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Where did Slaughterhouse come from?
by RollaRella
Slaughterhouse Derby Girls was started in November
2007 after I skated with the FoCo Girls Gone Derby for
just over a year. I learned about rollerderby while
visiting my cousin in Seattle. He was a referee for the
Rat City Roller Girls and they were hosting a big
tournament at Bumbershoot. It was the first I'd seen
roller derby and I knew from the first whistle that I
needed to be part of this amazing sport. I never really
was involved in sports as a kid, but for some reason
roller derby just spoke to me! Roller derby has
changed a lot through the years. Flat track roller derby
(what we play) is actually a relatively new sport that
started in Austin, TX in 2001. The old banked track
was flattened so it could be played virtually anywhere
with a large enough flat surface. Today's roller derby
skaters focus more on the sport and less on spectacle
where in the past, roller derby was more like the WWF.
Don't get me wrong, we still wear fish nets and crazy
makeup, we still have roller derby names (our alter
egos), but fighting is not allowed and playing by the
rules is crucial to a league's success.When I got home
from Seattle, I found the FoCo league and joined.
After a year of driving 40 minutes to practice twice a week through terrible weather and very late at night (I usually didn't
get home until midnight), I contemplated starting a league here in Greeley. I started to do some research, found a place to
skate, put an ad in the paper, and hosted our first recruitment meeting in December, 2007. We started skating in January,
2008 at the now closed JBS Sports. We started with 13 girls and slowly started growing from there! We had our first bout
in May of 2008. In July, 2008 we learned that JBS had been bought so we had to look for another space. We looked into
the FunPlex, other warehouses, and the old Wornoco building and finally found our current location in the old Startek
building on 22nd St. We are now 35 skaters strong with a great support "staff" of coaches, referees, and
volunteers. We just had a recruitment and have 18 new skaters from that group! We are a non-profit organization and
none of us gets paid for what we do. In fact, all skaters have to pay monthly dues, participate in fund-raisers, etc. so we
can continue to skate. Roller derby is considered an amateur sport (not recreational). We skate year-round, train for at
least 4 hours a week together, and are very committed. Our skaters range in age from 18 to 48. We are students, moms,
business owners, business women, married, single, divorced, tall, short, fat, skinny. There is no "typical" roller derby girl.
We all have love for the sport, passion, commitment, and consider our fellow roller derby skaters "family". We are
members of the Women's Flat Track Association (WFTDA). From their web site: ";This amazing organization provides
guidance, regulations, sisterhood, and the opportunity to compete with the best roller derby athletes in the country."
www.wftda.com. Hope this give you a little insight to the Slaughterhouse Derby Girls! Greeley, Colorado's only flat track
roller derby league!
Roller derby isn't what you remember from 20 years ago. A lot has changed. For one thing, the roller derby derby has become a sport more than just entertainment. The skaters are athletes who practice multiple times a week, every week, all year round. Here are the basic rules:
Each game is called a bout. Each bout is comprised of either 3, 20 minute periods or 2, 30 minute periods. Within each period are jams. Each jam lasts no longer than 2 minutes. The period clock only stops for time outs, but does not stop when a jam stops. There are four blocker positions for each team. The blocker in the front with the stripe on her helmet cover is called the Pivot. The pivot's job is to maintain the speed of the pack and be the last line of defense. The other three blockers have no helmet cover. Their job is to prevent the opposing team from earning points by blocking or checking the other blockers. Legal target zones include the arm from the shoulder to the shoulders, below the knees, and the back. Legal blocking zones include the arm from the shoulder to the elbow, the torso, and the hips and booty. Illegal blocking zones include the elbows, forearms, hands, and the head. Tripping is not allowed nor is blocking from behind. Fighting will result in expulsion from the arena. Skaters must be in bounds when executing a block. The eight blockers (four from each team) comprise the pack. There is one jammer position for each team. The jammer is identified with a star on her helmet cover. The jammer is the only player allowed to score points. The jammer has to make it through the pack one time before they can earn points. The first jammer to make it through the pack the first time without committing any penalties is called the lead jammer. The lead jammer can call off the jam at any time, even from the ground if she falls! If she is called out to the penalty box, she loses lead jammer status. If there is no lead jammer, the jam will go for a full 2 minutes. After the first pass through the pack, the jammer earns points for her team by legally passing the opposing team's blockers. She earns one point for every opposing team member she passes even if that team member is in the penalty box. Penalties are assessed as either major or minor. Any illegal move that dramatically influences the outcome of the game is considered a major penalty. A skater who commits a major penalty will be sent immediately to the penalty box. Illegal moves that do not dramatically influence the outcome of the game are considered minor penalties. After four minor penalties, the skater will be sent to the penalty box. All penalties are 1 minute long and to roll over from jam to jam and period to period. The team with the most points wins!
