Roller Derby Girl

My friend Wendy is amazing. She decided, at the ripe ol' age of 42, to join the Detroit Derby Girls and become a jamming, blocking chick on skates.

She's a member of the Detroit Pistoffs. http://http://www.detroitderbygirls.com
Her Derby name is Lottie Guts. She rolls with teammates Cookie Rumble, Elle McFearsome and Maim West. The play on names is one of the most entertaining things about this league. (Well, that and the giant beers for sale at the bouts.)

She tried out for the Drew Barrymore Roller Derby movie. http://http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172233/She didn't end up in the movie (she would have had to take too much time off work) but Drew did ask her how she got her arms so buff.

Wendy is in the best shape of her life. But right before her big Derby debut, she went to public skate to practice some of her moves and fell and broke her leg. Bad. Surgery, pins, the works. That was November. January, she was back out there, no fear.

My Derby name would be Hell-No Kitty.

But don't hold your breath.

Roll, Wendy, Roll!