Molly Jensen
(aka “Stone Cold StunHer”)
Everett
By day, Jensen, 26, helps mold young minds at Bright Horizons Early Education and Preschool in Everett. After school, she’s a blocker and backup jammer on Seattle’s Rat City Rollergirl derby team. The Port Angeles native played sports through school, including college volleyball. She started skating five years ago by holding onto the wall and just hoping not to fall. She’s heading with the Rat City All Stars to an international tournament next week.
What are you wearing?
Always in my Seahawks gear. Go Hawks!
Three things in your derby gear bag:
Deodorant. Chap-stick. Ibuprofen.
If you could slam around the rink with anyone in history (or a celebrity) who would it be?
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. He is the definition of hard work. He started from the bottom and through hard work and determination has made it to the top — kinda like me. I feel he would understand and agree with the hard work and dedication it takes to compete at the highest level of your trade or sport.
What do you want people to know (or not know) about roller derby?
It is a real sport, and we are real athletes. We train a minimum of 10 hours a week on skates, on top of off-skates training and footage review.
What’s the funniest or craziest or best thing anybody ever said to you?
Any time someone tells me how proud they are of me for pushing my limits, following my dreams, and becoming the happy person I am today.
Worst nightmare?
Having ugly babies. (I wish I was kidding.)
People would be shocked to know …
I am responsible for shaping young minds of the future.
People think I am super girly but I am really as athletic as they come.
What’s your most proud moment?
Becoming an Auntie!
One thing you (and others) wish you’d stop doing/saying?
Literally. I LITERALLY say it all the time, and now have others around me doing the same.
Best year of your life?
This past year: Moving to bigger opportunities, teaching, skating at the highest level I can, surrounded by loving family and friends.
You’re watching TV. Where are you and what are you drinking?
Flavored tonic water… Boring I know. Sometimes I throw in a Bud Lite.
Pet peeve?
Loud eaters/drinkers.
Guilty pleasure?
Anything chocolate, and sappy chick flicks.
— Andrea Brown, Herald writer
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Outside the classroom, this sweet kindergarten teacher is Stone Cold StunHer #rollerderby http://t.co/mMhg5lvqfF pic.twitter.com/gpO7EddAHb
— Andrea Brown (@reporterbrown) September 1, 2015
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