Lawyers have another outlet for their competitive drives: hard-charging roller derby. The sport is seeing a revival across the country with an all-female incarnation. When Heather Youree morphs into her derby persona, Electra Cuter, she uses the same nervous energy for a bout as she does for a trial. "It gets me to the point where I am feeling, 'OK, I'm ready to kick ass,'" says the assistant district attorney, who co-captains the Dragon Divas with criminal defense attorney Cathy Compton, aka Nita Spankin.
September 15, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
It was that same feeling of edgy anticipation that Hays County Assistant District Attorney Heather Youree got before going to trial.
She knew she had done everything she could to prepare and was ready to do battle — physically, mentally, even spiritually. She paced back and forth, mulling over the game plan, strategizing in her mind how she could win.
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