Two weeks before the biggest competition of her career, Sam Flowers, better known to her teammates and rivals as ThumpHER, sat in her car outside the gym before another workout to prepare for the ...

For 20 years, Fayetteville Roller Derby has been building friendships, fierce competitors and a community that keeps skaters ...

In the parking lot of a Redwood City sports complex, more than a dozen athletes arrived from Los Angeles, carrying roller skates in seemingly every color imaginable. Smiling volunteers awaited them at ...

Hannah Spahn, a jammer for the Indie Rockers, high-fives her teammates and attendees around the track at the beginning on the Roller Derby of Central Kentucky versus Akron Roller Derby game in the ...

For 20 years, Philly Roller Derby skaters, who go by names like Woolly Slammoth, TrailBlazeHer and Reba Smackentire, have jammed and blocked their way around oval skating rinks in the spirit of ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. A new documentary gives an inside look at the world of Minnesota Roller Derby. It’s called “Minnesota Mean.” The documentary follows six women on the ...

It’s all eyes on the prize this weekend for the Texas Rollergirls. The local flat-track Roller Derby league doesn’t hold its championship bout until July 25, but Sunday sees the big decider, with the ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The 2025 home season of Gem City Roller Derby (GCRD) has been announced. GCRD is Dayton’s premier women’s flat track roller derby league. It is inviting fans to come downtown to ...

Nicole Williams, better known as Bonnie Thunders, laps her opponents during a west coast regional roller derby tournament in June. Credit: Recess the Photographer Twenty years ago, Kim “Rocket Mean” ...

An Atlanta skater named Sweet ‘n Sour shoves her way past players from rival team Terminus like a human Tetris block. She pushes and jumps her way to securing the lead—only to fall. She’ll get back up ...

DENVER — On a quiet block in northwest Denver, behind an ordinary wooden fence, skaters lean into a slanted track and hurl themselves around its curves. It is, in almost every respect, an unlikely ...