Featured RollerGirl, March 2007: Lydia Punch came to the Dolls for her third season in the league, and boy were we happy to have her join the team. Anyone who's watched this girl play knows that she's a force to be reckoned with on the track. She'll drop you in a heartbeat with her own signature style. And she's an incredible asset off the track too. Always willing to help out, pitch in, and give pointers, Lydia is someone we've always admired. She practices hard, plays tough, and is a sweetie off the track, and we're so happy she's a Doll!
Team: Dagger Dolls
Name: Lydia Punch
Number: Why is six afraid of seven!? 'Cause she's # 789
Status: Active
Awards & Accolades: 06-07 Interleague Team, 05-06 Interleague Team
Position You Play: Pivot / Blocker
Distinguishing Feature(s): A butt that won't quit ... knockin' you down!
Loves: black studded belts
Despises: ABBA
Favorite Song: "Call of the Wreckin Ball" by X
League History: Lydia has been skating with the MNRG since its first season. First as a Silver Bullet for the first season, and then as the Silver Bullets newly redesigned and renamed team the Rockits. Driven by a forceful curiousity of what it would be like to be on "the other side" she has joined up with the Dagger Dolls for season 3. She also skated in the interleagues games between Minnesota and the Carolina Roller Girls both home and away, and in the 2006 Dust Devil National Championship tournament in Tucson AZ.
More dirt about yourself:
Lydia Punch's parents met on the set of Saturday Night Fever. Her father was delivering John Travolta's cocaine while her mother was styling his wavy locks. Immediately, the two fell hopelessly in love and planned to raise a freaky disco-loving family.
However they had no idea that their first born child, a beautiful baby girl, would turn out to be the antithesis of disco - a side-snearing, stud-wearing, Aqua Net spraying punk rocker.
Their first indication of trouble should have been when Lydia started stapling her bell bottoms closed, or the day that she knocked down the family's prized disco ball - destroying it like a Cinco de Mayo piñata.
Thinking that all she needed was a little attention, Mr. and Mrs. Punch decided to take dear sweet Lydia to a Friday night roller disco. Approximately 12 minutes into the night, Lydia was forcibly ejected after beating the owner's son, a polyester wearing 8-year old, to a bloody pulp. All the poor kid wanted to do was shoot the funky duck.
The night could have been disastrous, but instead it changed Lydia's life. Not only did she realize her joy of skating, but also learned to channel her hatred of all things disco. To this day, before each bout, she locks herself into the janitor's closet and listens to "Dancing Queen" to amp herself up for derby destruction. Her parents are so proud.