Celia Graves...25 Questions: Stalking Your Favorite Rollergirls

My great Southern neighbors to the North (yeah, think about that one), Louisville is home to the Derby City Rollergirls!  Who the hell cares about horses, when you've got these bitches on skates claiming the derby name!!  Check them out at http://www.derbycityrollergirls.com/.

Name:  Celia Graves

Number: 6



Photo by Colin Johnson

1. What league(s) are you/have you been affiliated with?

Derby City Rollergirls for 5 years; Cincinnati Rollergirls for 1.

2. How long have you been skating (derby)?

6 Seasons

3. How did you discover roller derby?

I found an article in a local paper stating that a local team was forming.  I was at practice the next day!

4. List your most notable derby injuries?

Not anything exciting.  Just your basic sore knees and blisters, haha.

5. What was/is your oddest non-derby injury?

6th Grade.  Regular Friday night open skate.  I fractured my right wrist while participating in the backward/figure eight speed skate.  To this day, it still pops. ;)

6. How did you select your derby name and number?
Luckily, I was one of the first ones to register, so it wasn't too hard to find one not taken or similar to another one.  Honestly, there isn't any significant meaning behind my name.  I really didn't want anything gimmicky.  So, I went with Celia Graves.

7. When not being a derby badass, what do you do for work (company can be kept anonymous)?
I am a newborn hearing screen supervisor for two hospitals here in Louisville

8. What are some derby names that you find particularly funny/clever?
Some of my faves are Grrr Rawr Rawr, and Either Bunny

9. What is your non-derby first name?
If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

10. If you could have chosen your own non-derby name, what would it be?
Celia ;)

11. What are your non-derby hobbies/activities/hidden talents?
There are other things besides derby?

Photo by Tom Klubens

12. Do you collect anything, if so, what/why?
Yes, I collect buttons from the teams I've played and seen play.  I also collect programs from those games.  It's getting kind of ridiculous.

13. What was your favorite Holiday or Birthday present received as a kid?
Christmas when I was in the 5th grade.  I got my FIRST pair of speed skates from Santa.  Black RS1000's with pink fanjet wheels...

14. Who was the object of your most embarrassing teenage celebrity obsession?
All members of Duran Duran

15. Which celebrity would you like to be friends with?
Kristen Wiig.  Girl is crazy.

16. Do you have Tattoos? What, where, and why?
Yes, I have quite a few.  My most recent one is on my upper arm.  It is a tribute to my favorite movie, Xanadu.

17. What is something that most people don’t know, or would never guess about you?
My real name ;)

18. What movie(s) can you watch over and over and never get sick of?\
Napoleon Dynamite, Taladega Nights, Xanadu, and Wuthering Heights

19. I can't leave the house without...?
My kids.  It's against the law.

20. What would I find in your refrigerator right now?

A ton of bottled water and kid food.

Photo by Tom Klubens



21. What is your most over-used word or phrase?

"Stupid refs.  They need to learn the rules."

22. What is the last book you've read?

Wuthering Heights

23. Very first set of wheels?

Pink Fanjets

24. What is the biggest life hurdle that you have overcome?

Surviving almost 6 season of derby at my age.

25. List 3 things that you plan to accomplish in 2012?

1. World Domination.
2. Helping my team move up in the rankings.
3. World Domination.