Metro area Newark, New Jersey Founded 2006 | Country United States Track type(s) Flat | |
Teams Ironbound Maidens (A team)
Brick City Bruisers (B team) Venue Inline Skating Club of America Roller Skating Rink | ||
The Garden State Rollergirls is a roller derby league based in Newark, New Jersey. Founded in 2006, it has two teams, and two mixed teams which compete against teams from other leagues.
The NJ Dirty Dames was founded in March 2006, and was based in Kendall Park, New Jersey. It merged with the Garden State Rollergirls in May 2008, 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. The league was accepted into the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice Program in September 2009, and became full members of the WFTDA in June 2010. By 2010, it had around forty skaters.
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Garden State Rollergirls Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA