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Oil City Derby Girls Metro area Edmonton, Alberta Country Canada Founded 2005 Teams All Stars (A team)
The Tanker Girls (B team)
River City Steamrollers (men)Track type(s) Flat Venue Oil City Grindhouse Affiliations CWRDA Website www.oilcityderbygirls.ca The Oil City Derby Girls is a roller derby league based in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada. Founded in 2005, the league currently consists of two teams who compete against teams from other leagues, and a men's team.
The league was founded in 2005, and clams 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]
One skater from the league was selected to play for Team Canada at the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup.[6]
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
- ^ a b "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. http://derbynewsnetwork.com/2011/08/team_canada_roster_announced. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
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