"This is the first really big event that we've been able to do in Des Moines in many years, and we're just so excited," said ...

On a chilly New Year's Eve night, hundreds of people packed into the Roller Barn for one last chance to glide along the ...

DETROIT - By day they raise their sons and daughters, save lives, and shape young minds in the classroom. By night, they are ...

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 ...

ELDRIDGE, Iowa — The Quad City Rollers are inviting community members to learn the sport of roller derby through a seven-week boot camp beginning Jan. 4. Organizers say the boot camp is open to anyone ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Each person who goes inside the Derby Depot in Salt Lake City seems to have a reason for being there. That safe space, however, may be coming to a close, after they found out their ...

ELDRIDGE, Iowa — The Quad City Rollers are gearing up for their 20th season and inviting first-time skaters to join the league through its annual rookie boot camp, which begins in January. The program ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Leave It on the Track" follows a grieving teen who moves to Portland and finds healing, queer community and maybe a little romance on the roller derby track. "A lot of people in derby talk about how ...

Saturday night marked the last home bout and final games of the season for Humboldt Roller Derby, which saw the travelling Root Force (B) take on North Bay Derby (Sonoma County) in the opener and also ...