Have you been wanting to try roller derby, but don’t know how to go about it? Come to one our upcoming open houses and we can get you started! Feb 26th at 7P, Feb 28th at 8:30P and Mar 1st at 7P! Just try it! You’ll love it!

Come see new skaters from the tri-state area batttle it out! Kids 11 and under are free. Beer is available for 21+ with ID. General Admissions is $7, VIP is $12! VIP tickets include reserved seating and a goodie bag from our sponsers. Feel free to bring chairs or a blanket to sit on, and remember to bring cash or card for merch and food! Tickets available online at MissionTix.com

1. What is your day job?
i take care of 3 awesome kids, and work at Cherry Bomb Tattoo owned by my teammate kim d’kay. I do piercing and am working on a tattoo apprenticeship. I also run a small little business at dottedwithhearts.com where I make super awesome things, including resin bearing necklaces.

2. What is your dream job?
i’m still not sure yet. something where i’m happy and comfortable financially.

3. What jobs do you do within your league?
Right now i do pr/marketing, sponsorship and coaching committee.

4. If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?
panda bear. because they are cute and vicious.

5. Have you played any other sports? If so, which sports?
not since i was young

6. How long have you played derby?
i have been skating with MDRV since we began, in 2007.

7. What got you interested in roller derby?
because its awesome. it’s a great way to be active with a group of awesome people, be strong, play hard, and have fun.

8. What’s the origin of your name?
i’m a pretty horrible speller. and had “issues” in school with learning. spell check is my friend.

9. What is the origin of your number?
i tend to have pretty bad luck so it seemed fitting

10. What would you say is the hardest part of being on a roller derby team?
finding a good balance between derby and “real life”. I feel it is absolutely possible for derby to take over your life. derby in general can just be hard sometimes. hard on your body, your wallet and your soul. You have to always remember everyone is there for the same reason and try to stay motivated to push past the hard times.

11. What advice would you give to women who want to play roller derby?
To go and try it. But keep in mind, you will sweat, your muscles will ache, you might puke your first few practices. But you will know right away if you want to do it or not.

12. What is your (roller derby) position of choice?
I don’t have one position i like to stay in. In bouts I get put in any position and i absolutely love the fact that i can help my league in any position I go to. It’s always a different challenge as well, and keeps me on my toes.

13. What is your skate gear of choice?
I am short. like real short. I had almost my whole arm covered in saftey gear and then i found super awesome small elbow pads from ProDesign. they are soooo awesome. for the past 3 years i’ve skated on white 265′s and love love love them.

14. Do you have a pre-bout ritual?
generally a turkey sandwich or COUNTRY SCRAMBLE at #1111 Brooke’s house. Most of the time lots of water and some red bull. Talking with my team about how we are going to work together, and play well.

15. What are some of your best/favorite moments in roller derby?
There’s really too many to list, seriously. Although this was a terrible situation for me, when we had an away bout and i got elbowed hard in the face. I had to go to the hospital because the EMT’s thought my jaw was broken. My team didn’t go to the after party. They came to the hospital. All together.
Hanging around the rink after practice is always fun too. We can stand around, have snacks and talk and goof off for a good hour or two after practice.

16. Who are your roller derby heroes?
i love love love lil mama from Montreal. I admire the same “derby heroes” most skaters admire, but also admire anyone that pushes themselves to do one more lap, or sprint for 10 more seconds.

17. What goes through your brain as you lace up your skates?
“don’t fall on your face during your intro”

18. How would you describe your derby playing style?
well, my teammates have called me a Clydesdale because apparently i do weird, hopping gallops. As a blocker I love to sit on a jammer for as long as possible than risk missing a bigger hit. I probably am pretty annoying in that way. When I jam, my shortness can be awesome for getting under people.

19. What is your worst injury?
well there was the possible broken jaw, an almost broken collar bone, and various other bruises and what not. But right now I am sitting in a cast from my toes to my knee. Our last bout of the season, I apparently had a stress fracture that just completely cracked the whole way through over the course of the game. I almost made it through. I thought it was just some kind of cramp in the arch of my foot and went out to jam. Coming off the line I felt a weird hot “pop” and then all I could think was “getleadandcallitgetleadandcallit”. i didn’t get lead. but was out the rest of the bout.

20. What are some of your greatest roller derby accomplishments?
I think even just starting to play. I’m normally really shy around people I don’t know, and the first meeting we had, I knew absolutely NO ONE.
Any time I have gotten MVP after a bout is pretty great too. It makes you feel like you did your job, and really helped your team out that night.

21. Anyone you would like to give thanks to?
my team and my many many derby wives. my little rinkrat kids. and maybe if I thank my foot it will heal up quicker!

1. What is your day job?
Im a Stay at home Mother of 2.

2. What is your dream job?
To get payed for playing derby……

3. What jobs do you do within your league? I pretty much try to help out wherever needed.

4. If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?
A bird…perhaps a crow, Because I could just fly away…..

5. Have you played any other sports? If so, which sports?
I have never played another sport before, wasn’t interested until I saw the awsomeness of DERBY!

6. How long have you played derby?
I just put on a pair of skates for the first time ever in Dec of 2010.

7. What got you interested in roller derby?
Besides being on skates, I needed an Outlet for my troubled lil mind.

8. What’s the origin of your name?
Besides being a Stay at home mom, I am a Founder and a member of T.R.I.P.P. (Tri-State Paranormal Posse) a Paranormal investigator, and a Sensitive.

9. What is the origin of your number?
Thought it just went with the name…..

10. What would you say is the hardest part of being on a roller derby team?
It is VERY Time Consuming (But thats what I asked for)

11. What advice would you give to women who want to play roller derby?
This is not a chance just to be cool on the track with skates, This is A Team,A Game and We are and Strive to be Athletes! And this IS a CONTACT SPORT that requires as much endurance as football. Stay HYDRATED!

12. What is your (roller derby) position of choice?
Jammer

13. What is your skate gear of choice?
My skatez!

14. Do you have a pre-bout ritual?
EAT and rest my legs.

15. What are some of your best/favorite moments in roller derby?Since I came into the derby world it has all Been a great experience even the bad, there would be no good if there was no bad….I have made a whole new family.

16. Who are your roller derby heroes?
Every women that went to try out , made it, and sees themselves improving with every practice when they had doubts in there head.

17. What goes through your brain as you lace up your skates?
Whatever song I just jammed-out to in the car 5 minutes earlier.

18. How would you describe your derby playing style?
Quick & Squirrely…

19. What is your worst injury?
Nothing bad yet (knockz on wood)

20. What are some of your greatest roller derby accomplishments?
Just being able to do what I do on skates.

21. Anyone you would like to give thanks to?
My Derby Family and My kids for telling me to “Hit them hard” before every practice.