Pia Mess

Pia Mess has become legendary in the modern era of women's flat track roller derby. She joined Seattle's Rat City Rollergirls in 2004 as a new skater and became the league MVP her rookie season. As team captain she led The Sockit Wenches to the league championship in 2006. That same year she was named MVP of The Sockit Wenches and was also the entire league's top scoring jammer. Pia was also instrumental in helping the Rat City All-Star team secure a second place finish in the 2007 National Championship Tournament.

In 2008 Pia relocated to the San Francisco/Oakland area where she is now skating in her eighth season, currently with the WFTDA-affiliated Silicon Valley Roller Girls, both as a player and coach. As a coach, Pia is perhaps best known for her legendary endurance practices; a grueling mixture of non-stop skating drills, Plyometrics/Tabata and strategy. These practices have become affectionately known throughout her league as "Pia's Puke Practice".

Equally skilled as a jammer, pivot and blocker, Pia Mess has received multiple awards from all three leagues that she has skated for in her career. She is known throughout the derby community as one of the most strategically-minded players to ever strap on skates. Pia is a member of the prestigious 2012 Atom Wheels All-Stars, and is sponsored by Atom Wheels. She is one of the few skaters to be named to both the 2011 and 2012 Atom Wheels All-Stars teams. Pia was also named the WFTDA Featured Skater of the Month for March 2011. The story of Pia Mess was featured on the original Canadian Broadcast Television Series, "TV Made Me Do It". Pia also appeared in the acclaimed documentary feature film, "Blood On The Flat Track: The Rise Of The Rat City Rollergirls".

Over the past three years Pia has served as a guest coach and led weekend derby boot camp clinics throughout the United States, as well as Internationally. In 2010,2011,2012 she was invited by the Stuttgart Valley Rollergirls (as the only coach from the United States) to lead Germany's first-ever boot camp clinic. The clinic was attended by skaters from 17 leagues in 12 different countries and was deemed a huge success.Pia has also donated her time to help coach at the first-ever Junior Con training camp (held in 2010 in Seattle), helping to mold the next generation of women's flat track roller derby players."

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