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National Roller Derby League (NRDL) – 1995–2004; initially promoted as Roller Derby Inc.; current site promotes the San Francisco Bay Bombers, etc. American Roller Derby League (ARDL) – 1997–2003; Owned by Tim Patten; briefly promoted as American Inline Roller Skating Derby League; Promoted the Bay City Bombers
Windy City Rollers is a women's flat-track roller derby league located in Chicago, Illinois.Founded by Juanna Rumbel (Elizabeth Gomez) and Sister Sledgehammer (Kelly Simmons) in 2004, Windy City is the first flat-track roller derby league established in Chicago, and is a founding member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).
These teams included Carolina Rollergirls (fourth place), Gotham Girls Roller Derby, Tucson Roller Derby, Detroit Derby Girls, and Windy City Rollers. [ 35 ] Several marketing materials as well as a statement from WFTDA President "Crackerjack" on page 5 of the program [ 36 ] for this event confirms that at the time it was considered the "first ...
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues [note 1] worldwide, though it is most popular in the United States. [2] A 60-minute roller derby game, or bout, is a series of two-minute timed jams.
The Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) is the international governing body for the sport of women's flat track roller derby. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It sets the international standards for rankings, rules, and competition in the sport, and provides guidance and resources to aid development of roller derby.
Two women's league roller derby skaters leap over two who have fallen in a 1950 bout in New York City. The growing popularity of roller skating in the United States led to the formation of organized multi-day endurance races for cash prizes as early as the mid-1880s.
Texas Rollergirls is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Austin, Texas.Founded in early 2003 and widely credited as the league that started the modern roller derby movement, [1] the Texas Rollergirls were the first flat-track league in the nation to play a version of roller derby using new standardized rules and a track design based on the dimensions of the old banked tracks. [2]
The Roller Derby World Cup is an international women's roller derby tournament formerly organized by Blood & Thunder magazine, [1] [2] and currently organized by the Roller Derby World Cup Committee. Teams of amateur skaters from around the world compete for their respective nations.