Stevens scores big at Paintball Nationals in Orlando, Florida

HOBOKEN, N.J. — The 2004 edition of the National Collegiate Paintball Association (NCPA) was held on April 17, 2004, at Walt Disney’s Wild World of Sports, Orlando, Florida, with the team from Stevens Institute of Technology coming in with a ranking of ninth among the top 10 competing national teams. Stevens is also now ranked sixth in the 2003-2004 NCPA Series Rankings.

The NCPA is working toward bringing paintball out to major venues to increase public awareness of the sport.

The overall configuration of the event was changed as the new location switched the geographic balance of the teams. Although the number of teams was slightly higher than last year (43 teams in 2003 and 47 in 2004) several Midwest schools were unable to send their usual number of teams to Florida, while other schools jumped on the occasion to have the event on the East coast to travel.

Although a disappointing situation for those who could not afford the trip to Disney, the higher number of participating colleges, over the onslaught of teams from a limited number of schools, gave the event a true national flair. The Midwest, South and East coast were heavily represented.

The annual NCPA X-Ball event, which is held during the PSP World Cup, has contributed to spread the word about college paintball and might have inspired these players to join college ranks. The high-school Nationals were played at the same time at the same venue.

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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