2011-2012 Season Schedule
Get ready for a season eight with the Minnesota RollerGirls - Minnesota’s original roller derby league.The fall bouts will feature your favorite four home teams and the winter/spring months will feature the All-Star bouts.
Saturday, October 15
Saturday, November 19
Saturday, December 17
Saturday, January 21 (home team championship)
Saturday, February 4
Saturday, February 18 with Minnesota Swarm
Saturday, March 3
Saturday, March 31
News
Announcement: Two Minnesota RollerGirls to take part in Red Bull Crashed Ice “Ice Cross” event
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Starting Thursday, January 12 at 1pm, Diamond Rough and Hurtrude Stein - both members of the Atomic Bombshells and All-Stars - will take to a different kind of track ... a downhill ice track filled with obstacles, jumps, and a 90 degree turn at the top of a 16’ climb up the side of a building in the Red Bull Crashed Ice event.
Both Minnesota RollerGirls are former competitive hockey players and know their way around the ice as well as they do around the derby track, so this event is a natural fit for their agile skating abilities. However, there will be some major differences from what they’ve become accustomed to on the derby track. Namely, most contact is illegal in this sport, so these natural blockers will need to dial back their blocking instincts and focus on getting down the 382 yard long course that drops over 131 feet faster than their competitors.
There are five US women competing in the event and we believe this is the first time any US women have competed. Read more about the event, the course, and more in the Star Tribune’s Crashed Ice: Fast and Furious and Sugar, spice and downhill on ice articles and watch a video from Red Bull previewing the event.
You can find information about the schedule, rules, event FAQs, and a spectator’s guide on the Red Bull Crashed Ice website.
Hope to see you there wearing your Minnesota RollerGirls gear in support of these two amazing skaters!
Event Schedule:
National Shoot Out, Thursday, 1:30pm - 3pm
100 US qualifiers, including Diamond Rough and Hurtrude Stein, will individually skate down the course; 64 fastest will advance
International Shoot Out, Friday, 12:45pm - 2:30pm
75 international qualifiers skate individually down the course; 64 fastest will advance
Elimination Round, Friday, 7pm - 8:30pm
The 128 skaters who advanced will skate in groups of 4, top 2 of each heat advancing
Final, Saturday, gates 4pm, race starts at 7pm
The remaining 64 skaters will skate in groups of 4 until the fastest 4 remain for one final heat and one winner is determined
More News
Seeing Double Recaplet: Rockits beat Dagger Dolls
February 19, 2012
Rockits 106 - Dagger Dolls 45
Seeing Double: the Preview
February 13, 2012
The MNRG return to the Xcel Energy Centre…this time for a remix of the Dolls/Rockits season finale.
Hook, Line, and Sink Her: Minnesota All-Stars rush past Old Capitol City, 362-58
February 07, 2012
In the Minnesota All-Stars’ opening bout of 2012, Iowa City’s best take on the #2-ranked league in the North. Minnesota welcomes Iowa City with a resounding win.
Hook Line and Sink Her: Miss Quitos nose ahead of Loon-a-Ticks, 96-67
February 06, 2012
The Rockit/Garda Belt superteam come back from a 14-point deficit at the half, takes advantage of penalty trouble by the Atomic Bombshell/Dagger Doll skaters and charges ahead for the win.
Hook Line and Sink Her Recaplet: MNRG takes out Old Capitol, Miss Quitos overcome the Loon-a-Ticks
February 04, 2012
MNRG All-Stars 362 - 58 OCCRG, Miss Quitos 96 - 67 Loon-a-Ticks
