Tucson Roller Derby
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| Metro area | Tucson, Arizona |
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| Country | United States |
| Founded | 2003 |
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TRD Saddletramps (A team) Furious Truckstop Waitresses VICE Squad Copper Queens Bandoleras |
| Track type(s) | Flat |
| Venue | Tucson Indoor Sports Center 1065 W Grant Rd, Tucson, AZ 85705 |
| Affiliations | WFTDA |
| Org. type | 501(c)(3) NPO |
| Website | tucsonrollerderby.com |
Tucson Roller Derby (TRD) is a women's flat track roller derby league located in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in late 2003, Tucson Roller Derby is a skater-run non-profit organization and hosts monthly roller derby competitions showcasing bouts involving the various teams in the league, often against other leagues in Arizona, and also teams from national derby leagues. A founding member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA), Tucson was the host league for the first WFTDA Championships in 2006.
Initially formed as the Tucson extension of the Phoenix-based Arizona Roller Derby, TRD was founded in December 2003 by Kim Kysar (aka Kim Sin) when the Tucson skaters, citing geographical and logistical concerns, broke away from the parent league. By 2006 Tucson Roller Derby was averaging 700-800 fans for home events at Bladeworld, since renamed the Tucson Indoor Sports Center, and still Tucson's home bouting venue as of 2017.
Tucson hosted the first-ever WFTDA Championships over the weekend of February 24–26, 2006. Dubbed the "Dust Devil", the event hosted 20 WFTDA leagues from around the United States in a tournament to determine the nation's first-ever WFTDA national champion team. Subsequently, TRD was chosen to host the first WFTDA Western Regional Tournament in 2007, also called the Dust Devil. This tournament, featuring members of the WFTDA's West Region, determined the four leagues to head to the Texas Shootout WFTDA Championship in Austin, Texas, where they faced off against the top four teams from the East. TRD still hosts this historical annual tournament, now an invitational tournament without Playoff implications, every spring. TRD hosted a WFTDA Division 1 playoff tournament in September 2015 at the Tucson Convention Center, including WFTDA teams from the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Tucson Roller Derby received their Public Charity status on August 7, 2006, as the first team in the WFTDA to receive a tax deductible status on donations. TRD is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity organization.
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