Paintballers 4 Autism 1st team

Paintballers 4 Autism 1st team

Monday, July 18, 2011

About Paintballers 4 Autism

Paintballer’s 4 Autism is dedicated to people who are inflicted with any of the diseases on the Autism Spectrum. Our goal is to raise money to assist organization and families pay for different services they provide or may need. We also want to provide a place where children and adults that suffer from an Autism Spectrum disease may have the opportunity to play Paintball. 

Paintballer’s 4 Autism was created in March 2010 by Richard Greenaway and Michael Sokol whose sons both suffer from Autism Spectrum Diseases, and are also Paintball Players

Richard “Rick” Greenaway started paintball in 2008 just playing recreational, then in 2009 Rick went to his first organized paintball event at AirSports Paintball in Ludlow. The Hint for Lost Vegas is where the paintball bug hit Rick hard. From there he continued to play more organized paintball. In January 2010 Rick tried out for Identity Paintball, where he was selected for there 5man team that played in the NEPL. After the third event he went on to play for Identity but for one of the 7Man teams in the NEPL/MLP for the last two events. For the 2011 season Rick will be playing with Boston Menace.

Rick Greenaway is married to his wife Jessica and the have a son Dylan who was diagnosed on the Autism Spectrum in 2009. With that Rick decided he wanted to do something to help, so in August he attended the Hunt for Lost Vegas, That is where he met Michael Sokol. As the year went on Rick was thinking of ways to do more and help, that is where he had the Idea of Paintballers 4 Autism. He went to Mike to see if he was interested, and from there Paintballers 4 Autism PB4A was born. 

PB4A would like to continue to bring quality goods into the market, along with providing two quality tournaments a year and also field a team in various events in local events in 2011

We hosted our 1st tournament in January 2011. We had 17 teams of all different levels. We hope to continue to bring a top ran 3 man tournament in the Northeast for 2012. We are currently looking for a location to hold our event for 2012. We hope to have more teams and hold two different divisions.

This fall PB4A Factory Team made there first event appearance at the Poor Mans World Cup in Syracuse, NY. We hope to continue this program to help get the word out about Paintballers 4 Autism and Autism awareness.

Paintballers 4 Autism would be no where with out the support of there great sponsors, Planet Eclipse, Furious Barrels, Forgotten Muse Media, Paintball X3, Paintballer187.com  Kohn Sports, AirSports Paintball, Cron Paintball and Players Choice Production

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