Jess took to the banked track yesterday as part of the TXRD All-Scar Army for the first round of our local Roller Derby Tournament. They were up against a relatively novice league from Corpus Christi, down the road from us. A sister league, if you will. It wasn’t a very close game, but at halftime the TXRD girls decided to change up their strategy and try some different things, so the final score was 75 to 14 or so. Some of the other scores from the first round were on the order of 150-0, though, so this was a slightly less blow-outy game.
Jess did great, blocking jammers and assisting her team all over the track. I took some video of her that I might edit together later and throw up here, but I did hear the announcers say her name a couple of times during the bouts. She’s starting to make a name for herself in the league. Go Jessie!
The rest of the tournament happens today. The most likely scenario is that Jess will get subbed out for some of the faster players that they were holding back for the bigger games. TXRD will be playing the LA team today. (By the way, when I wrote yesterday that Jess was on the LA team as an alternate? That was a typo. She’s on the Austin Team.) Last year, the LA team came in and just smoked the Austin Team, and so Austin has been really training hard to even the score. It’s definitely going to be a tough race, either way.
I’ll let you know how it wraps up later.
Also, Happy Fathers day!
-N
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