Metro area Sacramento, CA Founded 2006 | Country United States Track type(s) Flat | |
Teams Sacrificers (A team)
Disciples (B team)
The Donna Party
Midtown Maulies
Roseville TrainWreckers Venue Roller King - Roseville, California
Memorial Auditorium - Sacramento, California | ||
The Sacred City Derby Girls (SCDG) is a women's flat track roller derby (WFTDA) league based in Sacramento, California. Founded in 2006, Sacred City is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association, (WFTDA).
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History and league structure
The league was founded in late 2006 by some former members of the Sac City Rollers. In October 2007, Sacred was accepted as a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), announced by the WFTDA in December 2007. In 2010 SCDG hosted the WFTDA Western Regional Tournament. Seeded tenth for the tournament, the league took ninth place. Sacred City served as the host league of a WFTDA Division 1 Playoff in 2014.
By 2010, the league was attracting an average of 850 fans to its intraleague bouts.
The league currently consists of two competitive travel teams that play in WFTDA sanctioned bouts across California in the Western Region, and occasionally nationally: The Sacrificers and The Disciples; and three recently formed home teams created from a mix of Sacrificers, Disciples, and unrostered skaters: The Donna Party, Midtown Maulies, and The Roseville TrainWreckers.
WFTDA competition
In 2010, Sacred City qualified for WFTDA Playoffs for the first time, hosting the WFTDA Western Regional Tournament at which they were the tenth seed, and ultimately finished in ninth place by defeating Duke City Derby 198-72. The following year, Sacred City improved their showing with a seventh place finish at Westerns, capped by a 140-105 victory over Jet City Rollergirls. Another seventh-place finish followed at the 2012 Westerns, with a narrow 147-146 victory over Angel City Derby Girls.
2013 brought the introduction of the Divisional system to replace Regional playoffs. Sacred City entered the Salem Division 1 tournament as the seventh seed, but following losses to Toronto Roller Derby and Victoria (sandwiching a rankings upset over Charm City, Sacred lost the seventh-place game to Boston Derby Dames 309-151 to finish in eighth place. Sacred City was chosen as the host league of one of the Division 1 tournaments for 2014, however the June 30 rankings for that year, which determine tournament seedings, placed Sacred City in Division 2 territory as the 45th team overall. Sacred City was one of two teams to decline their invitation to Division 2 Playoffs that year, citing the costs involved in traveling to the distant locations in their press release announcement.
In 2015, Sacred City again was ranked as a Division 2 team, and played at the Detroit tournament, at which they finished second overall, losing the final to Nashville Roller Girls 194-189. This earned Sacred City a trip to WFTDA Championships for the first time, at the Division 2 level, and in a rematch against Nashville Sacred City became the 2015 WFTDA Division 2 champions with a 211-163 victory. Sacred City returned to the Division 1 level in 2016, entering the Vancouver tournament as the seventh seed, and finished in eighth place after a 252-109 loss to Stockholm Roller Derby.