What’s better on a summer night than roller derby? How about a roller derby exhibition bout combined with a night of racing. On August 4, the Charlotte Roller Girls will hold an exhibition bout at Lowe’s Motor Speedway during the track’s weekly Summer Shootout Series. It will mark the first time in history that the Charlotte Roller Girls will bout at the world famous speedway.

“Race cars have four wheels and roller girls skate with eight. I guess that means roller derby is double the excitement,” joked league president Cress Barnes a.k.a. Lucy Kwipment. “Racing and roller derby have a lot in common. Both turn left and the leaders try to lap the field. The fans are in for a real treat.”

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The Charlotte Roller Girls very own Grace McKinney a.k.a. Emmylou Harass will be a guest on Power 98’s The Morning Madhouse radio show on July 30 at 9:00 a.m. The show airs on WPEG 97.9 FM and is streamed live at www.power98fm.com.

Think of the Charlotte Roller Girls and words like action-packed and hard-hitting often come to mind. But there is a different, softer side to these devoted athletes. Dedicated to the local community, the organization volunteers its time and contributes a portion of its home bout proceeds to local charities.

“Under our tough exteriors we have hearts of gold,” said league president Cress Barnes a.k.a Lucy Kwipment. “We take great pride in making a positive impact on the Charlotte community – our community.”

Each season, the Charlotte Roller Girls recognize one local charity as its main beneficiary. In 2009, it selected A Child’s Place, a local organization which works to erase the impact of homelessness on children and their education.

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The Charlotte Roller Girls will be at PRIDE Charlotte on Saturday, July 25. Be sure to stop by our display to say hello! The event runs from 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and is being held at Gateway Village, 800 W. Trade Street in Charlotte. For complete details, please visit http://www.pridecharlotte.com/

On Sunday, the Charlotte Roller Girls’ 2009 intra-league season got underway at the Grady Cole Center. In the first of this four round championship, Charlotte’s two teams, the Block’em Sock’em Rollers (BSR) and Cockpit Candies (CC), faced off. The two teams battled head-to-head for three periods but in the end it was BSR who took the victory 92-67.

From the start, the players’ intensity made it apparent that this championship was serious business. BSR’s initial jammer, Rosie Cheeks, grabbed a quick four points over CC’s jammer BoToxic Bruz’her. Scoring jams by Puncher P. Hole, Pollyannarchy and Devlin Syder allowed BSR to pull out to a 15 point advantage. It was a lead BSR would never relinquish.

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