Stacy Bromberg | |
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Personal information | |
Nickname | The Wish Granter |
Born |
Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
July 27, 1956
Died | February 12, 2017 Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. |
(aged 60)
Home town | Las Vegas, Nevada United States |
Darts information | |
Darts | 26g LaserDarts |
Laterality | Right-handed |
Walk-on music | American Girl by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers |
Organisation (see split in darts) | |
BDO | 1995–2006 |
PDC | 2007–2012 |
BDO majors - best performances | |
World Ch'ship | Quarter Final: 2002 |
World Masters | Runner Up: 1995 |
PDC premier events - best performances | |
World Ch'ship | (Women's) Winner 2010 |
Grand Slam | Group Stage: 2010 |
Desert Classic | (Women's) Winner 2003 |
Stacy Bromberg (July 27, 1956 – February 12, 2017) was an American darts player who was a PDC Women's World Darts Champion. Bromberg was born in Los Angeles, California, and dominated the American darts circuit in the last decade through winning the US women's championship on 11 occasions.
Bromberg won the North American Open in 1995 and reached the final of the 1995 Women's World Masters, losing to England's Sharon Colclough. In 2002, she qualified for the BDO Women's World Darts Championship but lost two sets to nil to Francis Hoenselaar of the Netherlands. She then won the 2003 Women's Las Vegas Desert Classic in her hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada, defeating Deta Hedman six legs to four in the final. She then reached the final in 2004 but lost to Trina Gulliver 6-5.
2009 was a banner year with Stacy winning the WDF World Cup Women's Singles Championship in Charlotte, NC (USA) with steel tip darts and the Shanghai Women's Singles Champion with soft tip darts. She became the first ever PDC Women's World Champion, after defeating Tricia Wright 6-5 in the final. She had earlier defeated Russian former world ladies champion Anastasia Dobromyslova in the semi-finals.
As a result of winning the PDC Women's World Championship, Bromberg qualified for the 2010 Grand Slam of Darts, where she lost all three group games to Mervyn King, John Henderson, and Terry Jenkins