Canada’s first professional women’s paintball team has been formed and is about to compete across the border.
With less than a month before Team Canada makes its National Xball League debut, the Northern Lights have some big plans to try and become one of North America’s best teams.
“Two years ago, they started a women’s league down in the States, and then we were asked to start the first all-female Canadian women’s team,” said Northern Lights captain and co-owner Erin Scott.
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They’ve traveled from coast to coast recruiting talent for their eight-man roster.
“We have a mother of Nova Scotia. She flew all the way Nova Scotia try it out,” said Scott.
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“We have another girl from Ottawa who has been playing for as long as I have.”
With dozens of men’s and women’s professional teams across the US and Europe, the competition can get intense, especially when prize money is at stake.
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“They’re getting shot at about 300[times]a minute, so you’re definitely going to get some bruises, maybe some bloody lips,” Scott said.
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Everyone on the team had the same start at paintball, blasting through the woods at a birthday party or other event.
Now the group is ready to show Americans that the Northern Lights will be a new force to contend with for years to come.
“It looks like their team is going to be pretty solid. It’s exciting, the whole community is excited,” said Scott.
“The fact that we’re going down there as a women’s team, playing against women’s teams, is something very exciting for us.”
She says the long-term goal is to have a camp on each coast to train together so they have two solid lines when they go to competitions.
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