The Hunter Classics Amateur Women's Tour was formed by Cuemaker Wes Hunter and Susan Dasher in January, 1993. It is the largest women's regional tour in America and it consists of a series of stops throughout the southwest. Wes Hunter provides a $1,600.00 custom cuestick for the host site to raffle which is Fed-Ex’ed by Susan Dasher's law office to the host site 5-6 weeks in advance of the event.

Because of her love for pool and desire to having a forum in which women of all skill levels could compete Susan Dasher was the driving force behind the Hunter Tour and did all of the work through 1997. In 1998 she asked for help and several long-time members volunteered. The Tour has grown and is still evolving, so if you notice a void, please be sure to let one of us know and most likely you will be put in charge of filling it (that's how we got the web pages). All of the members that have agreed to help have made an impact on the Hunter Tour and are helping take it into the 21st century. 

Starting in 1998...the women behind the Hunter Tour:

Dora Valdez -- Tour coordinator. She sets up the year's calendar, calls host sites for commitments on tournaments and dates, obtains information about local hotels and the equipment available at the host site, designs the annual flyer format and updates it for each event, and mails flyers to host site.

Susan Dasher -- Tournament director. She maintains the Hunter Tour mailing list and sends the updates to the Women's Professional Billiard Association, she also pays all expenses including the tour's regional membership fee to the WPBA, shipping expenses, copy paper, envelopes and stamps for mailing, and copy supplies.

Shelly Barnes -- Tour Reporter. She writes the article containing the results of each event and information about the next event and sends it to the American Cueist and Billiard News for publication.

Shayla Neris -- Webmistress, Hunter Tour web page. She and Melinda Bailey maintain the Tour's web site, update it with current Tour and player information, photos and links to other pool sites of interest to Tour members, hand out fan mail and send back replies.

Melinda Bailey - Webmistress, Hunter Tour web page. See description above. She also distributes the newsletters which means she's the one who collates, folds, stuffs and seals envelopes, sticks labels and stamps on them and mails them.

Kathy Cobb -- Webmistress, Hunter Tour link site. The original web site. She takes photos, obtains names of photographed players, interviews players, adds current information to the Hunter Tour web link and maintains links to other pool sites of interest to Tour members.

Melinda, Shayla and Kathy all interview participants, take photos and videos of the tournament and coordinate with Dora and Susan for updates to the Hunter Tour web pages.