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List Of Roller Skaters
The following is a list of notable roller skaters and inline skaters. The list is sorted by roller skating disciplines (inline speed skating, roller inline hockey, downhill, artistic roller skating), gender and competing nationality. Note that some definitions of roller skating include inline, while others intend to specify quad skates. Inline speed skating and aggressive inline skaters Male American * Chad Hedrick * Derek Parra * Joey Mantia French * Alexis Contin * Pascal Briand New Zealander * Shane Dobbin * Peter Michael * Reyon Kay India * Dhanush Babu * Sarvesh Amte * Jayant Rajora Female American * Brittany Bowe Spanish * Ghizlane Samir Roller derby * Ashlie Atkinson * Bill Bogash * Toughie Brasuhn * Ann Calvello * Alex Cohen * Danielle Colby * Shauna Cross * Lezlie Deane * Bonnie D.Stroir * Jim Fitzpatrick * Julie Glass * Suzy Hotrod * Hydra * Annis Jensen * Charlie O'Connell * Ivanna S. Pankin * Tim Patten * Ronnie Robinson * Maria Rodri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roller Skating
Roller skating is the act of traveling on surfaces with roller skates. It is a recreational activity, a sport, and a form of transportation. Roller rinks and skate parks are built for roller skating, though it also takes place on streets, sidewalks, and bike paths. Roller skating originated in the performing arts in the 18th century. It gained widespread popularity starting in the 1880s. Roller skating was very popular in the United States from the 1930s to the 1950s, then again in the 1970s when it was associated with disco music and roller discos. During the 1990s, inline outdoor roller skating became popular. Sport roller skating includes speed skating, roller hockey, roller derby, figure skating and aggressive quad skating. History The earliest roller skates known are from 18th century Europe. These skates were used in theater and musical performances, possibly to simulate ice skating onstage. Early roller skating was done in a straight line because turning or curvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Bogash
Bill "Flash" Bogash (November 22, 1916 – March 20, 2009) was a roller derby skater and coach. Born in Chicago, he began his career in 1935 during the Great Depression, and skated until 1958. Bogash's career began after he and his mother attended the first Transcontinental Roller Derby in Chicago on August 13, 1935, a six-week race that tracked skaters' total distance traveled in laps around a track on a US map. He and his mother, Josephine 'Ma' Bogash joined the second race in September of that year, in Kansas. After racing with many teams throughout the 1940s, Bogash led the New York Chiefs to their first Roller Derby World Championship in 1949. Towards the end of his career, Bogash skated for the Los Angeles Braves. After retirement in 1958, Bogash went on to be a restaurateur in Los Angeles, California, with some of the most incredible steaks and twice-cooked potatoes on Earth! He died of respiratory failure on March 20, 2009. He was inducted into the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie O'Connell (roller Derby)
Charlie O'Connell (May 7, 1935 – February 9, 2015) was a roller derby skater, considered the premier male star of his sport. He was inducted into the Roller Derby Hall of Fame in 1967, after his first retirement. A native New York City, New Yorker, at and , he was one of the larger and speedier players, considered a "prototype pivotman". p. 4 He made an immediate impact in his 1953 debut season with the New York Chiefs and was named rookie of the year. Nicknamed "Mr. Roller Derby", he went on to win the league's Most Valuable Player award eight times. He was most commonly associated with the San Francisco Bay Bombers for most of his career. He initially retired in 1967, but soon returned to the sport and played until 1978, before finally hanging up his skates for good. p. 11 He estimated he had played "well over 3000 games" during his career. He was one of the focal points of the 1971 documentary film ''Derby (1971 film), Derby''. He died aged 79 on February 9, 2015. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annis Jensen
Annis "Big Red" Jensen (September 20, 1921 – January 10, 2015) was an American roller derby skater. In 1954, she was the first women's captain of the San Francisco Bay Bombers in the IRDL professional roller derby league. At the time of retirement in 1969, she was the oldest active skater in league history. In 1960, she was inducted into the Roller Derby Hall of Fame. She returned to active skating, again with the Bay Bombers, in mid 1974 skating alongside Ann Calvello, Joan Weston, and Jensen's daughter, Barbara Baker. Death Annis Jensen died on January 10, 2015, in Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ..., aged 93. References 1921 births 2015 deaths Roller derby skaters Place of birth missing Place of death missing Sportspeople from San Francisco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hydra (skater)
Jennifer Wilson, known as Hydra, is a roller derby skater who has played a leading role in the development of the sport. Hydra joined Bad Girl Good Woman (BGGW) in 2001, around the time that the league was founded.January 2010 Featured Skater: Hydra ", WFTDA, January 4, 2010 She worked as a hydrologist and selected her derby name in reference both to this, and to the mythological monster. She played a leading role in the team, utilising her experience as a high-level player. later joining its |
Suzy Hotrod
Jean Schwarzwalder (born 1980), known as Suzy Hotrod, is a roller derby skater. Early life Born in Lindenwold, New Jersey, Hotrod began skating in 2004, soon after leaving college, having not previously exercised for four years. Training with the Gotham Girls Roller Derby league, she was immediately picked out as a potential jammer.Suzy Hotrod , '''', 2011 At the time, she worked as a photo editor, and played guitar in the punk band Lady Unluck. Career By 2007, Hotrod was captain of Gotham's "Queens of Pain" team. After the 2010 , Hotrod ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Glass
