Paintball Magazine Paintball Media Magazine April 2019 | Page 98

SABERWOLVES CLASSIC ROSTER
Caleb Adcock, Jacob Adcock, Bill Aschbacher, Jason Baird, Aaron Boling, Jacob
Byrd, Eric Evans, Jason Fajardo, Matt Hull, Woody Maddox, Ana Owen, Justin
Owen, Jared Powell, Karl Poynter, Kyle Poynter, Aaron Rios
The Saberwolves are made up of lifelong
friends that grew up with and have known
each other from their collective history in
the Mid-South tournament scene from
the 1990’s and early 2000’s. They also went
on to play the NPPL, the IAO and other
events during their first decade as a team.
The Saberwolves are the only team to ever
win the International Amateur Open (IAO)
in the five-man and ten-man divisions in
the same year. In 2016 the team reunited
to play the ten-man Woodsball World
Cup. Although there was no dedicated
ten-man league at that time the team
committed to stay together and compete
together should any other similar events
arise.
The Saberwolves have won three ten-man
classic events since—the TexMech classic
event, Mid-Atlantic Classic and the NXL
Mounds fields. In fact they have made
the cut in every event they’ve entered.
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The team’s success has led to their being
invited to join the pro division of the
International Classic Paintball League
(ICPL). Team captain Justin Owen called
it “and honor to accept the invitation.”
The team’s roster is comprised of players
spanning seven states (Tennessee,
Georgia, Texas, Arizona, Indiana, Illinois,
and Louisiana) but that doesn’t keep
them from interacting daily. It does
however, prevent them from practicing
regularly. Owen continued, “Because
practicing is just a logistical impossibility,
we recognize and accept that we’ll never
be as good as we could otherwise be, but
we’re okay with that. We feel we can still
be competitive and win so long as we play
our game. We work hard to be as good
as we can be as individuals, and then rely
on our unity and chemistry (of which we
have oodles).”