Open (sport) performance standards or eligibility criteria may apply in other sports. Opens are usually found in golf, tennis, bowling, badminton, quizbowl, fighting games, snooker, darts, volleyball, ultimate, squash and chess. Open (sport) An Open in sports terminology refers to a sporting event or game tournament that is open to contestants regardless of their professional or amateur status, age, ability, gender, sex, or other categorization. In many sports, preliminary qualifying events, open to all entrants, are held to successively reduce the field to a manageable number for participation in a final championship event, which itself may involve elimination rounds (tournaments). The term
Heather Hennessy with Olympic skater Peggy Fleming, whom she met in Los Gatos when Hennessy was 16. In 2009, she married J.P. Howell, an American professional baseball pitcher who played for the Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and Toronto Blue Jays. The two met as freshmen at the University of Southern California. Together they founded the nonprofit Discover Your Path Foundation to help kids. Hennessy filed for divorce on August 8, 2016 citing irreconcilable differences. Heather Hennessy Heather Hennessy is a children’s book author, inspirational speaker, and former Fox Sports Broadcaster. She was an 800-meter national champion