User:Jay Micale

Jay "Daytona" Micale Professional Pocket Billiards Player.

Jay "Daytona" Micale was born February 4th 1969 and grew up in his grandparents and fathers pool hall named Syracuse Billiards from the 60's through the late 70's playing Straight Pool or Straight Pool in rotation that his dad made him play over and over preaching "if you can clean up that huge mess in rotation, when you get to just 9 balls its a cakewalk".., by the time Jay was 13 he went to a local city wide tournament in N Syracuse NY at a night club and played in a tournament with adults and won the trophy behind his dad's back, and his dad was old school never entering a tournament, however playing for thousands of dollars a week Actually yelled at him never to enter one again!, lol, so Jay did this for many years but inside knowing that he was addicted to Cue Sports, Nowadays Jay is CSI sanctioned, UPA Touring Pro, and a BCA Affiliate Pro Player and ready to win.. Jay plans that 2019 is the year to clean house.. This competitivness is closely related to when Jay was younger and when he wasn't shooting pool all night, he was training for Speedskating "Inline & Roller" 8 hours a day 7 days a week during the daytime hours, winning over 70 medals and trophy's from Speedskating meets all over the United States, then going on to win the NYS Championship in his Freshman year, then even later going on to winning the United States Northeastern Regional Championships with 3 Golds, 2 Silvers and a Bronze in 1985, then making it to National finals the following year, this even let him attend the United States Olympic training center in Colorado Springs Colorado as a U.S. Team hopeful, .. After this type of painful and pressure filled competition for so many years, having to worry about a pool room or tournament audience is barely a distraction, When Jay passed his 30's where Speedskaters peak in there mid 20's, Jay went back to Billiards where you can shoot for most of your life.. Unfortunately Jay's dad Richy "the fly" Micale and Grandfather Sam "Buckshot" Micale had past away without being able to train Jay to the level he wanted to be, so being a smart good player out of any city he lived in, searched out help to get his game to a top level, and befriending the late Fast Larry Gunninger, and Larry being a great guy helped him with equipment and training advise and training methods from him, and also he never forgets to mention Wes and Jamie Bond of Lucasi for believing in him a few years back and providing him with some top notch equipment to shoot with then, he started shooting at a much higher level.. It still broke his heart that his Dad and Grandfather couldn't train him, they had played out of the same pool halls as Hall of Famer, Babe Cranfield in Syracuse NY his father beating Cranfield at a Syracuse pool hall back in the 60's for a hefty sum of money, so you can imagine Richy the Fly was one excellent but very strict teacher .. Jay's had quite a wildly filled 12 or so years in Daytona Beach Florida at Beachside Billiards, getting his feet wet as a tournament coordinator and shooting in many tournaments, also an exhibition match and lost against pro player Blair Thein 11 to 9 .. This woke Jay up and got under his skin, and within a couple of weeks he opened Daytona Jay's Pool School and Private Billiard and Card Club and started training 8 to 10 hours a day on the table as he did to become a national class speedskater, this work started to pay off.. A nascar driver manager was at a pool hall Jay was shooting at one night with a couple of nascar stars to shoot, and after watching Jay shoot for an hour or so, NASCAR contracted him to teach all the Daytona 500 Nascar stars to shoot for a Daytona 500 smokey bar room pool shark interview, No matter what, Jay still has time for his beloved Retired military K9 and to build engines and performance cars and motorcycles and even track race them.. at 50 years old, he's always pushing the boundries of what you can still be young at. 2019 Will be Jay's Year to take it to the top of all Play.. Lets see what happens..