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BLUE RIDGE ROLLERGIRLS: Asheville’s Derby Divas

Off the track, they’re known by the somewhat unremarkable names given to them as sweet baby girls. Little did their parents realize, naively fretting over every childhood bruise and scrape, that their darling daughters would grow up to adopt new identities as rough-and-tumble rollergirls—Caslamity Jane, Pulp Friction, Terrordactyl, Agent MauldHer, and other amusing-yet-fear-inducing names too numerous to mention. Like superheroes, these ladies don different personas when they lace up their speed skates and hit the derby track.

They are the Blue Ridge Rollergirls, the one and only flat-track roller derby league in Asheville, N.C. If you didn’t catch a “bout” (the term for a derby game) in 2007—their first competitive season, which they emerged from undefeated—you don’t want to miss what they have in store for 2008. But just to warn you, derby is addictive for skaters and spectators alike

For the complete story, please read the Spring 2008 issue of Marquee Mountain South.

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