This April we hosted our first Spring Fling tournament! 29 April saw us fill Lightwaves with two official crews and four teams of skaters ready to fight it out in 20 minutes games. The Daffo-Kils took the win, beating the Not so Sweet Peas in the final 73-24. Thank you so much to everyone who […]
Saturday 5th November will see a 4 team WFTDA aligned tournament hosted by Wakey Wheeled Cats! Held at Lightwaves Sports Centre in Wakefield, the tournament will run from 9.15am to 3pm. This will be for rookie to advanced level skaters – you will need to have skated previously in at least 3 officiated scrims or games. […]
We are recruiting! Our next open days are set for the end of January. Come and learn how to skate and play roller derby and be part of a community of skaters who run the league. We are a women’s flat track roller derby team. We welcome transgender, non-binary, gender fluid and cisgender folks. There […]
We are super excited to say that we have some upcoming recruitment dates! They are: Saturday 24th July, 12-1 pm Tuesday 27th July, 6-8 pm Saturday 31st July, 12-1 pm Venue: Lightwaves Sports Centre, Lower York Street, Wakefield, WF1 3LJ. Parking is available at Trinity Walk shopping centre (opposite the sports centre). Come and see […]
Want to learn roller derby? We can get you trained up! Come and try one of our taster sessions and decide if this fun sport is for you! We can get you kit to try out with, then if you decide to join we can help you to source your own. Where: Lightwaves Sports Centre, […]
It’s been a memorable year at Wakey Wheeled Cats. Highlights include our British Champs games against a number of fabulous teams, our demos at the Moon festival in Wakefield in September, growing our membership with two intakes in January and June and our Nightmare Before Christmas themed scrim in November. We also celebrated our 10th […]
WFTDA Aligned Tournament ** Ticket sales are now closed. Sunday 24 November Location: Lightwaves Leisure Centre, Lower York Street, Wakefield Facebook event Is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween film or a Christmas film? Lets fight it out on track in a WFTDA aligned roller derby tournament! Join us as 6 teams of ten take […]
Wakey Wheeled Cats vs Roller Derby Leicester, Saturday 15th June Final score: Wakey 390 – Leicester 35 By Sian Steen On the 15th of June, Wakey Wheeled Cats travelled to Leicester, to take on Roller Derby Leicester at their home venue. The Cats started out strong, sending out Coral McNulty who took full advantage of a […]
By Sian Steen Main photo credit: Real Time Events Wakey Wheeled Cats 112 Grimsby Roller Derby 185 This weekend saw Wakefield’s roller derby league the Wakey Wheeled Cats play their first British Championships match of the 2019 season. The Cats played The Grim Reavers of Grimsby at the Cats home venue, Dewsbury Leisure Centre, but […]
Happy New Year everyone! Thank you to all the people we’ve skated with and against in 2018, everyone that came along to our skate marathon in September, all the photographers and all our lovely sponsors – Trinity Walk, JTF Vinyls, skates.co.uk and TRI-PT personal training & Sports Massage. And a huge, huge thank you to the refs […]