The Ball in Mind Team is made up of players who share the same idea of billiards: you improve through work, not by chance.
World champions, established internationals, rising talents: they do not share the same background or the same discipline, but they all use our training tools day to day, tell us what works and what is missing, and wear our colours in competition, in France and abroad.
Our ambassadors
Christophe Lambert
Blackball & Snooker — World champion
A professional player, four-time world team champion and multiple French champion. More than thirty years at the very top, with his standards intact.
Marion Jude
Blackball & Heyball — World champion
World champion in singles and in the team event, she is now making her mark in heyball, breaking into the world top 25 in her very first season.
Paul Coldrick
BALL IN MIND CONSULTANT
Blackball & Snooker — World champion, national head coach
A multiple blackball world champion, in singles, in doubles and in the team event. A coach for more than thirty years and national head coach of the French snooker team.
Éric Vaquier
BALL IN MIND PATRON
Blackball & Snooker — Coach, mental preparation
Coach, coach educator and mental preparation specialist. World U18 team champions in 2016 and European U15 champions in 2019 as France team coach, former national snooker head coach.
Olivier Chauveau
BALL IN MIND PATRON
Blackball — France international
One of the very first to believe in the project. Bronze medallist with the France over-40s team at the 2023 European Championships, doubles semi-finalist at the 2022 World Championships.
Jimmy Carney
BALL IN MIND PATRON
Blackball & Snooker — World runner-up, coach
England international player, world singles runner-up in 2012. A pool and snooker coach: the All Stars exercise range draws on his methods.
Ophélie Laval
Blackball & Heyball — World champion
World team champion in Albi in 2022, where she potted the deciding black. An international in blackball and heyball, and a respected teacher.
Cédric Angelier
Blackball — France international
World U18 team champion and France international, now based in Morocco where he is helping the game grow. Ambitious without arrogance.
Calvin Créach
Blackball — France squad
World U15 team champion, twice French U18 runner-up, bronze medallist in the 2025 French Cup. Brittany’s next generation.