pe.com | For Colton High Grad Duron, Roller Derby is Irresistible

Larissa Duron (Staff photo: Jim Alexander)

 BY JIM ALEXANDER

STAFF WRITER

jalexander@PE.com

LOS ANGELES — Most people who go to an event for the first time and are hooked come back again and again as spectators.

Larissa Duron, a Colton High graduate, took a different approach. A friend took her to an LA Derby Dolls roller derby bout in 2006, and when she got hooked she decided to put on the skates and pads and go join them.

“There was the sport of it, and it was a woman-run organization,” she recalls. “There were girls out there, all ages and backgrounds, who were just doing something that was completely outside the box of any type of sport.

“I know back in the day there was roller derby, but there was just something rare about it that made me think, ‘This is for me.’ ”

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