Quiet Is The New Loud
The Quiet Season Doesn’ t Have to be Quiet
The paintball calendar was particularly quiet at the start of 2026. Chinese New Year and Hari Raya Puasa fell across February and March- festivals that brought much of Southeast Asia to a joyful pause, and the tournament scene along with it. So I sent a message to a small group of women paintball players:“ come do HYROX with me.” Women’ s Relay. 3 April. Singapore National Stadium. The idea was simple- when the calendar goes quiet, find another way to keep the bonds alive. A shared goal. A shared challenge. What the fitness world cheerfully calls shared suffering. The HYROX schedule happened to align with everyone’ s availability, and nobody was dragged in. They had to want it.
Four said yes.
On 3 April 2026, four women walked into the Singapore National Stadium- the same arena that has hosted Taylor Swift and Coldplay- and lined up not for a concert, but for HYROX Women’ s Relay. Two from Singapore, two from the Philippines.
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The Quiet Season Doesn’ t have to be Quiet
They were not career fitness athletes. They were paintballers. And as I wrote on Instagram that night, it was the first paintball women’ s team relay at HYROX Singapore.“ Maybe it won’ t be the last.”
Meet the Team: From the Bunkers to the Track
The four women who formed this relay team carry very different paintball stories but share one defining quality- they have spent years being among the few women willing to show up, suited up, and competing in a sport where female faces remain far too rare across Asia.
Kathy Lynn Clair(@ kclair1038), known as KC, has the paintball bloodline. She first picked up a paintball marker in 2008 alongside her father and sister in the Philippines. After a long break, she returned to competitive play in 2021 and stepped onto the tournament stage in June 2023 at the AGPIC * event in Singapore. Three words she uses to describe herself:“ Driven. Growing. Brave.” KC is also, quietly, the woman who started it all for another member of this team.