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At the 2014 Roller Derby World Cup, she played for Team New Zealand. [2] Trample transferred to the Victorian Roller Derby League (VRDL) in 2016, moving to Melbourne in Australia. This represented a significant step up in level of play from Pirate City, and in 2017 the league won the WFTDA Championships, the first non-U.S. league to do so ...
RollerJam was the brainchild of Knoxville, Tennessee-based television writers Ross K. Bagwell Sr. and Stephen Land.Land, a boyhood fan of roller derby, was inspired to bring the sport back to television by an obituary for roller derby legend Joan Weston that he had read in The New York Times in May 1997, and shared his idea with Bagwell, his mentor, who gave him a positive response. [2]
A five-woman roller skating team, the Pittsburgh Pitts, sets out to strike a rock 'em, sock 'em blow for womanhood in a race with an all-male team: April 24, 1978 1: 2 "Come to Me, My Melancholy Mongo" Her teammates secretly arrange for lonely, dateless Mongo to have a night of romance with the team's owner-coach. May 1, 1978 1: 3 "The Birth of ...
Gotham Girls Roller Derby: Texas Rollergirls: B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls: Bloody Mary (Texas) [19] 2014: 31 October – 2 November: WFTDA Championships [20] Nashville, Tennessee: Gotham Girls Roller Derby: Rose City Rollers: B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls: Loren Mutch (Rose) 2015 6–8 November WFTDA Championships [21] St Paul, Minnesota: Rose City ...
Rollergirls is a 2006 A&E Network reality show examining the personalities, antics and motivations of the women involved with the Austin, Texas, Lonestar Rollergirls roller derby league. According to their website, the league was founded in 2001 and is run as a "skater-owned and operated" company.
The league was founded in May 2010 by a group of women, including Kim Underwood (known as "Gogo Tenenbomb"). They lacked skating experience, but were inspired by the movie Whip It . [ 2 ] It played its first public bout in June 2011, against Harrisburg Area Roller Derby 's Fallout Femmes, [ 3 ] and was accepted into the Women's Flat Track Derby ...
The Rules of Flat Track Roller Derby [66] [67] is the ruleset developed and published by the WFTDA, discussed and agreed by the WFTDA Rules Committee which features both WFTDA and Junior Roller Derby Association (JRDA) members. [68] Updates are published each January. The WFTDA ruleset is used by all WFTDA leagues, as well as MRDA and JRDA ...
Cajun Rollergirls or CRG, is a women's flat-track roller derby league based in Houma, Louisiana. Founded in 2008, Cajun Rollergirls is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). [1] The team represents Lafourche, St. Mary, and Terrebonne parishes. [2] As of 2019 the primary home game venue is Aggie's Skate Connection in Houma ...