La Petite Mort and Wile E. Peyote

La Petite Mort (Morty), the big 0 a.k.a Jennifer Savaglio:

Morty has been skating since childhood, and first discovered derby by attending a Rat City Rollergirls Season 2 bout back in June 2006. Completely obsessed with the sport from that moment on, she joined Seattle’s Potential Fresh Meat Squad (PFM) in preparation for the RCRG tryouts that November. She was lucky enough to be picked up by the Throttle Rockets, of whom she has been captain for two seasons, and has just finished her third season with RCRG. Very active with the Fresh Meat on the league, she enjoys nothing more than trying to make the new girls feel at home and teaching them the basics of skating and derby. She has also taught classes on writing lineups, strategy, and motivating skaters at Rollercon.

Jennifer decided to open the store while on the PFM squad in an effort to bring a much needed service to the many rollergirls in the Pacific Northwest. She began by hunting down the experts in her area on speed skating and distribution/ wholesaling, as well as picking the brains of the skate manufacturers around the country that have been around what seems like forever. She then jumped in the deep end mounting skates after having four different industry professionals teach her how they did it. She also made a concerted effort to try out every product she could get her hands on.

Three years later, she is considered one of the best (and by best meaning one of the only) DERBY skate mounters. In fact, she pioneered a mounting style geared toward derby that is very popular with some of the most talented derby skaters. She regularly teaches classes on gear, but never stops asking questions, learning and testing the latest products. She has taught her gear and pain management classes for the past 3 years at Rollercon, to much praise from the students, and has taught roughly 10 other leagues privately. Her goal is to teach the skaters enough about their gear, the products available and how to decide what is best for them so they do not empty their pockets unnecessarily. See her syllabi for gear and pain management here:

Wilie E. Peyote, 21g, a.k.a Sarah O'Donoghue:

Originally from Ottawa, Canada, Wile is in her third season at Rat City as a Sockit Wench and in her second season as a Rat City All Star. She discovered derby in the summer of 2006 and joined the Potential Fresh Meat squad shortly thereafter. She was picked up by Rat City in November, 2006, and it wasn’t long before the All Stars added her to their roster. She has played extensively throughout the country (and Canada), and is known for her speed and agility as a jammer, and tenacity as a blocker. She has even been compared to a Jack Russel Terrier in her determination and ignorance of her petite size, as she fearlessly goes after much larger skaters, although part of her sports prowess and fire is from a life spent around hockey (again, blame Canada). She also serves as Rat City’s Interleague Coordinator.

Sarah is the other business half of Fast Girl, and at least halfway responsible for the idea to open a store. She handles the finances, and takes excellent care of the online customers. She will call and double check orders and try to save customer’s dollars by seeing if the item can be shipped more economically. She also loves to fit customers in skates, and is known to take every boot out of every box in the store for a customer to try every possible configuration. She is constantly striving to improve derby products and tests them often in order to give thorough feedback to the manufacturers.