Hot Wheel Roller Derby
| Metro area | Leeds |
|---|---|
| Country | England |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Teams | Hot Wheel A Team; Hot Wheel B Team; Intraleague Teams: Unicorns and Wolfpack |
| Track type(s) | Flat |
| Venue | The Edge, Leeds University University of Leeds |
| Affiliations | UKRDA |
| Org. type | Non-profit Sports Group |
| Website | https://www.facebook.com/HotWheelRollerDerby?fref=ts |
Hot Wheel Roller Derby (HWRD) is a roller derby league based in Leeds, in England. Founded in 2010, the league consists of a two women's teams, which compete against teams from other leagues.
By mid-2011, the league had more than forty skaters. In May 2012, the league travelled to Germany, where it beat the Stuttgart Valley Roller Girlz B team in front of a crowd of 1,200 fans. In July, they narrowly lost to the Middlesbrough Milk Rollers, in the final of the Great Yorkshire Showdown tournament where they had been ranked last the previous year.
Into 2013 and Hot Wheel are now taking on some of the toughest teams in Europe despite losing several much-loved members. March 2013 sees their European Roller Derby ranking at 19th. By September 2013 they had risen to 16th, despite the toughest teams they'd played to date. Notable events included a Parisian Themed after party at Santiago's in Leeds; Hot Wheel's Battle of the Bands; pregnant founding members; Unity Day in Leeds; judging the Movember Moustache Contest in Fab Cafe; providing security at Thought Bubble Comic Convention in Leeds for the third year running; going to Dublin at the end of year.
2014. Hot Wheel have had an incredible year: visiting Paris in a weekend; supporting our players as they tried out for Team England (roller derby); cheering our Head Coach Jerry Attric on as Coach for the Men's Team England where they came second in the world; the Hot Wheel B Team have played their first four bouts (and have big plans are ahead for the following season!); being the highest ranked all-female team at Sur5al.
Hot Wheel are still recruiting skaters, NSOs and refs.
Rankings and Bout Updates Updates for the previous years and individual bout scores can be seen here:
Training Update! Hot Wheel have moved to new training grounds at Kippax Leisure Centre on Sundays from 11am - 3pm where they typically do drills and skills for all abilities of skaters and often assessing newer skaters for their Minimum Skills, followed by two hours' scrimmage. Other teams have joined these sessions regularly to have friendly mixed scrimmages, these including Rainy City, Lincolnshire Rolling Thunder and Leeds Roller Dolls. They train again at Kippax on a Tuesday night from 8pm - 10pm which is another scrimmage session. Thursday night's training is in Leeds at the Ramgarhia Sikh Sports Centre [2] from 8pm - 10pm. Usually, this training includes an off-skates fitness session followed by drills and skills. Thursday sessions work for all abilities, but are more directed at newer skaters who will be provided with a training buddy to help them through their minimum skills.
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