Paintball Magazine Paintball Media Magazine April 2019 | Page 100

IRONMEN CLASSIC ROSTER
Dirk Gadberry, Michael Baird, James Canavero, Rick Cendejas, Bryon Benini, Dave
Weez Cook, Pat Rader, Sean Lane, Darryl Trent Youth: Dylan Gadberry, Brandon
Baird, Garrett Canavero, Lawson Youmans, Cade Cook
The Ironmen are one of the most storied place. We’ll be playing the 2019 Surf City
franchises in paintball history. There have Classic this April followed by the ICPL
been many incarnations of the team—the Chicago and Orlando events.”
original Ironmen, the SC Ironmen, Bob
Long’s Ironmen and the LA Ironmen. All
have had their share of successes but
that original Ironmen team was among
the best handful of professional paintball
teams ever. From 1991 to the start of the
NPPL in 1993 the Ironmen won nine major
events. And for the next four years they
dominated the NPPL, winning the title
each of the first three years of the league’s
existence.
This current classic version of the Ironmen
has a handful of the early team’s roster
including Dirk Gadberry, Michael Baird,
James Canavero, Rick Cendejas, Bryon
Benini and Darryl Trent. From team captain
Dirk Gadberry, “We decided to resurrect
the old patch in 2018 to compete in the
Bay Cities Classic. We finished in fourth
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