How long have you been playing paintball?
I have been playing paintball since 2005, so
that’s 8 years! How crazy is that… feels like I
started yesterday!
How did you get started?
I started playing paintball when the team
formed back in 2005. My brother who plays for
an SPL team called Drammen Solid tried to talk
me into trying for years before that, but I was
busy playing football and didn’t really have
time to think about anything else. However,
after we helped at the Norwegian Masters I
fell in love with the game and haven’t really
been able to think about anything else but
paintball since that.
Can you give us the names of the players on
your roster? And who is working behind the
scene?
The team’s roster currently consists of 6 girls,
Silje Eriksen, Pia A. Askevold, Linn A. Askevold,
Cecilia Rickardsson, Linda M. Graue and I.
We don’t really have a lot of people working
behind the scene. We own and run the team
ourselves, and have been doing so for the last
8 years.
However, we do have some amazing people
helping us get better and pointing us in the
right direction. Drammen Solid have been
pushing us at practice and supporting us ever
since the team formed.
During the 2013 season we have some
people who has helped us out, and deserves
a big thanks you; Stian Olaussen and Fredrik
Gulbrandsen from Drammen Solid have been
our trainers in the 2013 season, they have
really pushed us into becoming better players.
Magued Idris, former coach of Joy Division,
have been our coach this year and changed
our whole way of thinking about paintball.
Knut Andre Olstad has taken the time out of
his busy schedule at the millennium events to
help us out with coaching in the pit throughout
the year.
How is Poison Ivy structured? Anything unique about your team?
How we are structured? As any other team I guess, we all how our different roles.
I think the unique thing about Poison Ivy is that we are more than just a team; we are also a group
of very good friends. Pia, Linn, Silje and myself went to high school together and have been best
friends since then, so whoever joins the team is not only considered another team member, but
a new friend. I guess there is pros and cons about being an all-female team and a definitive pro
is the way we are able to talk about issues that arise.
In addition, being an all-female tem in itself is something unique as %95 male players dominate
the sport we play.