All Star Reserves End Season on a High

It’s been a year of ups and downs, wins and losses, comings and goings, but The Auld Reekie Roller Girls All Star Reserves played their last game of the season on Saturday, and what a game to end on.

They took on Cambridge, and were pretty excited to take the Oxbridge double after beating Oxford in January. However, Cambridge Rollerbillies were a tough bunch, and took an early lead which ARRG never recovered. Cambridge took the win, but it was a well fought game from both sides, and the ARRG Reserves were proud of their achievement.

Vice Captain Princess Die said

We knew this was going to be a tough game, but we were in good spirits going in and we played well, and fought hard for every single point we scored. We had two new players on the team for this game, Pummela and Trojan Virus and they both played incredibly well - we are so proud of them. We are really excited now to get into training and see what we can do next season.

The All Star Reserves team is a naturally more fluid one; new skaters come up the ranks and join the team, veteran players develop and move up to playing All Star games, and ex-reserve skaters return from time off for injury (or babies!) so there have been a lot of skaters on the team over the past year. The Reserves bench coach, Pope John Brawl, held a lovely little ceremony at the end of the game honouring all the past Captains, and the occasion was marked with a special photo shoot with the amazing Neil Wykes featuring all the past skaters. We also had a special range of merchandise created to mark the occasion by the amazing Interplanetary Print Syndicate, which has kitted us out in beautiful custom ARRG clothing!

It truly has been an amazing year for the Reserves, and it’s straight back to training now in preparation for the upcoming season. Keep an eye out for them though, as they are looking at a special off-season game in a few months, and they will be back as always to play in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on 8th August, this time in a super exciting game as they do the Derby Derby and take on Glasgow!

All photographs copyrighted to Neil Wkyes Photography