Randy Goettlicher
is one of the original four Master Instructors honored by the
Billiard Congress of America. These four founding fathers (Jerry
Briesath, Richard Roher, Leslie Rodgers) became the building blocks
for our present Instructors program.
He is a tireless promoter in our sport of pool.
The Southwest Eightball League, which was started
by Randy in 1983, was always one of the largest BCA Sanctioned
leagues in the world.
SWEL dominated for
25 years. He was
also a VNEA League Operator for many years and was the first APA
League Operator in Texas.
Randy served a three year term on the BCA Board of
Directors. During this appointment he was the chairperson of the
League & Program Committee working directly with John Lewis.
During Randy’s tenure the BCA Leagues system grew 125% in
membership.
Randy also held a position on the BCA Rules
Committee over a span of 30 years.
He served with many of our game’s pioneers, Willie Mosconi,
Jimmy Caras, Jerry Briesath, Belinda Beardon to name a few.
In addition to teaching at Cue-Tech and running a
great league system in the South West, Randy was one of the three
founders of the Texas Express Promotions Group.
Along with John McChesney and Robin Adair the Texas Express
Rules were born and the first National 9-Ball Tour was under way.
Randy traveled the country for 10 years running as many as 25
tournaments per year.
Along with his wife Karen, Randy developed the
Scotch-Doubles team play format that is now popular World-Wide.
Randy & Karen were honored as the first SD Tournament
Directors for the inaugural event at the BCA Nationals.
A founding member of the Cue-Tech Pool School Team
(1982-2009) and Grandfather of the “SPF” Family.
Cue-Tech's marketing and business operations became industry
standards under Randy's expertise.
Randy taught his 1st student
in 1965. To this date
Pool School still annually graduates 100’s of students and
Certifies dozens of
Instructors. Randy
continues as a Leader in the BCA Instructor Program.