Oxford roller derby player 'proud' of representation at World Cup
It was her first time appearing in the Roller Derby World Cup, as well as her Team Chinese Nations' debut."I grew up in the UK, but we had people who were [from] places like North America, New Zealand, Australia."She said they had been talking via Discord to plan their strategies and make arrangements.Six of the skaters are based in the UK and managed to meet and get to know each other thanks to the Oxford team who were able to host a training session for them. "To be in a team just with other people of the Chinese diaspora was really meaningful for me because roller derby is such a supportive community in terms of representation," Ms Caswell-Sou said."It's been an incredible honour and opportunity to showcase my skills in the sport while proudly representing my British-born Chinese heritage on a global platform."
Ms Caswell-Sou said they had had no expectations."We were ranked pretty much at the bottom because they had no stats to go by at all. "But what was really good was we won one game, so we beat South Africa."She also spoke of their "exciting" match against West Indies and the "incredible" game against the Fuego Latino team.Her team finished 37th in the competition."Which I think is really good going for a team who only had one hour of training together the day before it all kicked off," she said.The team also won the Spirit Award for the entire tournament "in bringing our team's energy, enthusiasm and amazing sense of fun to the track".
Ms Caswell-Sou said many people had started to join the team after the event, which she said was "really nice to see"."It says something that in our team this time around we weren't able to have any skaters actually from say China or Hong Kong or Macau because it's not quite as big a thing," she said."But what we really hope is by having participated in the World Cup we're representing our culture and we're able to make people more aware of the sport as well."
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