The Windy City Rollers » Media http://www.windycityrollers.com Women's Flat Track Competitive Roller Derby in Chicago, Illinois Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:30:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 WCR in the Media: Roller Derby Warriors http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcr-in-the-media-roller-derby-warriors/ http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcr-in-the-media-roller-derby-warriors/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:00:22 +0000 Babe Froman http://www.windycityrollers.com/?p=2456 This week the Windy City Rollers showed the Chicago Sun-Times how dangerous it is to get in Varla Vendetta's way and celebrated the release of the new roller derby video game with Postcrescent.com.

Chicago Sun-Times

You Don't Want to Get in Varla Vendetta's Way

Do not underestimate little Jamie Ramsay. Get in her way and this pixie -- just 5-feet-2- inches tall with long dirty-blonde hair and the Hindu goddess of war tattooed down her arm -- will probably kick your butt.

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Postcresent.com

Fox City Foxz featured in 'Jam City Rollergirls' for Nintendo Wii

This Saturday marks the first regional promo/release of “Jam City Rollergirls” at the Fox Cityz Foxz’ Clone Warz event. The event at Players Choice in Appleton will feature two bouts between four mixed teams that include members of the Foxz, Mississippi Valley Mayhem (La Crosse), Windy City Rollers (Chicago), Brewcity Bruisers (Milwaukee), Rockford Rage (Rockford, Ill.) and the Mad Rollin’ Dolls (Madison).

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The course consisted of a 1.5K swim in Lake Michigan, a 40K bike ride on Lake Shore Drive, and a 10K run along the lake front and around the museum campus. Decked out in Windy City Rollers tanks and gear, the team received kudos and cheers from WCR fans in the crowd and proved that derby skaters are some of the best athletes around.

]]> http://www.windycityrollers.com/the-windy-city-rollers-take-on-the-worlds-largest-triathlon/feed/ 3 WCR in the Media: Out to Win it All http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcr-in-the-media-out-to-win-it-all/ http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcr-in-the-media-out-to-win-it-all/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:33 +0000 Babe Froman http://www.windycityrollers.com/?p=2447 This week The Windy City Rollers shared their hopes for the National Championship with Medill Reports, were highlighted as one of the top things to do in Chicago by Time Out Chicago, and were captured by Chicago Now in a tough game against the RMRG 5280 Fight Club.

Medill Reports

Windy City Rolling to Victory

This ain't your mama's roller derby.  The Windy City Rollers are out to win it all.  Players spill on how the sport evolved from a backroom hobby and what bringing home the national championship would mean for their team.

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Time Out Chicago

Five Things to Do Today: August 21

The Second Wind and the Windy City Rollers All-Stars skaters have been selected from the four home teams to compete during travel season. Squads are a little different. Butt-kicking remains the same.

Chicago Now

In the second match of the night, the Windy City Rollers All Stars took on the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls 5280 Fight Club.  It was an incredibly physical match but it was never close with the Roller Girls dishing out a 151-56 defeat.
]]> http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcr-in-the-media-out-to-win-it-all/feed/ 0 WCR's All-Stars Unable to Fend Off RMRG's 5280 Fight Club http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcrs-all-stars-unable-to-fend-off-rmrgs-5280-fight-club-in-151-56-loss/ http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcrs-all-stars-unable-to-fend-off-rmrgs-5280-fight-club-in-151-56-loss/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:20:01 +0000 Poppy Spock http://www.windycityrollers.com/?p=2433 The Windy City Rollers’ All-Stars were served a brutal 151-56 loss at the hands of the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls’ 5280 Fight Club at the UIC Pavilion. Ranked #10 in DNN’s power rankings and #1 in WFTDA’s North Central Division, the WCR All-Stars faced aggressive, athletic jamming and blocking from the #3 power-ranked Fight Club who are second only to Oly in the West. Fight Club jumped to an early, substantial lead with DeRanged’s fifteen-point first jam. Athena DeCrime put three points on the board for the All-Stars in the fifth jam, but Fight Club blockers effectively recycled WCR jammers to keep the All-Stars to single digits for the first eighteen minutes of play. DeRanged and She Who Cannot Be Named played both aggressive defense and offense from the jammer line, relentlessly widening the gap and leaving the floor with a 77-22 halftime score.

