Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association announces Championship MVPs

The Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) is proud to announce the four skaters selected as “Most Valuable Players” during the recent 2009 WFTDA Championship Tournament, held Nov. 15 in Philadelphia, PA.

MVPs were selected by teams that participated in the championship match, between the Oly Rollers of Olympia, WA and the Texas Rollergirls of Austin, TX, as well as the bout for third and fourth place, between the Denver Roller Dolls and the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls, both of Denver, CO.

Congratulations to these four MVPs:

• Heffer (Oly Rollers)
• Rice Rocket (Texas Rollergirls)
• Gaby “Fonda Payne” Begeman (Denver Roller Dolls)
• Whipity Pow (Rocky Mountain Roller Girls)

The championship tournament capped a year of surprising upsets and firsts for WFTDA, including the expansion of regional qualifying tournaments to include North and South Central divisions, which resulted in the largest tournament pool in WFTDA history.

In their first year of tournament play, the Oly Rollers’ Cosa Nostra Donnas not only entered the national tournament as the No. 1 seed from the Western Division, the league won the championship with a 178-101 victory over longtime derby matriarchs, the Texas Rollergirls.