Dread Pirate Rollers

The origins of the Dread Pirate Rollers began in 2011 when two skaters from Mandurah, Soozy Slugworth and Shinobi Sellty, decided that it would be great to have a league closer to home. The feverish search for like-minded souls began and after seeking expressions of interest, they held their first training session in a carpark next to an outdoor skate park in May 2011. WA Roller Derby from Perth lent a helping hand by taking us under their wings as we built on our fresh meat skills and continued to seek better training locations, as we upgraded first to a small room at Billy Dower Youth Centre and then to a community hall in Secret Harbour – a space still not big enough to lay a regulation track down! We NSO-ed and volunteered our hearts out at WARD events and dreamt of one day being able to battle it out on the track ourselves.