The Newcastle Roller Girls is a women's flat track roller derby league from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Newcastle is a member of both the United Kingdom Roller Derby Association (UKRDA) and the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), and plays by the WFTDA ruleset.
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History
Newcastle Roller Girls was established in 2009 by Claire Byrne (Brie Larceny). There league has three teams, the Canny Belters A team, the Whippin' Hinnies B team and the North C's C team. Although the teams are all-female, men are involved in coaching and refereeing. Home bouts are played at the Benfield Sports Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne.
In March 2010, the team featured in a BBC Look North report on roller derby in Tyneside. The BBC created a webpage about the team.
The team played their first bout at Hadrian's Brawl on 11 April 2010, playing against the B team from the Auld Reekie Roller Girls at the Meadowbank Sports Centre in Edinburgh. The first home bout, Flog on the Tyne, was against Granite City Roller Girls of Aberdeen on 5 March 2011 at The Lightfoot Centre in Walker, Newcastle, winning by 113 to 63.
In November 2011, Newcastle Roller Girls joined the UK Roller Derby Association. In October 2013, they were accepted as a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice Programme. Newcastle became a full WFTDA member league in July 2014.
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Associated teams
An associated men's team was founded in June 2011, Tyne and Fear Roller Derby. A mixed-gender team, Tyne e' Belters, includes members of Newcastle Roller Girls. In 2015 Newcastle Junior Roller Derby was established, a junior roller derby squad, and they made their debut during the half time interval of the British Roller Derby Championships game on 2 April 2016.
WFTDA rankings
References
Source of article : Wikipedia
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