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A derby name, roller derby name or skater name is a nickname used by a skater while playing or officiating roller derby. Derby names can be seen as an opportunity to adopt an alternative on-track persona. [1] Many derby names are puns, and in some cases this may extend to the skater's number. [2]
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.
Classic City was accepted into the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice Program in January 2011, [6] and became a full member of the WFTDA in March 2012. [7] The 2016 team captain is #20 Louis Strongarm. She was also team captain in 2015 and consistently rates as one of the team's most productive jammers.
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]
Formed in April 2008 as Auld Reekie Roller Girls, ARRD were Edinburgh's first women's flat track roller derby league, and take their name after the city of Edinburgh, affectionately known as "Auld Reekie" ("Old Smoky" in the Scots language). Within two months of forming there was local media interest.
DRR were formed in January 2010 by skaters Sally-Anne Scrivener (derby name Slamabama) from Birmingham's Central City Rollergirls and Nitro Noush of Rebellion Roller Girls. [1] [4] They were both living in Leicester and travelling to Birmingham and Milton Keynes respectively to play roller derby.
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
The L.A. Derby Dolls have partnered with other organizations for community service work such as the Human Rights Campaign, Children of the Night, Big Sunday, AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), Children's Hospital Los Angeles, the St. Vincent Medical Center (Los Angeles), the American Diabetes Association (ADA), and with After-School All-Stars (ASAS) to help teach young girls the sport of roller ...