Meet Our Staff

Ace

Year at GAC - 2nd

Hometown: Jonesboro, AR
School: Ole Miss
Hobbies: Running, Swimming, Camping & Reading
Looking forward to most: Meeting all of the new campers!
What cartoon character are you most like: Bugs Bunny

Alfalfa

Year at GAC - 2nd

Hometown: State College, PA
School: Penn State University
Hobbies: Horses!! Spending time with friends and family, breathing clean air, relaxing by lakes and rivers, playing with dogs, skiing, laughing, reading, and sleeping!
Looking forward to most: Being in the fresh mountain air, warm sunshine, the stars, friendship bracelets, Footloose, getting away from technology, making new friends and reuniting with old ones!
What cartoon character are you most like: Jesse from Toy Story!

Apollo

Year at GAC - 1st

Hometown: Fulton, Missouri
School: University of Missouri-Columbia
Hobbies: Rock Climbing, Slacklining, Laughing, Stargazing, Water Skiing, Traveling, Sandwich-ing
Looking forward to most: Meeting all the amazing people at GAC
What cartoon character are you most like: Twister Rodriguez from Rocket Power

Avalon

Year at GAC - 4th

Hometown: Tollhouse, CA
Hobbies: Spending time with my family, hiking, playing with my dogs, going to the beach, mountain biking, swimming
Looking forward to most: Campfires, singing, being the in Sierra National Forest, and the amazing GAC family!
What cartoon character are you most like: Kanga - the mother kangaroo from Winnie the Pooh

AZ

Year at GAC - 8th

Hometown: Sydney, Australia
School: Monash University
Hobbies: Surfing, Waterskiing, SCUBA, Traveling, Horse Riding, Reading Papaya's staff profile.
Looking forward to most: Getting up on the ropes course and ziplining!!!
What cartoon character are you most like: Mushu from Mulan

Bean

Year at GAC - 19th

Hometown: Clovis, CA
School: Purdue University
Hobbies: cooking, reading, biking, playing with my dog
Looking forward to most: campfires, ultimate free time, and FUN!
What cartoon character are you most like: Mrs. Potts

Belle

Year at GAC - 7th

Hometown: Aliso Viejo, CA
School: Ole Miss
Hobbies: Dancing, singing along to Adele and Justin Bieber, traveling, watching baseball, and baking
Looking forward to most: Sleeping under the stars, being outdoors, dances, soaking up the sun on Shaver, cabin campfires, meeting amazing campers and staff, and just being back up at GAC in general!
What cartoon character are you most like: of course, Belle :)

BOOM

Year at GAC - 1st

Hometown: Colorado Springs
School: Colorado State University
Hobbies: Anything outside, making things interesting.
Looking forward to most: Getting bronze, meeting new people, being a leader, making other people have as much fun as i will
What cartoon character are you most like: Patrick Star

Breezy

Year at GAC - 2nd

Hometown: Columbus, Ohio
Hobbies: Spending time with friends, snowboarding, basketball, mountain biking with Katniss :)
Looking forward to most: Bon fires, sleeping under the stars, being surrounded by amazing people every single day!
What cartoon character are you most like: Scooby Doo! I'm not sure why, but my college Anatomy teacher always called me Scooby for some reason!?!

Buddy

Year at GAC - 2nd

Hometown: Pasadena, CA
School: Princeton University
Hobbies: Skiing, being outside in the sun, doing the penguin dance, sailing, and playing water pol
Looking forward to most: Spending another summer on the lake with crazy counselors, making camp the most fun it can be for the campers, and getting a better tank top tan than Stretch
What cartoon character are you most like: Crush from Finding Nemo