She was runner-up in the 1984 Professional World Women's Snooker Championship and has won numerous pool tournaments in Canada.

[1] She later drove daily to a pool hall in nearby Kitchener, where she played snooker, practicing for as much as eight hours a day.

[2][3] She was the runner-up in the 1984 National Express Grand Prix ladies snooker series,[4] and spent the summer of 1985 living in Saudi Arabia.

[6][7] In 1992, she beat Sherri Richardson 4–2 in the semi-final, and Rhondda Jackman in the final to win the Canadian Women's Championship, retaining the title that she had won at the previous staging in 1983.

[8] McConnell has a degree in fine art[1] and runs a pool hall, Alberni Valley Billiards.