our home team is getting new jerseys this year (it rotates each year) so I had to fill out the database with my size, number and name.
Back in the proverbial day, a lot was made about YOUR DERBY NAME IS AN ALTER EGO FOR YOUR AWESOMENESS. The Two Evils database was religiously checked for duplicates and whatnot.
I had no personal connection to "Queen Kicktoria". I liked how it sounded and it was available. (Other names I liked: "Helena Handbasket", "Chick Palahniuk", "Nom de Guerre"*.) It's not my "alter ego", it's just a nickname that I use on the track.
That's why, for about a day or so, I really agonized about going back to skating under a variant of my real last name - the original spelling of my (married) last name, which had an umlaut in it.
BECAUSE UMLAUT.
Eventually I decided to keep my derby name. I'm Queenie. I wear crowns. I shriek. I give a royal wave during team intros. That's who I am now.
Travel season, who knows.
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*and if I hadn't gotten married (or kept my maiden name), "The Wreck of the Whitney Fitzgerald"
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