Aliases: Little s*** (by my mom), Dilon (from Chappell’s Show).
Position(s): Saber
Special Skills: Looking around at the other team and not shooting because my gun can’t reach, slipping on frozen ponds, getting stuck in trenches at HIVI, running out of air, fogging up 3 different anti-fog masks in one game and having my friends on the field turn to tell me something and I’m not there. . .
Marker/Equipment Setup: Tippmann A-5, 32 degrees barrel, 20 oz. tank (soon to have Apex barrel with Nitrous remote line or 16” barrel with M1 Garand Kit and Nitrous remote line).
Occupation: College Student, Waiter at an old folk’s home, Assistant Scoutmaster - Troop 272.
Infirmity: 3 Concussions and a fit of several Charlie horses during the ’07 Cousin’s Big Game.
Favorite quote: “Your Best? Losers always talk about doing their best. Winners go home and F#&@ the Prom Queen.”- Sean Connery, The Rock.
Your most-uttered quote in paintball: “I can’t see!! Are they on our team?”
Playing Since: 2003
Best Paintball Moment: “At the Cousin’s ’06 Big Game the Red team was attacking a hill (The Ammo Dump) and was pinned. The whole team was trying to get up one open side of the hill and was getting torn to ribbons. I said screw this and flanked to the left side, took out a blue player or two to my left on the way up and dove in front of a bunker; 4 or 5 blue players were on the other side of it firing at red players I was just with. I looked at the ref who knew what I was about to do, he nodded with approval and somehow I got the feeling he was smiling. I sprang up and surrendered the whole lot. HAH! The look on their faces! They all ran and I chased three more blue players out of the area after waving the rest of the team to advance to the top and change the flag. Then outside the ammo dump I dove behind a bunker because of course my mask got fogged up. My friend Terry had to suppress several blue players so I could get out of there and get cleaned up.”
Worst Paintball Moment: “I’m standing in a trench at ’08 Frostfire looking over the top and I see a blue player in the trench to my left walking towards me, looking down. I think to myself, he must be out or he wouldn’t have made it across No Man’s Land. So I decide against shooting him in the face. He walks up to me and says, “Alright you’re out, you’re out, you’re out and you’re out,” because there were three kids next to me. I felt so violated, then his stupid friend who’s already out, shouting profanities at the red team from the side lines, say’s, ‘Hahaha F&#@ing noobs!’ I’ve been tagged out that way once or twice before and I’ve done it to other people a couple of times but I never saw it coming. It’s the fact that I ignored the signs (his gun was down w/ no barrel plug in or white towel). That made me feel like crap, because I could have avoided it. That was the only moment I ever hated paintball.”
History: My good friend Terry got me started in this whole business back in 2003 and I’ve been hooked ever since.
Scenario Deployments:
West Point Combat Classic (West Point, 4/12-4/13/08)
Cousin's Big Game (Cousin's Coram Outdoor, 5/18/08)
NJ Nam (USANA New Jersey, 6/7-8/08)
Liberty Big Game (Liberty Paintball, 7/27/08)
Liberty Big Game (Liberty Paintball, 11/29/09)
Cousin's Big Game (Cousin's Coram Outdoor, 5/15-16/10)
