Body By Derby: Gender Non-Conforming

Body By Derby is a figure study of active derby athletes to show the different body types of active skaters and the physical effects derby has on the players. This entry features derby athletes who identify as butch, trans*, gender non-conforming, or intersex of any variance.  These skaters represent Ann Arbor Derby Dimes, Bleeding Heartland Roller Derby, Ohio Roller Girls, Providence Roller Derby, and our hosts Windy City Rollers. More pictures can be found at Cory's website. Get future updates on Facebook by following The Rollergirl Project.

From Left: Rogue Scholar, Melicious Mischief, Zoe Trocious, The Smacktivist, Trannie Oakley, June Gloom, Val Capone and Ms Dr Joseph L Simonis

	Name	Rogue Scholar
	League Affiliation	Bleeding Heartland Roller Derby
	Gender Identity	Genderqueer
	Age	23
	Children	None
	Height	5' 4"
	Weight	145 lbs
	Weight before derby	140 lbs
	Started	2013
	Key Position	Jammer & Offensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	7 hours
	Other Workout	I do cardio, run occasionally, and weight training.
	Diet	Vegetarian. I try to get as much protein as I can but eat whatever I want.
	Laps in 5 minutes	30 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Mostly running. I started off with cross country and track, moved on to 1/2 marathons and one marathon.

	Name	Melicious Mischief
	League Affiliation	Ann Arbor Derby Dimes
	Gender Identity	I am a trans-women and derby has helped me make so much more of myself then I ever thought I would be.
	Age	25
	Children	2 kids, ages 6 and 5
	Height	5’ 9''
	Weight	200 lbs
	Weight before derby	220 lbs
	Started	August 2014
	Key Position	Jammer & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	10 hours
	Other Workout	Wait there are other ways to workout besides derby?
	Diet	Food.
	Laps in 5 minutes	28 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Does the military count as athletic experience?

	Name	Zoe Trocious
	League Affiliation	Windy City Rollers
	Age	34
	Children	None
	Height	5' 6"
	Weight	140 lbs
	Weight before derby	130 lbs
	Started	2009
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	8 to 10 hours
	Other Workout	Weights, plyometrics, running.
	Diet	I eat as many calories as possible, in every variety.
	Laps in 5 minutes
	Previous Athletic Experience	I ran cross country and track in high school and played rugby in college.

	Name	The Smacktivist
	League Affiliation	Ohio Roller Girls
	Gender Identity	Non-binary, genderfluid. I use they/them pronouns. I am this AND that.
	Age	23
	Children	None
	Height	5' 4"
	Weight	??
	Weight before derby	??
	Started	Fall of 2011
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	6 to 8 hours
	Other Workout	I'm a bike commuter, plus I hit the gym for weight lifting 5-6 times per week.
	Diet	I'm vegan and gluten free.
	Laps in 5 minutes	33 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Development swim team, youth soft ball, youth travel soccer, school cross country and track, roller hockey, tier I AAA travel ice hockey.

	Name	Trannie Oakley
	League Affiliation	Providence Roller Derby
	Gender Identity	I identify as a trans woman, and use the pronouns she, and her.
	Age	33
	Children	None
	Height	5' 10”
	Weight	190 lbs
	Weight before derby	175 lbs
	Started	Summer 2013
	Key Position	Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	11 hours
	Other Workout	Four hours cardio / week
	Diet	Ha. No.. I try to but I’m not very good about it.
	Laps in 5 minutes	32 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Soccer in childhood through high school, and I wrestled four years in high school.

	Name	June Gloom
	League Affiliation	Windy City Rollers
	Gender Identity	I identify as transgender, exist as transfeminine, and am a trans lady. My pronouns are context specific: I'm generally indifferent, but in female spaces, I require female pronouns.
	Age	28
	Children	None
	Height	6’ 7”
	Weight	270 lbs
	Weight before derby	200 lbs
	Started	2011
	Key Position	Offensive Blocker & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	8 hours
	Other Workout	I attend a Kettlebells class, jump rope, and bike.
	Diet	N/A
	Laps in 5 minutes	29 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Not much beyond Junior Varsity Volleyball

