New Girls, New Issues

So let's face one fact that has held true for all of time - when you get a bunch of women together there's bound to be drama. Especially when the woman are a bunch of independent, out-spoken, strong-willed, passionate and "don't-take-no-crap-from-no-one" women. We all know that these are the very women that are drawn to roller derby. The sport wouldn't exist without these women. There wouldn't have been an original A&E series called Rollergirls if there wasn't any drama to put on TV.

In the early months of the league we had encountered some issues with a skater or two and how to handle unsportswoman like conduct (intentionally trying to hurt your own teammate just because you don't like her is considered unsportswoman like conduct). I still kick myself in the pants today about not being more aggressive about it. Letting issues go and trying to make everyone happy really hurt more in the long run and I learned that you're never going to make everyone happy. Someone is always going to get the short end of the stick. I didn't want to scare the skaters away that we had, especially strong skaters, but we ended up losing them because they weren't happy with the majority ruling. Such is life in roller derby. Women will come and women will go over the biggest or smallest things. You've got to remember that roller derby leagues "are run for the skaters, by the skaters" and everyone has a different philosophy on how their league should be run. However it should be everyone's main goal to uphold the Orders of Operations that the league put in place.

Yes we lost some of our founding skaters over the months Mama MIA, Ginger Snap, Boxcutter Betty & we lost a few new recruits to injuries, broken ankles, torn ligaments, & busted up knees. But with these departure's brought us new girls like Pitchaso, Ruby Sinn, Bombshell Bekah, Kimmy Kaos, & Hold'er Back Holland a.k.a Annathrax a.k.a Ivanna Skate. Eventually by March of 2008 we had officially enough skaters to break off into two home teams and in March we received a call from the Palmetto State Rollergirls inviting us to skate in not only our league's first official bout, but the first ever flat-track roller derby bout in the state of SC.