Fort Wayne Derby Girls

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Fort Wayne Roller Derby
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Metro area Fort Wayne, IN
Country United States
Founded2005
TeamsBomb Squad (A team)
SWAT Team (B team)
The Academy (rookie team)
Track type(s)Flat
Venue Parkview Fieldhouse and Parkview Icehouse
Affiliations WFTDA
Website www.fwderbygirls.com 
Fort Wayne Roller Derby (FWRD) is an Open Gender flat track roller derby league based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Founded in 2005 originally as Fort Wayne Derby Girls, the league currently consists of a women’s team and an open gender team that compete against teams from all over the United States and Canada. Fort Wayne Roller Derby is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). [1]

History

FWDG was the first flat track roller derby league in Indiana, founded in October 2005 by Danielle Nicolette (Abbott), who skates under the derby name "Little D Evil" and Tonya Vojtkofsky, who skated as "Minx", after they saw the Rat City Rollergirls in Seattle. [2]

Contents

The league played its first exhibition bout in May 2006, to a crowd of 1,200 fans. [2] According to Amber Recker, the first skater to respond to Minx's call for a new team, "We kind of had to get butts in seats by playing up the fighting and more of the sexy aspect of it. As we've evolved... we're much more sports driven". [3] FWDG first played a team from another league in January 2007, when it took on the Gem City Rollergirls, [4] and, in the same month, it joined the Women's Flat Track Derby Association, [2] (and was announced as a new member by the WFTDA in May 2007) [5] and by the end of the year was ranked 29th in the WFTDA. [6]

In 2009, it formed a B team, scrapping its intraleague teams. [7] In 2013, Fort Wayne hosted a WFTDA Division 1 Playoff at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. [8]

FWDG hosts the annual Spring Roll tournament, featuring women's, men's and junior roller derby games. [9]

WFTDA competition

While Fort Wayne has hosted a WFTDA Playoff tournament they have yet to qualify to compete at one.

Rankings

Season Final ranking [10] Playoffs Championship
200729 WFTDA [6] DNQDNQ
20086 NC [11] DNQDNQ
200914 NC [12] DNQDNQ
201015 NC [13] DNQDNQ
201114 NC [14] DNQDNQ
201216 NC [15] DNQDNQ
2013105 WFTDA [16] DNQDNQ
201485 WFTDA [17] DNQDNQ
201576 WFTDA [18] DNQDNQ
2016105 WFTDA [19] DNQDNQ

In the community

The league also focuses on charitable fundraising, [3] and had donated more than $26,000 to charities by June 2008, [20] and $110,000 by September 2013. [8]

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