Twenty years ago, Kim “Rocket Mean” Stegeman put an ad on the back page of the Portland Mercury. She didn’t have a business ...

Thirteen teams are set to compete in the roller derby world championships in Portland this weekend. According to the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), the championships will take place on ...

The GTA Rollergirls are Toronto’s first not-for-profit flat track roller derby league, formed in the Spring of 2007 by Cynthia Brooks, aka Splat Benatar #27. In 2014 Cynthia Brooks was honoured ...

Flat Track Roller Derby is a five-on-five physical ... Coliseum for the 2016 International Champions of the Womens Flat-Track Derby Association. The tournament drew fans and teams from as far ...

The 70-member award-winning Oregon Sinfonietta is now in its 52nd season. Donald L. Appert conducts four free concerts per ...

The Denver Roller Dolls' traveling all-star team, the Mile High Club, spent all of 2013 near the top of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association rankings, won the Division 1 playoffs, and finished ...

Gem City Roller Derby was founded in 2006 and has grown significantly in the time since. One of its traveling teams, Purple Reign, is ranked 19 out of 135 teams in the Women’s Flat Track Derby ...

It's the most exciting women's roller derby championship in the world, and it's happening right here in Portland, Oregon! That's right, the 2024 WFTDA Global Championships are being held at ...

Laura Morgan says she went from not exercising at all, to feeling "fierce and strong" through roller derby From lack of confidence to fear of injury, some women can struggle to join sports.

“Noise, color, body contact” is how Leo Seltzer, the creator of roller derby, described it to The New York Times in 1971. He invented the game during the Great Depression in 1935. Roller derby ...

(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – Roller derby is again having a moment in Chicago, the city where the sport was created nearly a century ago. Promoter Leo Seltzer is credited with cooking up the combative ...

During these years she discovered and embraced the sport of roller derby as a way ... governing body of women’s roller derby, the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), which represents ...