# Tui Lyon

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{{short description|Australian roller derby player}}
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| nationality    = Australian
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| birth_place    = [Tallangatta](/source/Tallangatta), Australia
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| club           = '''[WFTDA](/source/Women's_Flat_Track_Derby_Association)'''<br />[Victorian Roller Derby League](/source/Victorian_Roller_Derby_League) (2008-10)<br />[Tiger Bay Brawlers](/source/Tiger_Bay_Brawlers) (2010-2012)<br />Victorian Roller Derby League (2012-16)<br />[Angel City Derby](/source/Angel_City_Derby) (2016-present)
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'''Tui Lyon''' is an [Australian](/source/Australian_people) [roller derby](/source/roller_derby) player.

Born in [Tallangatta](/source/Tallangatta) in [Victoria, Australia](/source/Victoria%2C_Australia),<ref name="smith">{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Georgia|title=Lyon rolls in as tournament MVP in Manchester|url=https://www.bordermail.com.au/story/5250772/lyon-rolls-in-as-tournament-mvp-in-manchester/|accessdate=2 May 2018|work=The Border Mail|date=26 February 2018}}</ref> Lyon began skating with the [Victorian Roller Derby League](/source/Victorian_Roller_Derby_League) in [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne) in 2008. In 2010, she moved to [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff) in Wales, where she played for the [Tiger Bay Brawlers](/source/Tiger_Bay_Brawlers), then she returned to Victoria in 2012. At the [2014 Roller Derby World Cup](/source/2014_Roller_Derby_World_Cup), Lyon played for [Team Australia](/source/Team_Australia_(roller_derby)). She also became a coach of the [Australian men's roller derby team](/source/Australia_national_men's_roller_derby_team), the Wizards of Aus, and was their bench coach at the 2016 [Men's Roller Derby World Cup](/source/Men's_Roller_Derby_World_Cup).<ref name="frye">{{cite news|last1=Frye|first1=Andy|title=Off-Track Banter: Tui Lyon|url=http://www.derbycentral.net/2016/04/off-track-banter-tui-lyon/|accessdate=2 May 2018|work=Derby Central|date=27 April 2016}}</ref>

While Victoria played roller derby at the highest level, Lyon found the expense of regularly travelling to the United States to compete to be too high.  As a result, in January 2016 she moved to [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles) to join the [Angel City Derby Girls](/source/Angel_City_Derby_Girls).<ref name="frye" /> She soon became captain of the Angel City Hollywood Scarlets. She again competed for Australia at the [2018 Roller Derby World Cup](/source/2018_Roller_Derby_World_Cup), at which the team took the silver medal, and Lyon received the [Most Valuable Player](/source/Most_Valuable_Player) award.<ref name="smith" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Angel of the Month, February 2018: Tui Lyon|url=http://angelcityderby.com/angel-of-the-month-february-tui-lyon/|website=Angel City Derby|accessdate=2 May 2018}}</ref>

Lyon specialises in playing as a pivot. Six feet tall, she has described her playing style as trying to embody the concept "stay low, get lower".<ref name="frye" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=King|first1=Kevin|title=Roller Derby World Cup MVP skated into Winnipeg over the weekend to help grow sport|url=http://winnipegsun.com/news/local-news/roller-derby-world-cup-mvp-skated-into-winnipeg-over-the-weekend-to-help-grow-sport|accessdate=2 May 2018|work=Winnipeg Sun|date=25 March 2018}}</ref>

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Category:Sportswomen from Victoria (state)

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