Roller derby league
The Mid Iowa Rollers is a roller derby league based in Des Moines, Iowa. Founded in 2006, the league currently consists of two teams which compete against teams from other leagues.
The league was founded by Jamie "Dangerous" Daugharthy, after she watched Rollergirls on television. The league initially had five women skaters, and was the first to be created in Iowa. In its early days, the league was given considerable assistance by the No Coast Derby Girls, of Lincoln, Nebraska.[1] By 2008, the league had twenty skaters, and was attracting around 500 fans to its bouts,[2] while, in 2010, crowds topped 1,000, in a season in which the All Stars team won all eight of its interleague bouts.[3]
Mid Iowa was accepted into the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice Program in October 2010,[4] and became a full member of the WFTDA in December 2011.[5]
References
- ^ Jared Curtis, "Belles of the Flat Track", Cityview, August 9–15, 2007
- ^ Brianne Sanchez, "Break a Nail: Mid Iowa Rollers", Des Moines Register, May 20, 2008
- ^ Andrew Potter, "A rolling good time", Times-Republican, February 27, 2011
- ^ "WFTDA Apprentice Program Welcomes 10 New Leagues Archived 2014-05-17 at the Wayback Machine", WFTDA, 5 October 2010
- ^ "WFTDA Adds Six Member Leagues Archived 2012-05-04 at the Wayback Machine", WFTDA, 1 December 2011
