Assassination City Roller Derby

Assassination City Roller Derby
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Metro areaPlano, TX
CountryUnited States
Founded2005
Teams
  • Conspiracy
  • Deadly Kennedys
  • Lone Star Assassins
  • Bombshell Brigade
  • Viva La Revolucion!
Track type(s)Flat
VenueThunderbird Roller Rink
(Past venues: Fair Park Coliseum)
AffiliationsWFTDA
Websiteacderby.com

Assassination City Roller Derby (ACRD) is a women's flat-track roller derby league based in Plano, Texas. Assassination City is a founding member[1] of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).[2]

Founded in 2005, the league consists of four home teams and one travel team. The home teams compete against each other in league play during the official home season, which typically runs from February to September.[3] The league's All-Star Skaters make up the travel team, called Conspiracy. This group of skaters compete at the interleague level, against teams from other leagues and cities. The games or bouts played at this level affect the league's overall ranking among the top teams in the WFTDA.

ACRD has become active not only as competitors in the roller derby community, but as participants in the local community.[4]

The 2011 season was moved to the Fair Park Coliseum, where it attracted 2,000 fans to its first bout.[5] At the close of the 2013 season Assassination City returned to its roller rink roots at Broadway Skateland, where they played to a packed house and a sold-out crowd for the 2014 season opener, held February 8, 2014. February 2015 ushered the amateur sport into Plano, TX at Thunderbird Roller Rink where they still play & practice.

The league was voted on my the Plano community as the "Best Way to Get Your Heart Rate Up" in 2024 [6]

  1. ^ Joulwan, Melissa (6 April 2007). Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track. Simon and Schuster. p. 267. ISBN 9781416538554. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Alamo City Rollergirls - Women's Flat Track Derby Association". Wftda.com. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-02.
  3. ^ acderby.com
  4. ^ Joanna Cattanach, "Women find excitement, and sometimes themselves, on roller derby track", Dallas Morning News, 25 July 2010
  5. ^ Louiseza Sanderson, "Roller derby girls skate from Mesquite to much bigger Dallas digs Archived 2011-05-19 at the Wayback Machine", Pegasus News, 30 March 2011
  6. ^ "Best of Plano 'Culture & Entertainment' 2024 Winners". Plano Magazine. Retrieved 2024-08-19.