-ball
1995 Billiards Digest Player of the Year
1996 Gordon's Los Angeles 9-ball Championship
2002 Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame
2008 WPBA Hall of Fame
2017 Super Billiards Expo Players Championship
2022 National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame
