The growing popularity of roller skating in the United States led to the formation of organized multi-day endurance races for cash prizes, as early as the mid-1880s. Speed and endurance races continued to be held on both flat and banked tracks in the century's first three decades and spectators enjoyed the spills and falls of the skaters. The term "roller derby" was used to refer to such races by 1922.
Video Roller derby in the United States
Associations
There are a multitude of roller derby associations in the United States.
- Men's Roller Derby Association (MRDA) - 25 member leagues
- Modern Athletic Derby Endeavor (MADE) - 8 member leagues
- Junior Roller Derby Association (JRDA) - 118 junior roller derby member leagues as of Dec 2017
- Roller Derby Coalition of Leagues (RDCL) - 8 banked track member leagues
- USA Roller Sports (USARS) - 10 member leagues
- Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) - 402 member leagues and 57 apprentice leagues as of December 2017
- World Organization of Roller Derby (WORD)
Maps Roller derby in the United States
Leagues
Due to historical accident, the term "league" in modern roller derby means something more akin to a football club than to a traditional sports league thus, there are a very large number of leagues sometimes even including two or more based in a single city.
See also
- Roller derby
- List of roller derby associations
- List of roller derby leagues
- History of roller derby
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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