	Name	Val Capone
	League Affiliation	Windy City Rollers
	Age	36
	Children	None
	Height	5' 9"
	Weight	179 lbs
	Weight before derby	226 lbs
	Started	July 2004
	Key Position	Offensive & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	Depending on work schedule, I skate 3-5 practices a week plus coach one
	Other Workout	I'm a gym rat and love the free weights. I also speed skate Saturday mornings before the sun comes up. It's a love/hate relationship, for sure.
	Diet	Well, because I have Crohn's I'm on a special "try it!" Basically it's a try it and see if it works diet? I used to be the queen of the all you can eat buffet, but now I get full before even finishing a sandwich. I can't have any red meat, which is a bit of a heartbreaker, but I can have cheese, thankfully. I was also told that I shouldn't have sushi, but that ban will be lifted on my birthday this Friday, per doctors orders, of course. I drink a lot of Muscle Milk protein shakes and eat a lot of applesauce squeezers. I'm, essentially, on a toddlers diet. Today's lunch at work consisted of half a grilled cheese sandwich, a few bites of mashed potatoes and about three green beans, ha. It's a work in progress to say the least...
	Laps in 5 minutes	n/a-I'll be redoing this soon once I get full clearance, but I couldn't tell you off the top of my head
	Previous Athletic Experience	I've been weight lifting since I was 14 years old and I've been a bowler my entire life, ha. I actually have a couple of giant trophies atop my fridge. I've also been roller skating since I was about 6 or 7 years old.

	Name	Ms Dr Joseph L Simonis
	League Affiliation	Windy City Rollers
	Gender Identity	To be honest, I try to avoid giving people identity labels about my gender (ditto sexuality) as much as possible. I would much rather exist than try to describe my existence with necessarily limiting terms. But I also realize that most of society works from gender labels (and in particular, a binary set of options), and so I have a cultivated set of functional identity labels that I use to describe my gender, depending on the situation, including "myself", "woman", "transgender", "genderqueer", "queer", "genderfluid", "agender", "butch", "non-binary", and "neutrois", amongst others.
	Age	30
	Children	None
	Height	6' 2"
	Weight	~190 lbs
	Weight before derby	~190 lbs
	Started	May 2012
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	10 to 15 hours
	Other Workout	Lots of off skates workouts, interval training mostly. I like beach running and hill running.
	Diet	I'm a vegetarian and I'm pretty lactose intolerant.
	Laps in 5 minutes	I think it was 32 in 5? We don't test laps that often, I just 30.5 coming out of offseason.
	Previous Athletic Experience	I definitely grew up in an athletic household. I started playing organized sports when I was five years old (soccer and baseball, although I dropped soccer pretty quickly). I played baseball for 12 years, played football for 8 years, wrestled for 6 years, and also played a few seasons of basketball and track, as well. I was pretty serious with sports through high school and was recruited to wrestle in college (at a few D3 schools, not big programs), but stopped playing organized sports after high school. I was still physically active in college and grad school but mostly just worked out at the gym, although I did also play intramural soccer and picked up rock climbing.

Body By Derby: Windy City Rollers

Body By Derby is a figure study of active derby athletes to show the different body types of active skaters and the physical effects derby has on the players. This entry features skaters from Windy City Rollers. More pictures can be found at Cory's website. Get future updates on Facebook by following The Rollergirl Project.

From Left:  Enemylou Harris, Shake N Bake, Poppy Spock, Moby Nipps, Hat Trixxxie, Magna, Stella Sabotage, Ms. Dr. Joseph L. Simonis, Mack Savage, Tay Q. Down, Zoe Trocious, Cuban Miss Elle, Beshemoth. Reina Chaos, Christian Mangle

	Name	Enemylou Harris
	Age	25
	Children	None
	Height	5’ 2”
	Weight	125 lbs
	Weight before derby	125 lbs
	Started	2012
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	4 hours
	Other Workout	I love to run. I run about three times a week outside of practice.
	Diet	Vegan
	Laps in 5 minutes	I don't know.
	Previous Athletic Experience	I've done sports my whole life. My mom got me and my sisters into running road races when we were kids, it just stuck.

	Name	Shake N Bake
	Age	24
	Children	None
	Height	5' 3"
	Weight	157 lbs
	Weight before derby	165 lbs
	Started	January 2014
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	6 to 8 hours
	Other Workout	Biking, weight lifting, yoga
	Diet	Eat everything in sight
	Laps in 5 minutes	27 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Soccer, track & field

