Colorado’s roller derby squads are evolving — again — to provide competition and community as other sports roll back the ...

When she laces up her skates, Paralympian Robin Tueting turns into her roller derby moniker — Hot Tamale. “It's pandemonium,” she said. “It's bananas, action all the time in roller derby.” Tueting — ...

This story originally published online at The 9th Street Journal. It’s a Saturday morning at Wheels, the indoor roller skating rink in East Durham, and the place has been taken over by the Carolina ...

Out on the rink, Boston Roller Derby’s Abby Coburn is known as “Debbie Downher.” But nickname aside, she said she feels nothing but pleased to be crashing into her fellow skaters. “It's a space where ...

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 ...

Teresa Huang of South Hadley never really considered themself a serious athlete, but when they rediscovered roller derby in 2023 after a few years away from it, they thought it might be a fun thing to ...

A junior roller derby program in Taunton, Massachusetts, has grown to nearly 50 skaters in two and a half years. The Nor’East Uprising program welcomes all genders from ages 8 to 18, with participants ...

In 2018, I moved by myself from Columbus, Ohio to Portland, Ore., hoping that the moodiness of the trees and mountains might help me discover something about myself. I was working for a nonprofit and ...

Toledo’s premier roller derby is hosting a tattoo fundraiser on Valentine’s Day to help the organization raise money for a new practice space.