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Porterhouse Dollz Vs June's Cleavers
Prime Cuts _ Foco Girls Gone Derby
Bone Saw Brusiers _ Grand Junction
Prime Cuts vs Oklahoma City Roller Derby
Bone Saw Bruisers vs Castle Rock n' Rollers
Prime Cuts _ Pikes Peak
Habitat for Humanity Bout
Porterhouse Dollz vs June's Cleavers
Bone Saw Bruisers vs Grand Junction
Mayday Mayhem
Bone Saw Bruisers vs Pueblo Renegade Rollers
Prime Cuts _ Castle Rock n' Rollers
Bone Saw Brusiers _ Naughty Pines
Prime Cuts vs Treasure Valley
Bone Saw Bruisers _ A'salt Creek
Prime Cuts vs Central Coast
Bone Saw Bruisers vs Foco Punchy Brewsters
Prime Cuts _ TBA
Prime Cuts and Bone Saw Bruisers _ Ark Valley
Prime Cuts and Bone Saw Brusiers vs Cheyenne Capidolls and Punishers
Snow Brawl
COME SKATE WITH US!
Our next recruitment meetings is January 25, 2012 at 7pm
at the Kill Floor--237 22nd St. Greeley, CO.
If you have little to no skating experience, then recruitment is for you!
We teach you from the ground up!
For more info: Email us
We also have a junior league for ages 7-17!
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Taladega Nate
All Systems Go
D-Day Doll
Gina Guillatina
Agusta Wind
Huckleberry Sinn
Iggy Poppins
Play Chick'n WitMe
Rosie D. Railer
Short Stack
Wild E. Coyote
Cheyenne Pepper
Slim Slam Mayhem
Tiki Torture
Trixie Von Teaze
Warchick Barbie
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Outlaw
Ani Hellation
MeQuadza B. Blazin
Lady Duff
Evol Love
Trip-See Gypsy
K.O. Mama
Krista Nite
Maximum Impact
Madame Medusa
Wicked Sassy Bea
Tootsie Poppins
Tongue In Cheek
MeQuadza B. Zuumin
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Dirty Derby Dame
Rage In Panties
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Lafonda Yomama
Pantie Depressant
Busty Galore
Hassle-Her
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Backhand Bettie
Mad Marge Pimpson
Tenacious T
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Against My Better Judgement
Cherry Vicious
Luna-Tic Lovegood
Cleopunchya
Hostile Hookher
Butcher Babes
Recruitment
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Position: Blocker and coach of Choice Cuts
Team: Porterhouse Dollz and Prime Cuts
Experience: played derby 4 years. Started derby career at Denver Roller Dolls. Been with SDG since July 2010. Been on roller skates for a career of over 30 years.
Derby injuries: Tore tendon in shoulder. Broken ribs. Knee injuries. Broken nose.
Interests: Dancing country, hip hop. Softball. Roller skating. Spending time with family.You can find me at the softball fields or on the derby track.
Teams: Prime Cuts and Porterhouse Dollz
Positions: Blocker, Pivot
Joined Slaughterhouse Derby Girls: February, 2010.
Personal/Team Goals: To work hard to make Prime Cuts a contender for Nationals level competition; and SDG a Roller Derby force to be reckoned with.
Committees: Pivot-Bout Committee....hear me roar!!
Training: Black Belt in booty blockin.....beware biotches! And skating, skating, skating...
Background of Derby Name: During the day she is a mild-mannered, hard working mother of 2....But when the lights go down and the scoreboard comes up, this hard-hitting, play-calling, roller derby LOVIN mama takes her stage...steps into the limelight...and becomes Trixie Von Teaze!
Teams: Prime Cuts and June's Cleavers
Positions: Blocker, Jammer
League Position: Secretary
Joined Slaughterhouse Derby Girls: February 2010
Personal Goals: To hit like Beyonslay and be an agile jammer like Bonnie D. Stroir. To push myself one step farther than I think I can every time I skate. Never have any regrets!
Team Goals: To be on a team that is a united front that is going to go all the way to the top! Can't think of a better group of ladies to do it with than the ladies of Slaughterhouse!
How I came up with my derby name and number: My name is a tribute to all the amazing men and women of WWII! The boys that went to foreign lands to fight for our freedom and the super ladies that stayed at home and fought just as hard here to keep this country going. My name is actually from an airplane. I am nose art!! My number is the type of airplane that D-Day Doll is on, a C-53D. Besides, what sounds tougher than D-Day!! Better watch out, I just might drop a hit on you!!
My alter ego: I spend the rest of my time with my boys who are my biggest fans! We are a simple country family who love to live everyday like we are in the old west!! I am an educator. I teach Hematology, Microbiology and Large Animal medicine at a college for Veterinary Technicians.
