St. Pauli Roller Derby is a flat track

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league based in

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. It consists of two trip teams, an A team and a B team, which compete against teams from other leagues. They are called ''Harbor Girls A'' and ''Harbor Girls B'' respectively. St. Pauli Roller Derby is the follow-up club to the Harbor Girls e.V., which was an independent roller derby club before it became part of

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and changed its name. The Harbor Girls were founded by Spooky Spiky and Killing Zoe, the former had previously skated with the

Stuttgart Valley Rollergirlz Stuttgart Valley Roller Derby is a women's flat track roller derby league based in Stuttgart. Founded in 2006, the league currently consists of two teams which compete against teams from other leagues. Stuttgart is a member of the Women's Flat ...

. By mid-2011, the league had thirty skaters. "Heavy Miss Gale", a skater from the league, was selected for the

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for the 2011

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. In the 2014 World Championship, four player from SPRD were selected to play in the Dallas roster: Ostblocker, Jeanne Dark, Knock 'n' Rose and Lotta Loveless.

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