Meet our team!
#23 - Roni Mercer
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Roni has been playing paintball recreationally for about 10 years. He began playing in the ESPL in 2013. One year later he started the Hustlers with the idea of creating a team comprised of numerous levels and different play styles of ballers whether you be woodsball to speedball , he wanted to build one big team to cover all aspects of the game. One of his most memorable moments was placing 1st and 3rd at ESPL 2016 event 1. His most memorable moment as coach was when the benevento brothers and Jake Mcafee placed 2nd overall in a 3 man tournament , and when the original YG squad went 1st at TKO 3 man 2014.
#14 - Eric Elver
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Eric has been playing paintball for the last 9 years, as well as played tournament paintball for the past 2 years. He started with the hustlers 2 years ago as this was his first team he had ever played on. Two of his fondest memories are being welcomed with open arms from the hustlers franchise. As well as being put in a 4 on 1 situation in ESPL against the hustler's first line, only to lose the point with 1 body.
#10 - Claudio Levesque
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Claudio has been playing paintball for about 5-6 years and has recently gotten into speedball within the last 2 years. Claudio as also recently joined the hustlers in 2016. His favorite memory is when he got his first 5 pack at OPL at the end of the 2016 season.
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#07 - Kyle Wheeler
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The man, The myth, the legend! Kyle joined the Hustlers two years ago on a brisk summers eve, it felt like just yesterday when he started playing paintball 15 years ago. Kyle's most memorable moment was when he started blasting a lane at home and someone run right thru it directly at him. Needless to say he demolished him, poor guy!. Kyle's favorite memories are the richest ones, it will always be the people he plays with and the laughs they share off and on the field. To Kyle, the paintball community is like one big family that he loves with all his heart.
#24 - Alen Brown
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Alen Started playing paintball back in 2004, He has been a member of the hustlers franchise since the end of 2015. Alen's Most memorable moment was of him bunkering the last guy in a 1 on 1 situation to put Defiance in the finals for NAX.
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#07 - TJ Vance
7 on the field and in the pants, Tj has been playing paintball since the age of 12 as well as played competitively for last 5 seasons. One of his most fondest memories were with the hustlers at flag raiders approximately 2 years ago. When they destroyed some double knee sliding goons as well as Kyle coming up clutch duel wielding 2 setups.
Ki Sysouvong
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Ki's first speedball gun was a DM4. There was a speedball tournament located at Skydome at one point in time if you remember. Ki has been a hustler since the beginning.
#88 - Brian Bates
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Brian joined the hustlers back in December of 2017, and has been playing paintball for the past 7 years. Brian's fondest memory of paintball was winning his first big game as a general at prz in 2015.
#07 - Zay Hatchett
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Zay joined the hustlers towards the end of 2017 season, He has been playing paintball for the past 2 years. Zay's fondest memory of paintball was at OPL's event 5 in 2017. Zay and another player launched themselves to the other teams snake 3 off break, and they shot all 5 of the other team's players before his back players drew 2 majors. The point only lasted 30 seconds and no points were awarded. The refs had no idea as to what transpired and they were in complete awe!
#50 - Brock Benevento
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Brock Has been playing paintball for the past 8 years. He joined the hustlers 2 years ago. Brock's fondest memory of paintball is placing second at a 3 man tournament with his brother Cole by his side!
#66 - Cole Benevento
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Cole started playing paintball when he was 9 years old, He joined the hustlers about a year ago. The most memorable moment as a hustler for him is playing every tournament with his brother Brock as well as playing paintball with the rest of the hustlers crew.
#64 - Matt Proctor
Matt started playing in 2004 up until 2009. He then took some time off from the sport until 2013. Matt is one of the original members of the hustlers. He has played in every division from Cx4 right up to MXL/D3. Matt's most memorable moment was when he was playing snake at practice for Rage and killing it.
#09 - Josh McCulligh
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Josh joined the hustlers last season in 2017, and has been playing paintball for about 6-7 years now. Josh's fondest memory was when he won his first paintball tournament with his best friends. To which they made up their own team called "London Vanquish" back in 2014 at ESPL event 3.
