{"id":14567,"date":"2017-09-05T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14567"},"modified":"2017-09-15T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:18:03","slug":"camosun-student-gets-hardcore-with-eves-of-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/09\/05\/camosun-student-gets-hardcore-with-eves-of-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun student gets hardcore with Eves of Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Camosun first-year Biology student Anna Jessop isn\u2019t hard at work studying at the Lansdowne campus, she goes by the name of Chip n\u2019 Flail and races around a track trying to avoid injuries as a roller derby player.<\/p>\n

Jessop joined the local roller derby league Eves of Destruction (EOD)\u2014who are playing their season finale bout on September 16\u2014in April 2017 and by June had already been rostered on team The Hard Cores.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe spring was a lot of watching the teams and trying to get to know everyone,\u201d she says about her early days with EOD. \u201cIn June, 11 of us were rostered to play on The Hard Cores, and we started scrimmaging with the rest of them and got to know everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessop was hurt in a scrimmage before a game in August and says that there have been a lot of injuries this summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to see people get hurt,\u201d she says. \u201cAlthough we\u2019ve been reassured this is not a very regular thing, the amount of injuries there has been, it\u2019s been a little scary to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun student Anna Jessop plays roller derby when she’s not hitting the books (photo by Adam Marsh\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jessop says that the derby community has become a necessary part of her life, adding that players in the league are very supportive and kind to one another.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to going back to school this year having this community now; I think it will really change how I actually focus on school,\u201d she says. \u201cThis summer I\u2019ve been super addicted to derby. I\u2019m afraid whether or not I can handle both, so I\u2019ve looked for classes not in the evening, just so I can attend derby.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessop says that there has been a growth in the sport this year, and that The Hard Cores didn\u2019t even exist a little while ago, since EOD just didn\u2019t need that many teams. She says that there\u2019s also no shortage of new girls joining the league, who are known as Raw Meat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just had one of the biggest groups of people join The Hard Cores,\u201d she says, \u201cbut right behind us is also the biggest Raw Meat group that they\u2019ve ever had.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessop says that EOD also recently joined the Women\u2019s Flat Track Derby Association\u2014the international governing association for women\u2019s flat track roller derby\u2014and that she\u2019s really excited to play official derby on a travelling team.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that we are one of the official teams, it\u2019s not just a community thing\u2014we actually get to get some cred,\u201d she says, adding that in July they played their first official game, against Vancouver\u2019s Anarchy Angels (the Angels won, 150 to 130).<\/p>\n

Jessop says that the EOD teams have been practicing a lot for the upcoming season finale. She says that the Belles of the Brawl and the Margarita Villains, the two house teams who are playing the season finale bout, have been practicing in different ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got different strategies and they do keep things from each other,\u201d she says. \u201cThey\u2019ll do lots of things to prepare; it\u2019s more than just strategy and working out.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Jessop won\u2019t give any specific details, just saying, \u201cYeah, there are things that they are working on. We\u2019re doing some crazy things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jessop says that some girls went to the July RollerCon conference in Las Vegas for workshops on strategies, skating, and putting together derby outfits. \u201cIt\u2019s a whole different thing, putting on that derby persona,\u201d she says. \u201cStudent by day, derby girl by night is a fun thing to do and be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Camosun first-year Biology student Anna Jessop isn\u2019t hard at work studying at the Lansdowne campus, she goes by the name of Chip n\u2019 Flail and races around a track trying to avoid injuries as a roller derby player. Jessop joined the local roller derby league Eves of Destruction (EOD)\u2014who are playing their season finale […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","category-september-5-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14570,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14567\/revisions\/14570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}