Grand Raggidy Roller Girls

Grand Raggidy Roller Girls

Metro area	Grand Rapids, MI
Country	United States
Founded	2005
Teams	All Stars (A team) Attack! (B team) Rapid Assault (C team)
Track type(s)	Flat
Venue	Rivertown Sports
Affiliations	WFTDA
Website	grandraggidyrollergirls.com

The Grand Raggidy Roller Girls is a roller derby league based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Founded in 2005, the league currently consists of three mixed teams which compete against teams from other leagues.

Four of the league's skaters appeared as themselves in the movie Whip It!: Dot Matrix, Shutter Speed, Tamara Hurtsworse, and Jackie Daniels, who was recruited after skating for the mixed-league "Team Awesome" in Los Angeles.^[1]

The league qualified for the 2007 WFTDA Eastern Region Playoffs; they were seeded eleventh and lost in the first round.^[2] They qualified again the following year,^[3] finishing in tenth place.^[4] Following restructuring of the league, they qualified for the 2009 WFTDA North Central Region Playoffs, seeded seventh, but lost all their bouts to finish tenth.^[5]

Season	Q4 ranking[6]	Regionals	Championship
2006	27[7]	—	N/A
2007	24[8]	R1[2]	DNQ
2008	7	10[4]	DNQ
2009	10	10[9]	DNQ
2010	12	DNQ	DNQ
2011	11	DNQ	DNQ

Teams

• Grand Raggidy All Stars
• Attack!
• Rapid Assault

References

1. John Serba, "Grand Raggidy Roller Girls featured in movie 'Whip It'", Grand Rapids Press, 1 October 2009
2. "Heartland Havoc", Ohio Rollergirls
3. Melissa Faliveno, "Once upon a time at Derby in Dairyland...", Isthmus, 15 October 2008
4. "Derby in Dairyland", Flat Track Stats
5. "Brawl of America 2009 North Central Regionals", WFTDA
6. "Current Rankings", WFTDA
7. "12/8/2006 WFTDA National Rankings", WFTDA Archive.org [version of 23 February 2007]
8. "Current WFTDA Rankings", Derby News Network, October 2007
9. "Southern Fried Smackdown 2009 South Central Regionals", WFTDA