Hey, y’all. It’s time for the CTRG Scholarship for Women Athletes again!

Deadline is May 1, 2013. Application form and printable flyers available at the website!

Please share!

Honestly, we don’t know yet!  We’re still in the research phase, but as soon as we have dates and a program set, we’ll post it here.  Keep skating!!

Check out Shovie Lovie!  We’re calling it now: this little monster is going to be captain of the Stepford Sabotage in 2025!

CTRG is an 18+ league.  We would like to start a junior league sometime in the future, but nothing is in place yet.  I know that Gotham Girls Roller Derby runs a junior program - they are likely the closest option.  Good luck, and keep skating!  We hope you try out for CTRG once you’re 18!

The CT RollerGirls are raising money to send their WFTDA charter team to Spring Roll in May!  We’re sending a 16-person roster and two of our twenty* coaches all the way to Indiana to (hopefully) kick some butt and take some names at this 3-day tournament.  Give some love and you can get all kinds of stuff in return.  Plus!  CTRG is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, so a portion of your donation is tax deductible!  Help a derby girl out!

*maybe it just seems like twenty

Oh what a good question!  Honestly, it depends.  If you want to join CTRG, we hold tryouts twice a year, where we test not only your skating skills, but also your coachability.  (There’s also a quick interview so we can get to know you and answer any questions you have.)  If your skating skills are rusty, or you want to see what you’ll be tested on, we usually hold skills bootcamps a few weeks before tryouts.  At bootcamp, experienced skaters will go over all the basic skills you’ll need for tryouts.

But the best way to start in roller derby is get skating!  Go to open skates and get comfortable on your skates - that will help a lot in the tryout process.  

In our league, once you’ve passed tryouts, you enter a 12-practice rookie period, during which time you improve your skills and get to know the league.  At the end of that period, league members vote on whether you’ll be accepted into CTRG.  Once you’re voted in, we continue your training and work on getting you scrimmage- and bout-ready so that you can safely play full-contact derby.  

I hope that’s helpful!

xoxo,

Your Mom

CTRG’s Girl Fawkes and CTRG’s Pow-Pow Powerwheels fighting it out for a good cause!  Photo by Hale Yeah

Well you can still see all the action here!  CTRG was represented in all 3 scrimmages - see if you can spot your favorite skaters!  

Scrimmages 1 and 2 were composed of teams of B and C team skaters from all over the region (New York!  Massachusetts!  Rhode Island!  And of course all three Connecticut leagues!), and scrimmage 3 features coed teams of WFTDA travel team skaters and some of the many handsome dudes of MRDA!

Scrimmage 1 (mixed teams of women’s B/C team skaters from around the region)

Scrimmage 2 (mixed women’s B/C)

Scrimmage 3 (mixed coed travel/A)

Thanks so much to Shoreline Roller Derby for putting this on and letting us co-host - it was a blast, and (even better) the derby community raised five thousand actual dollars for the United Way Sandy Hook Support Fund!

Shoreline Roller Derby and the CT Rollergirls are teaming up Saturday for a coed scrimmage to benefit Sandy Hook Elementary. Connecticut roller derby: kicking butts for a good cause!