Oil City Derby Girls
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| Metro area | Edmonton, Alberta |
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| Country | Canada |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Teams |
Oil City Derby Girls (Travel Team) GI Janes (house team) River City Riot (Men's Team) |
| Venue | Edmonton Sportsdome |
| Affiliations | RDAC |
| Website |
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The Oil City Derby Girls is a flat track roller derby league based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 2005, the league currently consists of three house teams who compete against teams from other leagues, an all-star travel team, and a men's team.
The league was founded in 2005, and claims to have been the first flat-track roller derby league in Canada.[1] By the following February, it had 14 skaters, and was known as the "Oil City Rollers". Although it briefly planned to expand across Canada,[2] other leagues emerged in other cities, and E-Ville Roller Derby split from Oil City to produce two leagues in the city.[3]
In January 2009, Lesley McDonald, a skater with Oil City, founded the Canadian Women's Roller Derby Association,[4] By September 2010, the league was hosting bouts in a 3,000-capacity venue. It won the Wild Rose Cup from the Calgary Roller Derby Association,[5] which had held it for three years.[3]
Former Oil City Derby Girl Teeknee was selected to play for Team Canada at the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup.[6]
The Oil City Derby Girls began their 2014 season with an All-Star bout against their rival Edmonton league, E-Ville Roller Derby. The E-Ville Dead overcame the Oil City All-Stars with a final score of 214-142.
Along with E-Ville Roller Derby, Oil City Derby Girls moved to the Edmonton Sportsdome due to the demolition of Metro Sportsplex.
References
- ↑ "All About the Oil City Derby Girls", Oil City Derby Girls
- ↑ "Local Oil City Rollers hoping for a roller derby renaissance", Edmonton Journal, 20 March 2006
- 1 2 "OCDG Press and Media", Oil City Derby Girls
- ↑ Thane Burnett, "Today's roller girls are hell on wheels", Sun Media, 24 February 2009
- ↑ Kristy Brownlee, "Roller derby's more than just rough", Edmonton Sun, 19 September 2010
- ↑ Mercy Less (5 August 2011). "Team Canada Roster Announced". Derby News Network. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
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