Brady Gollan is a two-time Canadian Amateur Snooker Champion, a former under-21 Canadian Snooker Champion and a world-ranked professional snooker player.

As a youngster Gollan’s ambition was to be a professional ice hockey player but fate intervened. Ian Dawson, owner of Porcos Pool Room became tired of Gollan’s ever-presence at the pinball machine and threw him out. The next day Gollan went back to apologize and started playing pool. After being coached by Dawson and a friend, Gollan gave up his other ambitions to play snooker at the age of 16.

He continued to hone his craft, playing locally in Kelowna for a few years before beginning to travel around the country in search of opponents and experience; success was not far in the offing. He had his first national-level victory in 1983 when he was crowned Canadian Under-21 Snooker Champion defeating Toronto’s Chris Wood in the final.

Gollan continued to achieve significant success on west coast and provincial events and in 1988 he won his first of two Canadian Amateur Championships in Halifax, Nova Scotia defeating John Bear 7-3 in the final.

Brady Gollan twice represented Canada at the World Amateur Snooker Championships. In 1986 in New Zealand Gollan reached the quarterfinals. And Gollan reached the quarterfinals again at the World Amateur Snooker Championship in 1988 in Australia recording a championship-record break of 135.

Following his success at the amateur level, he chased his dream to play on the World Professional snooker stage and in 1989 he achieved his professional status with impressive victories over top English amateur Jon Birch and a decisive win over former U.K Open Champion Patsy Fagan 9-2; a victory that relegated Fagan to non-tournament status.

In the 1989/1990 season Gollan achieved three last-32 finishes: the 1989 Hong Kong Open, the 1989 Asian Open and the 1990 World Snooker Championship. His run to the last-16 at the 1989 UK Championship ended with a 9-5 loss to fellow Canadian Alain Robidoux.

The following year Gollan reached the last-32 at the 1990 Asian Open and 1991 British Open.

His most notable achievement on the professional circuit was finishing runner-up in the 1991 World Masters event, a doubles championship where he was partnered with fellow Canadian west-coaster and two-time Canadian Amateur Champion Jim Wych. They lost in the final 8-5 to Mike Hallett and seven-time World Champion Stephen Hendry.

His best individual performance on the professional tour came at the 1991 European Open where he defeated Mike Darrington, 1990 British Open Champion Bob Chaperon, James Wattana, Peter Francisco and former World Amateur Champion Doug Mountjoy to reach the semi-finals.

His highest Professional World Ranking was 35, achieved in the 1991/1992 season.

In 1994 Brady Gollan retired from professional snooker but continued to play competitively in Canada regaining the Canadian Amateur Championship for the second time in 2018, thirty years after he first won it. He also won back-to-back British Columbia Open Championships in 2019 and 2020. He was inducted into the Canadian Snooker Hall of Fame in 2022.