SCOTT LEE WINS PBIA JERRY BRIESATH INSTRUCTOR OF THE YEAR AWARD By Keith Loria Scott Lee has been selected as the winner of this year’s PBIA Jerry Briesath Instructor of the Year Award. “Being chosen for this award is an immense honor,” Lee says. “I have always tried to demonstrate and represent professional skills (on and off the pool table), dress, attitude, and communication, to position our profession as worthy of notice, as much as the professional tournament players.” 52 | BCA INSIDER • EXPO 2019
“He’s probably within the top three instructors in the country and works with more students and instructors annually than anyone other than myself,” says Randy Goettlicher, former PBIA instructor committee chair and the winner of the award last year. “His program is excellent and the way he delivers it is second to none. He deserves this not just on his name, but his work record.” Even though Lee was Goettlicher’s student for 30 years, the mentor still gets
jealous listening to him at times, because of his complete dedication to the game. “He was an entertainer on the comedy circuit for years and would go to college campuses and spend 3-4 days entertaining the students and showing the pool fanatics more information and instruction, and that’s how I first ran across him,” Goettlicher says. “This is going back a long time, but he was one of the original APA league operators and his background is billiards.”
