Mississippi Valley Mayhem

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Mississippi Valley Mayhem
Mississippi Valley Mayhem logo.jpg
Metro area La Crosse, WI
Country United States
TeamsAll Stars
Track type(s) Flat
Venue Onalaska Omni Center
Affiliations WFTDA
Website mississippivalleymayhem.com

Mississippi Valley Mayhem (MVM) is a women's flat track roller derby league based in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Founded in 2008, the league consists of a single team which competes against teams from other leagues. Mississippi Valley is a member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). [1]

Roller derby contact sport

Roller derby is a contact sport played by two teams of five members roller skating counter-clockwise around a track. Roller derby is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues worldwide, mostly inside the United States.

La Crosse, Wisconsin City in Wisconsin, United States

La Crosse is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of La Crosse County. Positioned alongside the Mississippi River, La Crosse is the largest city on Wisconsin's western border. La Crosse's estimated population in 2017 was 51,834. The city forms the core of and is the principal city in the La Crosse Metropolitan Area which includes all of La Crosse County and Houston County, Minnesota for a population of 135,298.

The Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) is the international governing body for the sport of women's flat track roller derby, and association of leagues around the world. The organization was founded in April 2004 as the United Leagues Coalition (ULC), but was renamed in November 2005. It is registered in Raleigh, North Carolina as a 501(c)(6) business league organization, a type of nonprofit organization.

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History

The Mayhem was founded in August 2008 by two local women, Amanda Boucher and Stephanie Powers, after Boucher encountered the sport on a visit to Austin, Texas. [2] By May 2009, the league had twenty skaters, and had played two bouts to around 200 fans. [3]

Austin, Texas Capital of Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. It is the 11th-most populous city in the United States and the 4th-most populous city in Texas. It is also the fastest growing large city in the United States, the second most populous state capital after Phoenix, Arizona, and the southernmost state capital in the contiguous United States. As of the U.S. Census Bureau's July 1, 2017 estimate, Austin had a population of 950,715 up from 790,491 at the 2010 census. The city is the cultural and economic center of the Austin–Round Rock metropolitan statistical area, which had an estimated population of 2,115,827 as of July 1, 2017. Located in Central Texas within the greater Texas Hill Country, it is home to numerous lakes, rivers, and waterways, including Lady Bird Lake and Lake Travis on the Colorado River, Barton Springs, McKinney Falls, and Lake Walter E. Long.

The league was accepted into the Women's Flat Track Derby Association Apprentice Program in January 2010, [4] and it graduated to full membership in December 2012. [5] In May 2011, one of its practice venues, the Green Island Ice Arena, was severely damaged by a tornado. [6]

Tornado violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the earths surface and a cumulonimbus cloud in the air

A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. The windstorm is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the center around which, from an observer looking down toward the surface of the earth, winds blow counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern. Tornadoes come in many shapes and sizes, and they are often visible in the form of a condensation funnel originating from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, with a cloud of rotating debris and dust beneath it. Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than 110 miles per hour (180 km/h), are about 250 feet (80 m) across, and travel a few miles before dissipating. The most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more than 300 miles per hour (480 km/h), are more than two miles (3 km) in diameter, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles.

WFTDA rankings

Season Final ranking [7] Playoffs Championship
2014222 WFTDA [8] DNQDNQ
2015214 WFTDA [9] DNQDNQ
2016255 WFTDA [10] DNQDNQ

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References

  1. ↑ "Mississippi Valley Mayhem – WFTDA". wftda.com. WFTDA. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Jo Anne Killeen, "Roller derby making a comeback", La Crosse Tribune , August 7, 2008
  3. ↑ Jo Anne Killeen, "Women's roller derby debuts at OmniCenter", La Crosse Tribune , May 28, 2009
  4. ↑ "Apprentice Leagues", WFTDA [version of 23 March 2010]
  5. ↑ "WFTDA Welcomes 14 New Members Archived 2012-12-06 at the Wayback Machine .", 3 December 2012
  6. ↑ "Tornado damages La Crosse roller derby arena", Associated Press , May 23, 2011
  7. ↑ "Current Rankings", WFTDA
  8. ↑ "Rankings: December 31, 2014 – WFTDA". wftda.com. WFTDA. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  9. ↑ "Rankings: December 31, 2015 – WFTDA". wftda.com. WFTDA. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  10. ↑ "Rankings: December 31, 2016 – WFTDA". wftda.com. WFTDA. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
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