VICTORY escaped Wakey Wheeled Cats in the dying minutes of their away game against Harrogate’s Spa Town Roller Girls on Saturday. In a heart-stopping, nail-biting game, the two teams showed themselves to be all but equal in skill and determination in one of the Cats’ closest games to date. Wakey were able to gain an […]
The Cats will proudly be wearing their new white team uniform on Saturday the 16th May at their first away game of the season competing against Spa Town Roller Girls in Harrogate. Funding received through The People’s Postcode Trust, a grant-giving trust funded by players of People’s Postcode Lottery, allowed the Cats current team members and a number of future recruits, once they have graduated from the new starters ‘Kittens’ programme, to […]
Wakey Wheeled Cats showed grit and determination in the face of their toughest opposition yet in their first game of the year on Saturday. The Cats lost by their biggest ever points deferential in a physical match which saw them overwhelmed by Middlesbrough Milk Rollers’ (MMR) ‘b’ team, the Rising Rollers. MMR came out strong, […]
Wakey Wheeled Cats are excited to announce a new captaincy team ahead of the first game of the league’s season, which takes place on Saturday April 25. The Cats would also like to pay tribute to outgoing captain, Kirsty ‘Fu’ Quinn, who has led the league’s travel team into battle since its very first games […]
25 April 2015 Venue: Huddersfield Sports Centre Doors: 15:00
This year the Cats are happy to announce that the chosen charity we will be supporting is Pinderfields Burn’s Club. The club was established to help children face the challenges of suffering a burn injury, in an atmosphere of fun, support and rehabilitation resulting in an improvement in care and experience. It was developed in […]
The Cats will be taking on the Middlesbrough Milk Rollers (B) MMR in our opening game of the year. The event will be taking place at Huddersfield Sports Centre on Saturday the 25th April; Doors will be open from 3pm. Before the main game starts there will be a ‘first bite’ game showcasing new female […]
We are very excited to announce that Rogue Runner of London Roller Girls and Team England will be delivering a five hour jammer focused skills bootcamp right here in Wakefield. The bootcamp is available to intermediate and advanced level female skaters and will be split into two parts consisting of four hours on skates bootcamp, followed by one hour of […]
Recently our very own Anne Body managed to secure us Cats funding from Sports England, who invest in community sports in a variety of ways, including the This Girl Can Campaign to increase sports participation in young women. With recent sporting events coming to the region such as the Tour de France and with the […]
CATS TAKE PART IN FIRST BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS Wakefield’s original roller derby league, Wakey Wheeled Cats, has been invited to compete in the first ever British Roller Derby Championships. Roller derby began in the UK in 2007, and the Cats were one of the first 20 leagues to form in Britain. The Championships mark a defining […]