	Name	Poppy Spock
	Age	47
	Children	None
	Height	5' 4"
	Weight	138 lbs
	Weight before derby	123 lbs probably
	Started	2007 Derby Lite, 2009 WCR
	Key Position	Offensive & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	4 hours per week
	Other Workout	I'm a trainer. So that entails about four more on-skates hours per week, plus four more off-skates hours per week spear-carrying for my clients where the spears are, like, 45# plates. I bike a lot for transportation, not everywhere but year-round. Otherwise I practice what I preach as a trainer, whole day fitness: 30 min walk including stairs every morning, 15 min meditation every afternoon, 7 min stretch every evening, and stand 2x/hour during prolonged sitting periods. And I have to finish by saying that training isn't the only button to push when it comes to fitness, there are four other buttons: sleep, meditation, hydration, and nutrition. Give the training button a rest, why don't you. Try the nice meditation button!
	Diet	My diet is called my rules, my results. Right now my rules are a cup of coffee and a cup of water when I wake up, a glass of water with every meal, protein and vegetable for every meal plus starchy vegetable or whole grain for one meal per day, fruits and nuts for afternoon and evening snacks, and alcohol, sugar, or starch just three meals per week. I stick to this pretty well through the year, and then it all goes to hell and I eat all white carbs between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Which isn't a rule, but it's certainly a pattern. I guess my diet should just be called my rules, because I don't care about the results. Or I guess I'd care about the results if they were bad. But they're not bad, so.
	Laps in 5 minutes	I have no idea.
	Previous Athletic Experience	Musical theater, lol. No seriously if you want to see athleticism, youtube that clip of Neil Patrick Harris doing the opening number at the Tonys. He's dancing hard for like forever straight AND SINGING the whole way through. Ever hear of the talk test? Flying colors, Doogie Howser. Also, in a tuxedo.

	Name	Moby Nipps
	Age	31
	Children	None
	Height	5' 4"
	Weight	145 lbs
	Weight before derby	130 lbs
	Started	Spring 2007
	Key Position	Offensive & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	8 hours on average
	Other Workout	I lift and do different cardio activities. This year has been a bit different as I work back from an injury, which dictates what I am able to do each day.
	Diet	Pescatarian
	Laps in 5 minutes	32 laps in 5 min (Haven't done it in years, though!)
	Previous Athletic Experience	High school sports, rollerblading

	Name	Hat Trixxxie
	Age	32
	Children	None
	Height	5' 5"
	Weight	145 lbs
	Weight before derby	130 lbs
	Started	2012
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	2 to 4 hours
	Other Workout	I play ice hockey 1-2x per week. Running, weightlifting, agility training and plyometrics 3-4x per week
	Diet	None
	Laps in 5 minutes	I don't know
	Previous Athletic Experience	I have been playing competitive women's/men's ice hockey since I was 9 years old.

	Name	Magna
	Age	39
	Children	One daughter age 5
	Height	5' 6”
	Weight	139 lbs
	Weight before derby	145 lbs
	Started	After a year and a half of training, I got into the league in August of 2014 and was drafted to the Hell's Belles this past December. I'm a rookie so I'm still discovering my strengths on the track.
	Key Position
	Practice time per week	5 to 7 hours
	Other Workout	I do the Roller Derby Athletics off skates program on the days I don't have practice. I also strength train and run 3-5 miles at least two times a week.
	Diet	For health reasons I have to be gluten-free. Otherwise I do try to consume as much protein and fresh fruits and vegetables as I can to keep my body healthy.
	Laps in 5 minutes
	Previous Athletic Experience	I only participated in sports such as basketball and karate when I was in high school, but that was mostly for fun and exercise. Derby is the first time I've participated in a sport at such a competitive level.

	Name	Stella Sabotage
	Age	35
	Children	None
	Height	5’ 9 1/2”
	Weight	150-155 lbs
	Weight before derby	155-157 lbs
	Started	2006
	Key Position	Offensive & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	6 hours sometimes more
	Other Workout	Boot Camp work outs, interval training, kettle bells, running, hiking, skating for fun, spin classes, personal trainer, etc...
	Diet	I have been vegetarian for 20 years.
	Laps in 5 minutes	30ish in 5 I think
	Previous Athletic Experience	Skateboarding in high school, running, working out at the gym.

	Name	Ms Dr Joseph L Simonis
	Age	30
	Children	None
	Height	6' 2"
	Weight	~190 lbs
	Weight before derby	~190 lbs
	Started	May 2012
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	10 to 15 hours
	Other Workout	Lots of off skates workouts, interval training mostly. I like beach running and hill running.
	Diet	I'm a vegetarian and I'm pretty lactose intolerant.
	Laps in 5 minutes	I think it was 32 in 5? We don't test laps that often, I just 30.5 coming out of offseason.
	Previous Athletic Experience	I definitely grew up in an athletic household. I started playing organized sports when I was five years old (soccer and baseball, although I dropped soccer pretty quickly). I played baseball for 12 years, played football for 8 years, wrestled for 6 years, and also played a few seasons of basketball and track, as well. I was pretty serious with sports through high school and was recruited to wrestle in college (at a few D3 schools, not big programs), but stopped playing organized sports after high school. I was still physically active in college and grad school but mostly just worked out at the gym, although I did also play intramural soccer and picked up rock climbing.

