Monthly Archives: February 2013

New Girls on the Track

February 28th, 2013 (No Comments)

The Chicago Outfit has had the great honor of accepting a TON of new members for this up-coming season and we couldn’t be more excited to get to know them. You know the usual babes, but what do you know about #smashtag? Not nearly enough! She’s a bigger badass than you could possibly imagine and […]

The Mommy Track

February 25th, 2013 (1 Comment)

“Hi, mom, it’s me, Kevin. I just wanted to see how roller derby was, and did you do good, and see if everybody did the whip….” And so begins another voice mail from my six-year-old son, the older of my two boys, on a night when I’m at practice when he goes to bed. With help from […]

#smashtag

February 23rd, 2013 (No Comments)

New skater here-#smashtag. Engineer, nerd, bicyclist, and a new blogger for the Outfit. I just graduated from college and found myself with a void in my life. With no homework, classes to attend, or student org meetings, what was I supposed to do with my free time? Five months into my post-graduation life of 9-to-5, […]

“Z” as in Zee

February 23rd, 2013 (No Comments)

I’m Laurie/Killer Zee. I’m a recent addition to the Outfit and it’s awesome. I’m slowly starting to remember everyone’s names and faces as well as make new friends. Sometimes it’s hard for me to come out of my shell, so getting the chance to introduce myself seems like a good place to start. I’m not […]

Another Life

February 22nd, 2013 (1 Comment)

After practice on Sunday at Big Star, Nikita was joking with me about my “secret life” outside of roller derby. Sometimes it feels more like a past life. I started skating with Derby Lite in 2010 as a social outlet, not to mention a needed diversion from my art. For well over a decade I […]