Name: Gina Guillatina
Number: 211
Teams: Porterhouse Dollz and Prime Cuts
I joined in February of 2010 and was just asked to join the Prime Cuts, and I'm very honored and excited to bring anything I can offer to the team :)
My name is Agusta Wind. I was part of SDG's second recruitment group in Feb. 2008. I joined derby on a whim, and have never looked back or regreted the decision to play. This is the best and most fun and fulfilling thing I have ever been a part of, aside from parenthood.
I am from Norway. I am married with two kids. I am currently one semester away from getting my bachelor's degree in Early Childhood Education from UNC.
I cannot imagine my life without derby. My goal for my derby career is to win a medal, I will not retire until I do. To be a part of a team that wins the Hydra would be the ultimate derby dream come true. My derby idol is one of my oldest friends, Fiona Grapple of RMRG. She inspires me to push myself to become a better derby player every day. My team mates do the same.
I am currently the Executive Director of SDG, and am proud to represent this fantastic organization and all of its members.Off the track you'll like me, on the track it's a whole different Oprah.
Ever since my mom, K.O. Mama, joined SDG with the first round of girls, it has been my dream to see my name and number on the back of a Slaughterhouse jersey. Roller Derby has become a great passion of mine outside of my family and schooling. When I was in high school, I played a wide amount of sports, but could never find the one that was really "for me", until now. With roller derby, I feel more confident and happy then I did playing any other sport. This sport keeps me calm and relaxed in the real world. By day, I am just your ordinary redneck, going to school for a Welding Degree. But by night, I turn into the superhero I dreamed of being as little girl. I am not only what I always wanted to be, but I am the youngest Slaughterhouse Derby Girl--but first, I was a junior girl.
I joined Slaughterhouse Derby Girls in May of 2010, and was put on the Porterhouse Dolls in July. I joined derby because my big sister Iggy Poppins has played for years, and I never missed a bout. As soon as I graduated college I joined and I love it, it is like nothing I have ever done before. I am not an athletic person at all, and besides the soccer I played in elementary school, I have never played sports.
Roller Derby has taught me a lot about myself and has pushed me in new directions of my life and I love working hard and watching the progression of where I have come from. I have a long way to go, but I am enjoying every minute of it and am excited for my new journey as a Bone Saw Bruiser!
SDG is amazing and I would be proud to be on any team of this wonderful league.
Name: Lafonda Yomama
Number: 707 (In honor of my home, Humboldt County, CA)
Team: Porterhouse Dollz
My all-time favorite movie is Napoleon Dynamite, so that's where I got my name from. I'm not sure where the Yomama part came from, but my favorite phrase is "your mom" so it fit.I've been skating since they had those plastic skates that buckled over my My Little Pony shoes--but recently, only since August 2010 when I joined SDG as Fresh Meat.
Derby is the ONLY exercise I can force myself to do as I absolutely despise sweating, but it's so amazingly wonderful I changed my life around to accommodate it. It keeps me from committing murder. Hopefully it will make me skinny soon.I love to sing--music is everything to me. I play flute and piano as well.
I should probably be on that show Hoarders as there are more animals in my house than humans.
My idols are Trixie Von Teaze and MeQuadza B. Zuumin. Someday I will be a superhuman power-hitting hybrid of the two. =)
Teams: PROUD to be a CLEAVER!
Bio: Cherry, Cherry, Quite Contrary; How does your derby go? With Hip Blocks here and T-Bones there, and pretty JUNEs all in a row...
Cleopunchya #30BC
Joined: Fresh Meat of August 2010
Derby Wife: Luna-tic Lovegood
Advantages: Being small, having bony hips
Disadvantages: Being small, foot cramps
Talents: Jumps, falling in contorted ways & being a-okay, goofing off, arts and crafts
Weaknesses: Chapstick, daydreaming, cute animals, goofing off, snake bites
Inspiration: Slim Slam Mayhem
Arch Nemesis: Colonel Sanders, the Roman Empire
Wild E. Coyote #WB2
June's Cleaver and Prime Cuts, plays a Jammer
Fast and clumsy...how I live my life, but I am always having fun! That's why I picked my derby name as Wild E. Coyote. Going to school for Elementary Education...watch out future generations! I grew up in Ft. Collins, new to Greeley and lovin being a part of such an amazing league...Slaughter House Derby Girls. I have so much fun skating. My fav living creature (other than mom) is my amazing dog Sancho! Swimming, walking, biking, tug-of-war is how we spend our time together....PRICELESS!!
Likes: Food, movies, derby, traveling, time with family and friends, Cirque du Soleil, and being a GIRL!!!!
