Garden State Roller Derby is a flat track
roller derby
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played by two teams of fifteen members. Roller derby is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues worldwide, mostly in the United States.
Game play consists of a series of short scrimmages (jam ...
league based in
Newark, New Jersey
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. Founded in 2006, it has three home teams, and two travel teams which compete against teams from other leagues. Garden State Roller Derby is a member of the
Women's Flat Track Derby Association
The Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) is the international governing body for the sport of women's flat track roller derby, and association of leagues around the world. The organization was founded in April 2004 as the United Leagues Co ...
(WFTDA).
History
The NJ Dirty Dames was founded in March 2006 as the first roller derby league in New Jersey, and was based in
Kendall Park. It merged with the Garden State Rollergirls June 1 2008, with its All Star team, the Hub City Hellrazors, initially becoming an additional intraleague team.
In 2009, the league was featured in an item on ''
CBS News
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''. The league was accepted into the
Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice
The Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice is the program affiliate of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). In operation from 2009 until early 2019, the Apprentice Program served to onboard new member leagues into the WFTDA ...
Program in September 2009, and became full members of the WFTDA in June 2010. By 2010, it had around 40 skaters.
[Kelly Nicholaides,]
Garden State Roller Girls Rumble, Rock
, ''North Jersey Media Group
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'', 7 April 2010
In 2020, Garden State Rollergirls rebranded as Garden State Roller Derby.
WFTDA rankings
See also
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Roller derby in the United States
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. Speed and endurance races continued to be held on both flat and banked tracks in ...
References
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Roller derby leagues established in 2006
Roller derby leagues in New Jersey
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2006 establishments in New Jersey