Purdue wins College National Championships

After a series of hard fought points, the Purdue Boilermakers from Lafayette, Indiana emerged victorious against Ohio University Bobcats. The X-ball match was tied up at half time and the Boilermakers ultimately defeated the Bobcats 8-4. After being defeated 11-5 and sent home by Ohio during the 2008 Nationals, the Purdue Boilermakers had a sweet rematch. Be sure to tune into Fox College Sports when the official episodes are aired in June.

In 5-man, University of Wisconsin Whitewater Warhawks played a best out of 3 against Texas A&M Aggies Maroon. Whitewater smashed Texas A&M during the first match and the referees quickly turned the game around. During the second game, Texas A&M won after 2 of their snake players blasted out the Whitewater dorito player and hung the flag. The teams continued onto game 3 and played smart, methodical paintball. Whitewater was very assertive through the snake and managed to eliminate Texas A&M to take the National title.

Fox College Sports was on location at Central Florida Paintball filming the 2009 College National Championships. The NCPA, the promotional element of College Paintball, signed a multi-year contract with FCS to air paintball on TV and has done a great job promoting paintball as a mainstream sport to millions of viewers at home.

Special thanks to Eric Muto and Chris Higashi for their help in contributing to this report. Thanks to Joe & Rob and Chris Raehl from NCPA, and Marcus from the PSP for running a top notch event. Great job to all the college teams that competed.

This article was authored by Justin – who has written 876 paintball news and gear articles.

Justin was introduced to the game of paintball in ’96. Since then, he has been actively involved in promoting and playing in recreational and tournament paintball.