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Pink Panzer warming up before a United Front bout. Photo by Novella Photography; May 16, 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n

Pink Panzer #88\u00a0(she\/her\/hers)<\/em> was a cofounder of PVRD, with Bazooka Joe. She skated from 2006 to 2018, playing on every PVRD team at some point. She also began coaching PVRD’s junior program in 2013 and continues to this day.<\/p>\n

Read her interview below!<\/p>\n

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Do you remember the first time you saw roller derby?<\/p>\n

It was one of my best friends, she used to live here in the Valley, but then she had to move away to Providence. We were chatting and I was like \u201cWhat\u2019s new?\u201d and she was like, \u201cI just joined roller derby\u2026I don\u2019t really know what it is, just gonna see how it goes.\u201d It was so weird, because she was this mild-mannered, middle school teacher, and like visualizing, growing up watching roller derby in the \u201870s and \u201880s, I\u2019m like \u201cthat\u2019s not you, I don\u2019t understand.\u201d And she was like \u201cWell, I was at the rink and these people approached me and were like \u201cYou should join us!\u201d\u201d\u00a0And we went to our first bout and we thought it was so cool!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How did you choose your name?<\/p>\n

Pink Panzer, a panzer is a tank and it was a play on Pink Panther\u2026\u00a0Pink Panzer was not my first choice. Immediately, I had the brilliant idea that I wanted to be Punky Bruiser, because I grew up watching Punky Brewster, but I was like \u201cI got it!\u201d and then literally like a day later was like \u201cOh no, that\u2019s already taken. Of course. Of course it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

I, to this day, still have people who call me \u201cPink Panther,\u201d all the time, and I\u2019m like, \u201cNo, it\u2019s Panzer.\u201d And I remember a conversation where someone was like \u201cOh, I get your name! It\u2019s like Pants-Her.\u201d I don\u2019t know if at that point they had just not seen my name on my uniform, and I was like \u201cAnd have you ever seen me do that?\u201d So, you know, lots of times people don\u2019t get it, so it\u2019s super fun when, you know, someone does get it. It\u2019s satisfying, I guess.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did you play any sports other than derby?<\/p>\n

Right, so I\u2019d played soccer through college and after moving out here, I wasn\u2019t playing any sports, but I knew that [derby] was something that I would enjoy. Believe it or not, I play sports, I enjoy playing them, I like the teams and everything, but I\u2019m not sporty.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I started soccer, it was the 1980s, you know, and at that time, where I lived, there were teams for boys and there were teams for girls at my age and everything. I know now sometimes they\u2019re mixed at the younger ages, but I mean there were so many kids playing at that point. So, growing up, playing soccer I had been fairly good. Then we moved, and where we moved, it just hadn\u2019t been as big of a sport, so literally when I was in 8th grade at the school, there wasn\u2019t a girls\u2019 team to play on, so I played on the boys\u2019 team. And it went, you know, I was a bit starry-eyed, but I don\u2019t remember there being an issue. I didn\u2019t get to play just because I showed up, I got to play because I was performing and I was fulfilling a need the team had and I was doing it well, so I got to play. The next year, when I started high school, there wasn\u2019t a girls\u2019 team. So I had played with these boys, who now were moving up and everything, and what to do? Well, I went to an all-girls school, and we had a brother school, and it was like\u2026the state rules were that if your school doesn\u2019t offer the sport that you want to play, you get to choose the school you want to go out for. In my head, it wasn\u2019t political, it was the obvious choice. Here\u2019s the guys I\u2019ve played with and I know them, and I\u2019ll go play with them, that\u2019s what I should do, it\u2019s our brother school. So, I went and tried out. I thought I did alright, I didn\u2019t get on the team, and hearing from them, it was because I was a girl. You know, what can you do? Start your own team. So we started a women\u2019s team at school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Transcribed from FaceTime interview on March 31, 2021. My recording of the interview broke in some places, so this is the best transcript I have, but it is by no means complete.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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