I was incredibly intimidated and stuck to my normal tendency of staying quiet. When I first started practicing with the B-Sides (the team I’m on now, similar to a JV level), I was the youngest on the team some girls had been skating for more than eight years, most had played together for several seasons, and all were bigger, better, faster, and stronger than I was. This stuff doesn’t come easily: unless you lived in one of the few cities with a junior league, derby is completely new and the challenges are never-ending.
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How did I manage to do a complete 180 in a year and a half? I slipped on a pair of skates, shared a track with women twice my size, and learned how to hit.Īt first, roller derby takes a lot out of you. I sit in the front row of my classes and only pause my participation to take a sip of my dark-roast coffee, taken black. I’m more outspoken and outgoing than before coming to Naz. Now, I’m a completely different person-well, except for the height. I sipped my medium-roast coffee with two sugars and two creams in the back of the class, hoping I wouldn’t get called on. I found speaking up almost painful, and as a result I largely kept to myself. When I first came to Naz, this took most by surprise due to my 5’4” frame and self-diagnosed introverted personality. Everything you need to know about me can be summed up by the sentence “I play roller derby.”
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