Member of the Month – July 2009

T. Rex Ya Face

Coach T. Rex & her 2 slices

What her teammates had to say:

As Head of the Merch Committee, T has been a key player with ordering, inventorying, storing, and researching all of the Merch. She’s always ready to fill an order and haul the suitcases wherever they’re needed.
As Director of Training, she is instrumental in the organization of keeping the DDG knowledgeable in the new 4.0 rule set, she’s the attendance nazi and is always ready to inform a skater/ref as to what they’re status is, she is an key player in bouts by making sure that the skaters are where they’re supposed to be on the track, and as a Coach, she’s always willing to demonstrate a play or an idea to benefit both an individual skater or the whole League.
The DDG would be lost without her and thus she should be recognized for all of her hard work.

I think I speak for most of us when I say that T Rex’s involvement in the DDG continues to amaze me! We all consider the DDG an extension of our own family but it’s easy to let life get in the way and when it does, derby takes a back seat. Its so easy to lose motivation when you cannot be on skates for whatever reason! She happens to have THE BEST reason – being pregnant with her first baby!! Through it all – she has never faltered. She has been at every meeting, coached many practices solo and still managed to ‘teach’! She has travelled with the team and she has been an active bench coach – one that we would be lost without. I don’t know where she has found the energy, especially as she gets close to the end! Its nothing but impressive. Now hurry up and have that baby….we’re tired of seeing you on the sidelines and ready to have you back on the track!!