Public Speaking and the BEF Junior Nationals

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8053118123465587369.post-84395334453706054392009-07-24T00:40:00.014-05:002009-07-28T16:45:21.346-05:00Public Speaking and the BEF Junior Nationals<A href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IPMnYx6N-Xw/SmlKd95iA7I/AAAAAAAAAS8/o9Oilhwn1ZM/s1600-h/CIMG2033.JPG"><IMG id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361898710053815218 style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IPMnYx6N-Xw/SmlKd95iA7I/AAAAAAAAAS8/o9Oilhwn1ZM/s200/CIMG2033.JPG" border=0></A> As I said in a previous post, the BEF Junior National 9-ball tournament was being held in my hometown of Bloomington/Normal, IL. I got a chance to attend the banquet and give a speech. It was a packed house!<A href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IPMnYx6N-Xw/Sm5WHPITvRI/AAAAAAAAATU/ni9elmtfg-8/s1600-h/CIMG2044.JPG"><IMG id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363318888565292306 style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IPMnYx6N-Xw/Sm5WHPITvRI/AAAAAAAAATU/ni9elmtfg-8/s200/CIMG2044.JPG" border=0></A> The banquet was really awesome. I wish there would have been something like that when I was playing! There were prizes and different awards given out...most of them directed toward good students. Everything was fun, then it was time for the speech. I wrote my speech a couple days ago and practiced here and there. Once I got up there, I was so freaked out and nervous, I couldn't see the words on my notes! I had to wing it and my voice was super shaky...but hopefully I got my point across. First a picture, then the video of my speech at the bottom of the post.<A href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IPMnYx6N-Xw/SmlLuu8qVEI/AAAAAAAAATE/rHb_7DrSaAg/s1600-h/CIMG2038.JPG"><IMG id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361900097609815106 style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IPMnYx6N-Xw/SmlLuu8qVEI/AAAAAAAAATE/rHb_7DrSaAg/s200/CIMG2038.JPG" border=0></A> Are politics in my future?? I think not! After the banquet, Dr. Cue, Tom Rossman put on an exhibition. If you haven't seen his show before, it is definitely one of the best when it comes to trick shots. He put on a show for over an hour and could have kept going!<A href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IPMnYx6N-Xw/Sm5Vmq2-NQI/AAAAAAAAATM/XZ3y7WFHsxs/s1600-h/CIMG2048.JPG"><IMG id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363318329073087746 style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IPMnYx6N-Xw/Sm5Vmq2-NQI/AAAAAAAAATM/XZ3y7WFHsxs/s200/CIMG2048.JPG" border=0></A> To end the first night, Laura Smith, Dawn Hopkins, and myself did challenge games. I was determined to not quit until everyone had a chance to play.<A href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IPMnYx6N-Xw/Sm5YCp0uZeI/AAAAAAAAATk/vhQNHa6jkF4/s1600-h/CIMG2056.JPG"><IMG id=BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363321008854820322 style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 150px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IPMnYx6N-Xw/Sm5YCp0uZeI/AAAAAAAAATk/vhQNHa6jkF4/s200/CIMG2056.JPG" border=0></A> I went to watch as much as I could. Saturday night I got to do some more challenge matches and meet a lot of the players. Sunday, the finals were pretty exciting. Landon Shuffett moved up a division but still came out the winner. Brianna Miller defended her title as the 14 and under division. Liz Lovely won the 19 and under girls and Brendan Crockett won the 14 and under boys division. All of these kids are really amazing talents. We all have to watch out for them soon! I have to give a big thanks to all of the kids and parents. I had a great time and I got to go back to having a good feeling about pool. Everyone was so friendly and appreciative. Thank you for the opportunity to be around that! Here it is...in two parts, the speech. Part of it was cut out in order to take some pictures. The camera is a little shaky so you might want to close your eyes! My opening line was cut out. I said "I was really worried about what to wear tonight, but I guess I didn't need to worry since you can't even see me behind this podium!" Part 1 <object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-47e9deadbbad4613" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D47e9deadbbad4613%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%253Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1340426472%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3DDAED46DE77144ECCC538ED13E6C4E8D75EE6AF1.7E984FB4C35313917E17A944505A83E717D624CC%26key%3Dck1&iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D47e9deadbbad4613%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Dm2h-frWcZGYF2poID07OmmicpaA&autoplay=0&ps=blogger"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="flvurl=http://redirector.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D47e9deadbbad4613%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26cmo%3Dsensitive_content%253Dyes%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1340426472%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3DDAED46DE77144ECCC538ED13E6C4E8D75EE6AF1.7E984FB4C35313917E17A944505A83E717D624CC%26key%3Dck1&iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D47e9deadbbad4613%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3Dm2h-frWcZGYF2poID07OmmicpaA&autoplay=0&ps=blogger" allowFullScreen="true" /></object> Part 2 (on YouTube since blogger wouldn't let me load it) <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5PlTmoVEb_M&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5PlTmoVEb_M&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Thanks for watching! Next up is the WPBA US Open. The live stream sponsored by <a href="http://www.pooldawg.com">PoolDawg</a> isn't going to be running for this one but you can find the brackets on the <a href="http://www.wpba.com">WPBA website</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8053118123465587369-8439533445370605439?l=sarahrousey.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Sarah Rouseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10232607275843425293noreply@blogger.com4