“It’s been September since you’ve seen your Burn City Rollers in action, and we don’t start bouting again until February…so what can you do to get your derby fix in the meantime?

Obviously, you could come to our bake sale. January 28th, we will be selling the fruits of our labor to you, our fans, outside of Earth Fare in Auburn. Bonus – none of the baked goods will contain any artificial ingredients, so we’re (sort of) keeping you healthy too!

From 10AM to 3PM, you can see our smiling faces, hawking delicious pies and cupcakes and cake balls (oh my!)… and who knows what else might show up on the menu? Come visit us at 1550 Opelika Rd., and bring your appetite!”

We all make resolutions to start the new year – to lose weight, to get fit, to be more self-confident, to spend more time with the people we care about. What if there was a way to do all of those things at once?

So what is this miracle cure for all your New Year’s ambitions? Roller derby, naturally. What did you think we’d say?!

January 4, the Burn City Rollers will be having their first recruitment night of 2012. Anyone interested in working with our team is welcome to join us at the Skate Center from 7:30-9:30. We are currently seeking not only rollergirls but refs and volunteers for non-skating official positions!

Don’t know how to skate? That’s no excuse! We’ll teach you whatever you need to know. We have starter gear available for this practice, and we’ll work on basic skating skills as well as showing our guests what a real scrimmage looks like with our scrimmage-eligible players.

If you’ve been putting off joining our team, this is the best time of year to do it! New skaters that join in January will get the most out of our off-season endurance and strength training so that they can be ready to play as soon as possible. With our season starting in March, you don’t want to waste time – the sooner you get started training, the sooner you can join us on the track!

Mark the date on your calendar, folks: January 4, 2012. 7:30-9:30. 1221 Commerce Drive, Auburn, AL. We’ll see you there – at least we better!

We’ve got what you’ve all been waiting for! Burn City Rollers’ 2012 season is all-but finished, and we are ready to release it to our fans and friends today!

This season, BCR will be meeting new teams that you may not have had the pleasure of seeing us play. Some of those include Hattiesburg’s Hub City Derby Dames (with whom we’ve only ever played an away bout), the Savannah Derby Devils (our friends, whom we’ve wanted to meet on the track since last season!), and the Pensacola RollerGurlz. We will be rematching with Scenic City Roller Derby this year, as well as playing away bouts with Classic City of Athens, GA and Soul City of Augusta, GA at their own venues.

This season, we’ll offer you five home bouts and five away bouts, but with a little twist. Most of our home bouts are early in the season, running through July. That means that you won’t have to miss a single football game to keep up with Auburn’s other smashmouth sport! We’ll begin our season in March with a visit from Hub City, then will see Savannah in April, Pensacola in June and Scenic City in July. In May, we will offer you an as-yet undetermined bout, which will likely be skated for a charity benefit – and how can you beat supporting your local derby team and a worthy cause at the same time?

In the meantime, we are working hard in our off-season with our coach Trick Pony (formerly of TXRG and Derby City) so that we can be ready to give you the hard-hitting and athletic action you crave. We’ll be featuring some of your favorite BCR vets this season as well as some fresh meat you’ve never seen before. Toss out your old Chinese calendars – 2012 is the Year of the Derby Girl!