With the season winding down, BRRG looks to next year and recriuting season. The last of the summer ‘boot camp’ sessions has happened. The wannabe fresh meat skaters have learned how to fall without breaking anything, make sharp turns, stop on a dime and change direction, and get an idea of what they may be […]
The French Broads team of the Blue Ridge Roller Girls travelled to Boone, NC for the very first home bout of the relatively-new Appalachian Roller Girls. The venue was the incredibly well-lit (roller derby is a low light operation most of the time) Holmes Convocation Center on the Appalachian State University campus, the same place […]
Blue Ridge battled it out with the Carolina Hurticanes Saturday night June 4th at the Asheville Civic center. The final score was 152 to 109 in the Hurticane’s favor, though the Blue Ridge team fought a valiant bout. The Carolina Hurticanes are an all star exhibition team with players from many teams throughout the region. We also […]
The Asheville Civic Center was the venue for what turned out to be an incredible evening of roller derby action between the Blue Ridge Roller Girls and the Cape Fear Roller Girls of Wilmington, NC. This was a double header with both teams fielding B teams followed by their all star teams. From the start […]
The Asheville Civic Center was home once again to the season opener of the Blue Ridge Roller Girls. This years opener, a double header, billed as St. Patrick’s Slay, featured the French Broads of BRRG vs Twin City Rollergirls from Champaign/Urbana, IL followed by the BRRG All Stars vs Agusta, GA’s Soul City Sirens. The […]
On January 8, 2011 the Blue Ridge Roller Girls’ French Broads traveled to Greenville, SC to take on URGE, Upstate Roller Girl Evolution. Being close neighbors, there is a lot of cross-border rivalry and intermingled history with the skaters. Some of them train together. Some hate each other. Just another day in Roller Derby. Blue […]
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