Dislikes: Onions, snow, being cold
I started skating in the Jan 2010 recruitment and am one of the founding members of the June's Cleavers. I love everything about roller derby and proud to be part of Slaughterhouse Derby Girls!! BRING IT!!!
Name: Luna-tic Lovegood
Number: HP7
Team: June's Cleavers!
Joined: Started as a fresh meat; in Aug 2010
Position: Blocker, maybe jammer someday!
Likes outside of derby: reading, friends, baking, sleeping, movies, and of course studying elementary education and arts integration at UNC
Origin of my skate name: I love the Harry Potter series! There is a character named Luna Lovegood, and I did a play off her name
And number: my number stands for Harry Potter 7 because there are 7 books in the series
Who's house? Slaughterhouse!
By day I play with my daughter and do house work. By night, I throw on my skates and become Mad Marge PiMPson. I enjoy skating, spending time with my family, and PBR. Some of my favorite things about derby is the adrenaline rush, all the fantastic ladies on the team, and our wonderful fans! Dancing at the after parties is a bonus as well! I can't wait to continue my derby career and possible get to teach my daughter. Throughout the years I've played many sports and I finally found one that fits me and my lifestyle!
Derby name: Short Stack
Number: 666
Joined Derby: Jan. 2010
Athletic History: Roller Skating Figure back _ good ol' Warnoco. Grew up playing Soccer and doing Gymnastics. Took up kickboxing in 99' and now teach kickboxing and other classes here in Greeley. Used to compete in natural bodybuilding and still love to lift weights as much as possible.
Derby Name History: Working at the hospital and lifting weights one of my co-workers named me short stack and it just stuck. The number would be what my mother considered me growing up....the devil:) I intend on using both characteristics on the floor!!!
Position: I love to Jam!! I try to block!! Trying to get better at both...either way, I love the challenge of both.
Personal History: Grew up in Greeley, have a great husband and 3 lil' girls and I enjoy pushing myself in derby and the team building with my derby sisters....as well as hitting and getting hit. I love the rush!!!
Name: Slim-Slam Mayhem
Number: 187
Jammer mostly but learning to be a better blocker
How I found derby: In February, 2009 I showed up to recruitment with my best friend and unknowingly found a new life in Roller Derby. Outside of work and family time, this is where I'm at. I had limited skating experience before, which I always tell those who want to join because if I can do it, why not you?!
Life on the other-side: I am married with two spoiled pit-bulls, who are more like spoiled children. I'm from a small mountain town and came to Greeley for college. I work on a cardiovascular unit as a registered nurse. In my little to no free time I try to pretend that I am crafty. I love all types of music, especially those you can dance to. I love karaoke and paint-by-numbers.
Derby is a first for a lot of things, including broken bones. My very first broken bone happened 1 year in. And I got really sick of hearing, "You play roller derby?! But you're so skinny." Yes, skinny girls can play Derby!!
So I'll see ya on the track but where you have to watch out is at the after party, cuz I started dancin' long before I started skatin'!
Name: Iggy Poppins
Number: 636
Teams: Prime Cuts, Porterhouse Dollz
Date Joined Slaughterhouse: March 2008
Favorite Positions: Blocking in the front and I'm learning to embrace my inner jammer
Experiences and Strengths as a Skater: I went to a few roller skating parties in elementary school. I liked the "Shoot the Duck" contest best.
What attracted you to derby? - The knee socks
What has derby done for you? - Derby has given me an extensive collection of fishnets and short shorts and my first ride in an ambulance
Hobbies/Other Interests: I like to take pictures. I like to make stuff out of paper and glue.
Ever competed in other sports?: Played soccer as a small girl. I sucked.
Phobias: Pool Drains, opening those cans of biscuits that explode as you peel back the paper
Obsessions: Coke Zero, New Kids on the Block
Bad Habits: Coke Zero, New Kids on the Block
Name: Busty Galore
Number: 72, my sons football number from high school
I joined the league with a friend in November 2010. Before that the last time skated I fell on my son and broke his arm! Oops...Family is very important to me .I have a son and 2 daughters. I'm also a grandma,1 boy and 1 girl.When I joined SDG I thought maybe I'd lose a little weight and have some fun. But I soon discovered a new family that's so supportive.
I love Survivor! I have sent in 4 video to try to get on the show. One other crazy thing I have done is skydive.I loved it.
I want to thank my family for all the support.Especially my husband for supporting the next crazy chapter in my life. "You only go around once!"
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Junes Cleaver
I watched my very first bout in August 2010, and immediately fell in love. I started skating in Jan 2011.
My ambition is to be able to hit like Trixie Von Teaze and KO Mama! My derby idol is Psychobabble!
I know it is totally cliché but Roller Derby really did SAVE MY SOUL!
I want to be the best skater I can be!
