Bluebonnet Plague

Rats, fleas on rats, amoebas on fleas on rats, squirrels, country music

"Employees Must Wash Hands" signs, face masks, Cipro, Neosporin, Lysol

Plague danced from the ages of 3 (her mom helped her put on tights) to 16. Her favorite dance teacher was her first, Miss Twilly.  Plague played softball for many seasons in elementary school. She started damaging her knees early in life by playing catcher. Even back then she sported blue eyeliner at her games although her face was totally obscured by the catcher's helmet.She tried basketball but practice conflicted with "The Cosby Show," so she quit (plus basketball sucks anyway).  Despite her homage to Texas in her derby name ('Bluebonnet' is the state flower), she probably would have found greater enjoyment participating in sports less popular in the south, like hockey.  After graduating from private Catholic girls school in Dallas, TX, Plague went to Chicago for college and played NCAA division 1 Soccer and travelled all over the US as part of Conference USA (thanks Title IX)!! She dabbled in yoga while in college and graduate school in New York and eventually became a 300-hr certified Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). She should probably return to a devout yoga practice as soon as she is done with derby to counteract the lopsidedness that comes from skating in one direction.

In addition to skating with the Manhattan Mayhem from 2006-2007 and the Queens of Pain from 2008-2009, Plague is proud to have started GGRD's Wall Street Traitors at the 2007 East Coast Extravaganza, taking the alias "Easy Spirit." She has managed the New York Shock Exchange on several occasions- all victorious- under the alias Lacey Overalls.

She served as co-captain of the Traitors in 2008 and played with the GGRD All Stars in 2008 and the first half of 2009.

BBP likes to keep everything moving, so her non-derby life is in transition. She has had sucess taking very good care of fine art over the last 7 years and now wants to move on to taking care of people. She has lived in New York for the last 11 years, still mourns the loss of New York's roller rinks  and loves the Central Park Dance Skaters Circle. Plague enjoys reading library books, speed-crafting and completing crosswords when not playing derby. She has exemplary manual skills, would prefer never  to cook or wash dishes and is extremely handy from sheer force of will to act against gender stereotype.