Name: Your Mom
Age: 30
Profession: Roller Derby Skater
Team: The Bone Crushers, of the Connecticut Roller Girls
Position: Blocker. “They put me out there to scare opposing players.”
Name Out Of Uniform: Nolan Smith
Neighborhood: East Rock
Job Outside Roller Derby: Financial assistant in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, Yale medical school
Interviewed: After this past Saturday night’s bout vs. the Iron Angels (Click on video to watch interview excerpts.)
Years Playing Roller Derby: 4
Years She Expects To Keep Playing: “‘Til I get bored. We’ve got people in our league who are in their mid-40s. We take them as young as 18; they have to have health insurance.”
Best Part Of The Game: “Hitting people. … You get to knock ‘em over. You get them to be a little bit afraid of you. I’m very mild-mannered. I’m very nice. I would never walk up to someone on the sidewalk and like run into them. But here it’s great. It’s really fun.”
Why She Named Herself “Your Mom”: “I thought it was funny. … I’m not a mom.”
Number: 1953, the year her mom was born
Mom’s Take On Her Daughter’s Roller-Derby Career: “She thinks it’s hilarious.”
Future Plans To Become A Mom?: “Never, no. I have never wanted to grow anything side of me. It sounds gross, and I don’t want to do it. We have lots of moms in our league. Slugger Face is a mom … Dee Nasty, the little beanpole on our team, has five children.”
Next Bout: Dec. 7; details here.
<i> "I have never wanted to grow anything side of me. It sounds gross, and I don't want to do it." </i>
LOL!
Ditto Sister!