BY ALEX TIGANI
The Muswellbrook Workers Snooker and Billiards Club has been dealt two cruel blows in 2020.
Like all other sporting organisations across the region the club, which is made up of 57 members, had to postpone its competitions earlier this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Even as social distancing restrictions have continued to ease, players still must remain seated in games while awaiting their next move in each game.
To add to the cruelty of 2020, the club has also recently mourned one of its long serving members Ray Meekin, who passed away in September.
Now the club’s president Sharon Chapman is doing everything possible to return the club to its glory.
“We are trying to get everything organised because covid-19 has restricted us a lot and we were supposed to be in Dubbo right now but that wasn’t to be,” she told The Hunter River Times.
“We are trying to get our competition games going as well so we are lucky that we can play them at this stage.”
The club is now looking to attract more members to join the club’s social competitions on held on Friday nights at the Muswellbrook Workers Club.
“It is a bit of fun; initially I came and looked at it and thought that isn’t me,” Chapman revealed
“But as time went on, I couldn’t resist coming every Friday night.”
Chapman would go on to claim the club person of the year award for three consecutive years before she was elected as the club’s first female president in 2018.
“Moving forward, we are trying to get younger players to come,” she concluded.
“We run a 10-minute snooker comp on Friday nights and its only a $5 buy in.
“Whoever wins takes some of it and the second place gets a bit as well.”
