It’s been a memorable year at Wakey Wheeled Cats. Highlights include our British Champs games against a number of fabulous teams, our demos at the Moon festival in Wakefield in September, growing our membership with two intakes in January and June and our Nightmare Before Christmas themed scrim in November. We also celebrated our 10th […]
WFTDA Aligned Tournament ** Ticket sales are now closed. Sunday 24 November Location: Lightwaves Leisure Centre, Lower York Street, Wakefield Facebook event Is The Nightmare Before Christmas a Halloween film or a Christmas film? Lets fight it out on track in a WFTDA aligned roller derby tournament! Join us as 6 teams of ten take […]
Wakey Wheeled Cats vs York Minxters, Sunday 4th October, York College, York Final score: Wakey 124 – York 157 By Sian Steen On the 4th August the Wakey Wheeled Cats travelled to York to take on hosts York Minxters in their final champs game of the season. The Cats had a strong start with Coral […]
Wakey Wheeled Cats vs Roller Derby Leicester, Saturday 15th June Final score: Wakey 390 – Leicester 35 By Sian Steen On the 15th of June, Wakey Wheeled Cats travelled to Leicester, to take on Roller Derby Leicester at their home venue. The Cats started out strong, sending out Coral McNulty who took full advantage of a […]
Wakey Wheeled Cats v Deathrow Hull, Saturday, March 30, 2019, at Sirius Academy, Hull. Wakey Wheeled Cats 162 – Deathrow Hull 219 By Sian Steen The Wakey Wheeled Cats took to the track again at the end of March, this time against Deathrow Hull at the Hull teams home venue, Sirius Academy. First line up […]
Photo credit: Real Time Events Words: Dan Millea, Helen Lindley A decade. It doesn’t feel that long! Roller Derby is so fun you don’t notice the time flying past as fast as some of those amazing jammers. April 14th marks our 10 year anniversary and what started out as a small group of friends with […]
By Sian Steen Main photo credit: Real Time Events Wakey Wheeled Cats 112 Grimsby Roller Derby 185 This weekend saw Wakefield’s roller derby league the Wakey Wheeled Cats play their first British Championships match of the 2019 season. The Cats played The Grim Reavers of Grimsby at the Cats home venue, Dewsbury Leisure Centre, but […]
We are hosting the first game of our 2019 Champs Season at Dewsbury sports centre on 23 February. Join us for an action-packed day of roller derby with Roller Derby Leicester taking on Deathrow Hull and Wakey Wheeled Cats playing against Grimsby Grim Reavers. There will also be plenty of stalls selling merch, vinyls and other goodies […]
Happy New Year everyone! Thank you to all the people we’ve skated with and against in 2018, everyone that came along to our skate marathon in September, all the photographers and all our lovely sponsors – Trinity Walk, JTF Vinyls, skates.co.uk and TRI-PT personal training & Sports Massage. And a huge, huge thank you to the refs […]
Ever fancied getting your skates on and joining one of the fastest growing sports in the world? We can train you to skate and show you how to become a British Championship skater in Roller Derby, all in the merry city of Wakefield! Banish the winter blues and keep fit while not even realising it! […]