What can you expect, this season besides a lot of lead changes and flip-flopping on which team is going to win the Ivy King Cup? Here’s what some of the captains have to say for 2012.

Sunshine N Painbows was the Windy City Rollers’ 2011 Rookie of the Year. She got of her first dose of derby as a spectator two summers ago and made the farm team, becoming a Haymarket Rioter in September 2010. SnP, as her teammates call her for short, was drafted as a new member of the Double Crossers in early 2011, and WCR’s Second Wind travel team in April 2011 before getting promoted to become a member of the Windy City All-Stars a month later. This week we sat down with SnP to talk ...

Announcing the rosters for your 2012 Windy City Roller Travel Teams! Congratulations to all the skaters, new and returning veterans. Come to the UIC Pavilion on Saturday, March 31 for your first chance to see these teams in their first home bout of the season!

The Manic Attackers were ahead from the start. The speedy feet of Abbey, jamming against the determined Zoe “The Matrix” Trocious, wasn’t enough to secure lead jammer status due to a stalwart roadblock of electric blue and yellow. Zoe Trocious scored an easy 4 points by the end of jam 1 and the Double Crossers were left empty handed.

What can you expect, this season besides a lot of lead changes and flip-flopping on which team is going to win the Ivy King Cup? Here’s what some of the captains have to say for 2012.

Both the Manic Attackers and the Double Crossers were looking to make an impression on the league Saturday night as they faced off against each other.

The Windy City Rollers held their annual Black and Blue Ball over the weekend, and some very special awards were handed out. A big congrats to all the award winners!

This week Karmageddon and Minerva Damage gave thanks for bruises and beer in the Huffington Post, the Bleacher Report prepared for the Roller Derby World Cup with some derby basics, and Gapers Block reported from the high-stakes Backed Track Chicago Invitational.

The WCR Second Wind faced off against the Kansas City Roller Warriors Plan B on Sept 10, 2011, bringing a ferocious point-scoring cavalcade to the UIC Pavilion and beating KCRW Plan B 210-103. 

The WCR Second Wind faced off against the Kansas City Roller Warriors Plan B on Saturday, bringing a ferocious point-scoring cavalcade and beating them 210-103 at the UIC Pavilion.  The night showed some faces not seen in a while for the Second Wind and some seen for the first time.