Katie Edelbrock grew up playing paintball. On Saturday, Edelbrock got to pass that tradition on to her 15-year-old son Chris, playing alongside him in several games of paintball at the Payson Multi-Event Center.
From the lack of paint on her, Edelbrock knew what she was doing, especially since she was vastly outnumbered by pre-teen boys.
The town sponsored the paintball tournament, bringing in staff from the Denver-based American Paintball Coliseum (APC) Saturday. From 8 a.m. to roughly 1 p.m., participants ran around the forest north of the event center where APC had set up 10-plus obstacles, shooting green colored paintballs at each other during 15-minute rounds. When hit, it left participants with white paint splotches.