	Name	Mack Savage
	Age	25
	Children	None
	Height	5' 9”
	Weight	155 lbs
	Weight before derby	190 lbs
	Started	2012
	Key Position	Offensive & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	6+ hours
	Other Workout	Gym cardio/weight lifting when time allows.
	Diet	I try to be mindful of what I put in my body, but for the most part I to eat what I want, when I want. Playing roller derby, and staying active has given me this luxury (which I haven't always had.)
	Laps in 5 minutes
	Previous Athletic Experience	Equestrian Basketball

	Name	Tay Q. Down
	Age	26
	Children	None
	Height	5' 7"
	Weight	182 lbs
	Weight before derby	190 lbs
	Started	November 2009
	Key Position	Offensive & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	4 hours
	Other Workout	Weights, jogging, running stairs, agility ladder drills and ankle strengthening drills.
	Diet	I'm a baker for my career so it's really hard to cut foods out completely since we taste everything, but when I feel my strongest I'm following the Paleo lifestyle; which I just got back into.
	Laps in 5 minutes	It's been awhile but I think 29 in 5 min. I should prolly do this again ;)
	Previous Athletic Experience	From when I was younger figure skating, tennis, volleyball, softball, basketball, then in high school and college I played lacrosse.

	Name	Zoe Trocious
	Age	34
	Children	None
	Height	5' 6"
	Weight	140 lbs
	Weight before derby	130 lbs
	Started	2009
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	8 to 10 hours
	Other Workout	Weights, plyometrics, running.
	Diet	I eat as many calories as possible, in every variety.
	Laps in 5 minutes
	Previous Athletic Experience	I ran cross country and track in high school and played rugby in college.

	Name	Cuban Miss Elle
	Age	24
	Children	None
	Height	5' 5"
	Weight	125 lbs
	Weight before derby	115 lbs
	Started	Winter 2013
	Key Position	Jammer
	Practice time per week	6 hours
	Other Workout	Kettlebell, weightlifting, plyometrics, & endurance training
	Diet	Steak & sweet potatoes and cuban sandwiches
	Laps in 5 minutes	<= 27 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	Track & field cross country

	Name	Beshemoth
	Age	24
	Children	None
	Height	5' 4"
	Weight	170 lbs
	Weight before derby	197 lbs
	Started	2010
	Key Position	Offensive & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	During home season I skate between 4-6 hours a week, during travel season it can be 8 hours or more. I do also skate with other teams occasionally for extra fun practice time :)
	Other Workout	I typically work out 3 days at the gym or at home. Running, and swimming; swimming being my favorite lately
	Diet	None
	Laps in 5 minutes	30 laps in 5 min
	Previous Athletic Experience	I've played a lot of sports growing up and through my school years! I started at 6 with softball and cheerleading; I then moved to martial arts at 11. Right after I started MA I began wrestling in the 5th grade. I wrestled all the way through high school and played several other varsity sports along side that, such as : swimming, diving, track and field. When I got out of H.S., I did a year of MMA training.

	Name	Reina Chaos
	Age	36
	Children	None
	Height	5' 2"
	Weight	135 lbs
	Weight before derby	115 lbs
	Started	2007
	Key Position	Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	4 hours
	Other Workout	Running- lots of it- marathons and such Crossfit- 2xweek
	Diet	None
	Laps in 5 minutes	I have no idea
	Previous Athletic Experience	Cheerleader and dance team high school and college Cross country runner in high school

	Name	Christian Mangle
	Age	24
	Children	2 cats, both 4 years old
	Height	5' 3”
	Weight	150 lbs
	Weight before derby	125 lbs
	Started	September 2013
	Key Position	Offensive & Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	5 to 9 hours, including league practices
	Other Workout	Cardio and weight training, circuits focused on strength training.
	Diet	Pescetarian
	Laps in 5 minutes	A basket of puppies! (I don't remember)
	Previous Athletic Experience	I did Aikido for three years during college.

	Name	SpartaKris
	Age	29
	Children	None
	Height	5' 4”
	Weight	I guesstimate around 185? I stopped weighing myself and started just basing it on how my clothes fit :)
	Weight before derby	215 lbs
	Started	2010
	Key Position	Defensive Blocker
	Practice time per week	4 to 6 Depending on home or travel season
	Other Workout	I owe these meatlegs to On Your Mark Training. I do mostly their strength classes and their trainers are great at knowing what's needed for derby world (which is really I guess everything).
	Diet	I allow myself to eat whatever, I've just started moderating the amounts I eat. I also force myself to eat a certain amount of veggies and protein everyday.
	Laps in 5 minutes
	Previous Athletic Experience	At various points through grade school and high school, I played basketball, volleyball, and did track and field.