The second half saw Fight Club jammers DeRanged, She Who Cannot Be Named, Urrk’n Jerk’n, and Frida Beater taking lead jammer status and aggressive defensive action against WCR jammers. Fight Club blockers controlled the pack with hard hits and an intermittently successful slow game strategy. Despite facing a nearly standstill pack that drew scattered boos from the crowd, Athena DeCrime took lead jam and scored ten for the All-Stars in the eighth jam. Back-to-back trips to the penalty box for Varla Vendetta and Ruth Enasia, however, gave RMRG power jam opportunities that threatened to widen the lead to the century mark. With less than six minutes left in the bout, the All-Stars fought point by point to save themselves from that fate but suffered their second loss at home with a final 151-56 score.

]]> http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcrs-all-stars-unable-to-fend-off-rmrgs-5280-fight-club-in-151-56-loss/feed/ 2 WCR's Second Wind Trades Blows with RMRG's The Contenders http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcrs-second-wind-trades-blows-with-rmrgs-the-contenders-for-a-rmrg-victory-124-130/ http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcrs-second-wind-trades-blows-with-rmrgs-the-contenders-for-a-rmrg-victory-124-130/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:00:36 +0000 Poppy Spock http://www.windycityrollers.com/?p=2426 The Windy City Rollers’ Second Wind traded blows with the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls’ The Contenders in a seesaw bout that saw Second Wind ultimately felled by The Contenders 130-124. Making her travel season debut, Kola Loka drew first blood for Second Wind with three easy points in the first jam. But The Contenders’ Ho J answered with four in the second, followed by a 15-point jam by Uber Alice and an early lead for by the Rocky Mountain B team. Excellent blocking teamwork a few jams later by Carnage Wilson, Mya Ssault, and Tamikaze held back Uber Alice, allowing Kola Loka to score 15 and recapture the lead. With just under nine minutes remaining in the half, Mo Vengeance was sent to the penalty box wearing the star and May Q Pay cleared an inside lane for Little who brought her team back within two points. Despite increasing penalty trouble, Second Wind held the lead until the final jam of the half which saw Rose Feratu trying to fight her way out of the pack as Uber Alice racked up fifteen points and a 73-63 halftime score in favor of The Contenders.

Second Wind started the second half with Rose Feratu in the penalty box and a power jam for the speedy Uber Alice, who added another nine points to her team’s lead. AliSin Chains, Norma Lee Wright, and Bork Bork Bork teamed up to support Kola Loka for a 14 point jam with 23 minutes remaining. Much of the rest of the second half showed a jam-by-jam battle with blockers on both teams keeping jammers to single digits, with Second Wind steadily gaining ground. Breakout jams by Zoe Trocious brought Second Wind within five points with just under eight minutes remaining. But a double penalty for Kola Loka for an illegal procedure and insubordination left Second Wind jammerless for nearly two minutes, allowing The Contenders to pull away in the final minutes for the final 130-124 score.

]]> http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcrs-second-wind-trades-blows-with-rmrgs-the-contenders-for-a-rmrg-victory-124-130/feed/ 1 WCR in the Media: Not a Casual Sport http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcr-in-the-media-not-a-casual-sport/ http://www.windycityrollers.com/wcr-in-the-media-not-a-casual-sport/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:30:40 +0000 Babe Froman http://www.windycityrollers.com/?p=2411 This week, The Windy City Rollers celebrated roller derby's 75th anniversary with Gapers Block and grabbed the attention of Venus Zine in Down and Derby, a new roller derby book!

Gapers Block

Roller Derby Turns 75!

Fun fact: The first-ever roller derby game was played here at the Chicago Coliseum in August 13th, 1935. This Friday join the Windy City Rollers as they host the sport's 75th anniversary at Shambles (2050 W. Division St.), starting at 8 p.m. Tickets to the next WCR All-Star game against the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls will be given away, derby footage will play all evening, and expect a night of drinks, dancing, and derby trivia.