Julie Brandt Glass (born 23 February 1979), known as Atomatrix, is a former roller derby skater, and a former competitive speed skater. Inline skating Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan as Julie Brandt, she took up inline speed skating, and won two gold medals at the U.S. Olympic Festival in 1995. She was overall sprint champion at the U.S. nationals that year, and again in 1998, also winning the Downer's Grove Championship in 1996 and 1998, and taking a gold medal at the World Cup in 1997. She took a break from skating during which she married Doug Glass, a fellow speed skater, then returned to win a silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. She also competed at the X Games, taking gold in the women's downhill inline skating at the 1998 event, won gold at the 2003 Pan American Games, and at the 2003 Berlin Roller Marathon. Glass took another break from skating in 2002, during which time she and her husband ran a roller rink and drive-through coffee shop in Lebanon, Oregon. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Fitzpatrick (athlete)
Jim Fitzpatrick (born April 15, 1959) is an American author, photographer, portrait artist and former athlete in the sport of roller derby. Fitzpatrick, born and raised in San Francisco, California, skated for the San Francisco Bay Bombers, of the International Roller Skating League (IRSL) Roller Derby, the 1977–1987 revival of the sport. Following a number of shoulder separation injuries, he became a league referee. In 1979 one of Fitzpatrick's photographs, which he took of pro wrestler Don Muraco fighting with Dean Ho at the Cow Palace for Roy Shires' wrestling promotion, was published in ''Wrestling World Magazine'' in the Special 1979 Edition. Ring Announcer and writer, Allan Bolte wrote the article entitled "Don Muraco: The Man Fans Love the Hate" which contained Jim's photo that appears on page 47. In 1980 he skated in an altered version of Roller Derby which combined Roller Derby rules with those of Roller Ball called Roller Superball. This series was held in Luna Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie D
Bonnie, is a Scottish given name and is sometimes used as a descriptive reference, as in the Scottish folk song, My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean. It comes from the Scots language word "bonnie" (pretty, attractive), or the French bonne (good). That is in turn derived from the Latin word "bonus" (good). The name can also be used as a pet form of Bonita. People named Bonnie Women * Bonnie Bartlett (born 1929), American actress * Bonnie Bedelia (born 1948), American actress * Bonnie Bernstein (born 1970), American sportscaster * Bonnie Bianco (born 1963), American singer and actress * Bonny Blair (born 1964), retired American speedskater * Bonnie Bramlett (born 1944), American singer and sometime actress * Bonnie Crombie (born 1960), Canadian politician, formerly Member of the Canadian Parliament * Bonnie Curtis (born 1966), American film producer * Bonnie Dasse (born 1959), retired American track and field athlete * Bonnie Dobson (born 1940), Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lezlie Deane
Lezlie Deane (born June 1, 1964) is an American singer, musician, roller derby athlete and actress who has starred in film and television. She was once best known for her roles in horror films, including '' 976-EVIL'' (1988), '' Girlfriend from Hell'' (1989) and '' Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare'' (1991). In the 1990s, she was a member of the techno group Fem2Fem. Early life and career Deane was born Leslie Denise Lonon (the "s" in her first name being a typo by the hospital where she was born), in Corsicana, Texas. Aside from her big screen roles, Deane made guest appearances on such television shows as '' The Bronx Zoo'', ''21 Jump Street'', '' Hunter'', ''Freddy's Nightmares'', ''Dynasty'' and '' Pacific Blue''. She was also once a member of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders squad, but was fired after six weeks for punching a choreographer. Fem2Fem In the 1990s, she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2Fem, and toure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shauna Cross
Shauna Cross is an American screenwriter, novelist and former roller derby athlete. She skated for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls under the pseudonym "Maggie Mayhem", and subsequently wrote the 2007 novel '' Derby Girl'', a fictionalized version of her experiences in the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls league. In 2009, she wrote a film adaption of the novel, '' Whip It'', which was directed by Drew Barrymore and released in 2009. She was named one of '' Variety''s 10 Screenwriters to Watch in 2008. Early life Cross grew up in Austin, Texas with her two brothers and younger sister. Writing career After graduating from the University of Texas film school in Austin, Cross worked on a few local film productions before deciding to move to Los Angeles in 2001 to try to break into the screenwriting industry. She supported herself in Los Angeles by working odd jobs optioning screenplays "here and there". In 2007, Cross's novel '' Derby Girl'', about a teenage girl from a small town who tak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Colby
Danielle Colby (born December 3, 1975) is an American reality television personality who appears on the History reality television show ''American Pickers''. Personal life Danielle Colby was born in Davenport, Iowa, and brought up as a Jehovah’s Witness. By 2004, she was married to Englishman Robert Strong with two children. Colby's television career eventually led to the breakup of her marriage. In May 2012, she told WQAD-TV that "fame and notoriety are not easy for him to deal with at all, so the relationship ended up not working out". Performance career Colby owned and participated in a female roller derby team, the Big Mouth Mickies, for three years until injuries forced her to give it up. While living with her family in Chicago, she attended a burlesque performance starring comedian Margaret Cho and dancer Satan's Angel. This prompted in her a desire to become a burlesque dancer; and, after she moved back with her family to the Quad Cities area of Iowa, she created the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
