Gabrielle "Fonda Payne" Begeman #90
2010 Bad Apples Co-Captain
photo credit: Elevated Images Photography
DOLL SINCE//April 2008
TEAM(S)// Bad Apples // Mile High Club
PRIMARY POSITION//Pivot, Jammer, Blocker
BIO//Born, raised and thriving in the Mile High City, she was influenced by Doogie Howser to skip high school and go straight to the University of Denver to earn her B.S. in Environmental Science. She then opted for a blue-collar job driving big trucks, wearing shirts with her name on them and occasionally letting her plumbers-crack show, all for her love of saving the environment from the excrement of human kind and providing hundreds of thousands of people with eight glasses-a-day, showers and flush toilets.
When she is not knee deep in a sh** storm, she enjoys driving classic convertible cars, scavenging through piles of junk for treasure, pretending it’s Halloween, paddling boats down raging rivers, getting her fingernails dirty and doing the worm.
ATHLETIC BACKGROUND//Her competitive instinct awoke at age 5 when her father taunted, “Those four years olds are skiing faster and jumping higher!” From that day forward she was never outdone by a four year old. She continued to beat up on four-year olds during her 8+ years of competitive figure skating while placing in a number of competitions. Her derby career began early in 2008 when she traded her blades for wheels and developed a taste for legally hitting people.
Fonda can be found in almost anyplace without a roof and walls.
AWARDS RECEIVED//MVP- Bad Apples 2009
Top Jammer- Bad Apples 2009
Top Pivot- Mile High Club 2009
2009 WFTDA National Tournament MVP
