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paintballimpact.com / Paintball Players / Women In Paintball
Women In Paintball
Though a sport with people running and rolling around in the mud and shooting paintballs at each other would often be considered a male activity, there are many women in paintball today. Some times family and girlfriends come to the matches and get jealous of the guys having all the fun. Or maybe the daughters learned the game from their fathers right alongside their brothers. No matter what a woman's motivation is for playing the game of paintball, there is no doubt that they belong on the field and that they are a welcome additional to the sport.
There are women in paintball of all ages, daughters, mothers, and grandmothers. The women just like the men, find paintball as a great outlet for enjoying its competitive juices of big game action, or blowing off a little steam. Some well know women in paintball include Amy "The Girl" Chantry and Nancy Durham - Glynn, a member of the seven-woman, Tippman sponsored Paint Girls team. Where women in the game were previously used as sex objects in the cover of paintball magazines, women today are earning spots on male dominated pro-teams, and forming teams of their own.
The sport of paintball has produced many excellent and talented women players who have earned acclaim and sponsorship through achievements on the field. Included in this list of successful woman players are Clare Benavides and Bea Youngs. Both women are dominant in their field and have inspired other women to take up arms. Clare Benavides competes in tournaments with her team Empress. Team Empress competes in the PSP League as an all girls X Ball Team. Clare Benavides has drawn attention to herself in the paintball comm8unity and magazines due to her skill, athletic achievement, and good looks. Clare Benavides is very popular in the paintball community for bringing femininity and fierce competitiveness to her personal, as well as a lot of charisma.
Women today, more than any other time, are encouraged to participate in sports and are able to embody the dual role of tomboy on the field, and a beautiful feminine person off of it. Today, it is socially acceptable for a woman to go hiking and get dirty playing lacrosse, and get dressed up at the end of the day for a night on the town. Today, it is ok for woman to embrace the dual role of tomboy and sexy object of a man's affections. It does not have to be one way or the other anymore.
Before recent times, woman had one choice: to be passive and feminine or to be butch man hating amazons. But the popularity of athletes such as Anna Kournikova and Maria Sharapova have dispelled the rumor that you are either feminine, or are athletic and competitive. Women like Anna Kornikova are recognized in one magazine as among the best athletes in the world, and in another as among the most beautiful persons in the world.
"Paintball is a sport in which men and women compete as equals and many women are grateful to have this opportunity to dispel chauvinistic ideas of butches or soft femininity." Richard Cooke
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