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A skater launches onto the track to warm up before The Chesapeake Roller Derby’s team, The Mutiny, inaugural game against South Jersey Derby at the Danielle Shipley Memorial Arena at the Carroll County Ag. Center in Westminster, Saturday, January 23, 2010.
Derby skater Knockout Rose (Monica Yankovich, from the Medfield neighborhood of Baltimore City) rallies the audience during her introduction at the Chesapeake Roller Derby’s inaugural game against South Jersey Derby at the Danielle Shipley Memorial Arena at the Carroll County Ag. Center in Westminster, Saturday, January 23, 2010. The CRD team, known as the Mutiny, is a co-ed roller derby league, playing under the Old School Derby Association (OSDA) rules, which differ to those of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), which the Charm City Roller Girls are a part of. Some key differences are: pivots’, who wear a striped helmet cover, ability to break as a jammer without passing the “panty,” which is the starred helmet cover used to signify the team’s jammer. Whereas in WFTDA, the panty has to be physically handed over and put on the helmet for a player’s position to be changed. The OSDA uses the term games, not bouts, — the WFTDA term — because, according to Richmond, VA referee Square Cat (Philip Perrine) “it’s not a fight.”
An estimated 1,200 people attended the Chesapeake Roller Derby Mutiny’s inaugural game at the Shipley Arena in Westminster, Saturday, January 23, 2010 — many of whom dressed like pirates.
Dressed in full pirate regalia, Layth Yousfi, 6, from Eldersburg, cheers on the Chesapeake Roller Derby’s team, The Mutiny, during their inaugural game against South Jersey Derby at the Danielle Shipley Memorial Arena at the Carroll County Ag. Center in Westminster Saturday, January 23, 2010.
Charm City Roller Derby transplant Shevil Knievel (Tecla Tesnau, from the Baltimore neighborhood of Govans), left, reacts after fellow Chesapeake Roller Derby Mutiny teammate Akilla the Hon (Kerry Koenig, from Havre de Grace) takes a dive on the Danielle Shipley Memorial Arena floor. The Mutiny lost their inaugural game against South Jersey Derby 29-56, Saturday, January 23, 2010.
Chesapeake Roller Derby pivot-turned-jammer, Motor Menace (Ben Kraft, from Towson), shoulders-off with South Jersey Derby jammer BreakHer Baker (Ashley Baker, from Voorhees, NJ), foreground. South Jersey Derby, formed in 2007, would go on to beat CRD’s fledgling Mutiny team 29-56 during their inaugural game at the Danielle Shipley Memorial Arena at the Carroll County Ag. Center in Westminster Saturday, January 23, 2010.
“What I do for this team,” says China Maiden (Jeannie Graham), from Jacksonville. During half-time, the Chesapeake Roller Derby Mutiny skater rolls around the derby rink, in accord with the team’s pirate theme, sporting parrots from the Damascus-based Wilson Parrot Foundation.
Chesapeake Roller Derby donates a portion of their proceeds from each home game to The American Breast Cancer Foundation. Subsequently, many of the team members’ derby names are breast-oriented. Skater Booby Dooby Doo, aka Gina DiPeppe, who grew up in Perry Hall, and currently lives in Astoria, NY, leads a breast examination demonstration during half time at The Mutiny’s inaugural game against the South Jersey Derby Girls at the Shipley Arena in Westminster Saturday, January 23, 2010. DiPeppe, a pancreatic cancer survivor, is the Corporate Development Officer for the American Breast Cancer Foundation. Matt Shadrach, right, of Dundalk, helps steady the demo breast.
A broken toe might have kept Kismets Booty (Nicole Iwaszko, from Owings Mills), middle, off the track for The Mutiny’s inaugural game against South Jersey Derby, Saturday, January 23, 2010, but it didn’t keep her out of the game. Seen cheering on her teammates, she was reassigned duty as the “score card girl.” “I wanted to be in the middle… but the refs said no.” For the duration of the game she stood behind Cannonball Hon (Katie Shadrach, from Dundalk), left, another injured roller girl who ran the score board, and the event’s sound man, Michael Warring, from Mount Vernon, right.
Chesapeake Roller Derby Mutiny skater, She Legs (Sharon Stahl), from Jacksonville, listens to strategy during a break between the games during the new co-ed roller derby team’s inaugural game against South Jersey Derby at the Shipley Arena in Westminster, Saturday, January 23, 2010. The Mutiny would go on to lose the bout 29-56.
Chesapeake Roller Derby jammer Molly Wanna CrackHer (Molly Moores, from Towson), takes a breather behind the Mutiny’s bench during her team’s inaugural game against the South Jersey Derby Girls at the Danielle Shipley Memorial Arena at the Carroll County Ag. Center in Westminster, Saturday, January 23, 2010.
Chesapeake Roller Derby Mutiny member China Maiden (Jeannie Graham), from Jacksonville, bids a “good game,” to members of the South Jersey Derby Girls after the Mutiny’s inaugural game at the Danielle Shipley Memorial Arena at the Carroll County Ag. Center in Westminster Saturday, January 23, 2010.
Meth Race 2000 (Peter Goode, from Remington) sits with a dislocated shoulder, after the The Mutiny’s inaugural game against South Jersey Derby Saturday, January 23, 2010 at The Danielle Shipley Memorial Arena at the Carroll County Ag. Center in Westminster. They lost 29-56.