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Venus Zine

Got Derby? Two Skaters Provide a Comprehensive Look into the Sport

Down and Derby has a hip, conversational tone, like a girlfriend giving you the lowdown over a pitcher of PBR. They take you on an insider tour through the life of a derby girl and all that entails: dynamics, drama, friendships, injuries, interleague romances, practices, and "derby widows." Profile interviews with star skaters and support staff from across the country break up the chapters, including Windy City Rollers’ skater Jackie Daniels... and Tahirah “Tequila Mockingbird” Johnson of the Windy City Rollers.

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Spinner

Juliette Lewis Dedicates Stooges Cover to Roller Derby Team in Chicago

At Reggie's Rock Club in Chicago Wednesday night, Lewis proudly dedicated a cover of the Stooges' 'No Fun' to the Windy City Rollers, Chicago's all-female roller derby league. Lewis stated she drove nine hours in a van to see her girls and knew "what it was like being on the tracks," referring to her role in last year's Drew Barrymore-helmed roller derby film 'Whip It.'

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GOOD

Who Will Win Roller Derby’s Greatest Crown?

First, in mid-September, qualified teams will battle for regional supremacy in the first four of the WFTDA’s so-called Big Five tournaments. In the Midwestern Thunda of the Tundra Chicago’s highly experienced Windy City Rollers stand out from a pack that includes Detroit’s squad and the host team, Milwaukee’s Brew City Bruisers.

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CSLInsider

Wojtulewicz excited about Niles North assistant AD job

“It was more of like a punk rock kind of thing to do,” Wojtulewicz said. “So the conservative teacher coming in it was sort of like unique since I didn’t have any tattoos or piercing or strangely colored hair at the time. And I just came out and blew them away with my athleticism. I did pretty well and it became part of my life... I just absolutely fell in love with it. It was a life-changing experience. It was more than just a hobby. It became part of my life.”

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Chicago Tribune

All-Star Rollers Hit the Track

The best skaters run the track when the Windy City Rollers All-Stars take on the Boston Massacre at UIC Pavilion. The All-Stars are players from all the Windy City home teams, and travel all over the country competing in flat-track roller derby.

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Gapers Block

WCR All-Stars Edge Out Boston Massacre 121-115

It was a nail-biter of a bout last Saturday, July 31, as the WCR All-Stars took on the Cincinnati Silent Lambs and Boston Massacre in an exciting double-header at the UIC Pavilion.

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Chicago Now

Windy City Rollers Roll Over the Competition

Saturday night the Windy City Rollers were winners in both bouts at the UIC Pavilion. In the first bout Chicago had a cakewalk of 184 to Cincinnati's 96. The Windy City All Stars vs the Boston Derby Dames pushed each other for both periods of the bout.  The final score was All Stars 121 Boston 115.

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See the list here: http://www.tcwmag.com/readers-choice-best-of-chicago

]]> http://www.windycityrollers.com/windy-city-rollers-named-a-top-chicago-sports-team/feed/ 0 Kola Loka takes home overall silver medal from National Speed Skating Championship http://www.windycityrollers.com/kola-loka-takes-home-overall-silver-medal-from-national-speed-skating-championship/ http://www.windycityrollers.com/kola-loka-takes-home-overall-silver-medal-from-national-speed-skating-championship/#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:50:51 +0000 Slammah Montana http://www.windycityrollers.com/?p=2225 This past weekend, WCR skaters Kola Loka and Beth Amphetamine traveled to Lincoln, Nebraska to compete at the 2010 Speed Skating National Championship. Kola won silver overall in her division. Despite receiving a disqualification in her first race (1000 meters), she came back and won her next race (500 meters); that first place finish, combined with a second place finish in her final race (1500 meters), earned her enough points to take home the silver medal.

Kola then teamed up with Beth Amp to race the 2000 meter relay, where they dusted the competition and took home a gold medal.

Retired Manic Attacker Mimi Me-Ow also raced in the national championship, making it into the finals in two of her three division races.

Congratulations to Kola and Beth Amp on their excellent showing! Also, don't forget that you can catch Beth in action this summer during the WCR All-Stars season; the next game is on July 31 at UIC Pavilion.

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