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They continued to work on their training and build on their actual derby skills.
Eventually, a training committee was formed and small teams were chosen. It was time
to recruit more girls and bring on a team of referees and support staff. With a booth at
the Slam City Jam, and a shared booth with the already formed Edmonton Oil City Derby
Girls at the 2006 Calgary Tattoo Convention, they were able to find some new recruits
and begin practicing real game play.
One year of practicing later, the Calgary Roller Derby Association hosted their first
friends and family bout. They hosted two of these events at the Triwood Arena and
Legacy sports to adjust to playing of a crowd. The teams that existed at this time were
the Thrashin’ Lassies, the Cut Throat Car Hops and the Girl Grinders.
The league’s first public game took place at the 2007 Tattoo Convention in teams that
were mixed from girls on all three teams who had made their skating benchmarks. The
mixed teams that were formed that day were the Bloody Marys and the Black
Sabbathas.
After that, the league started to gain their footing in Calgary and started hosting regular
practices at Legacy Sports in the winter and the Triwood Arena in the summer months.
It quickly became apparent that the league was not large enough quite yet to support
three teams, and the decision was made to absorb the Girl Grinders in to the other two
existing teams. The original two teams, the Thrashin’ Lassies and the Cut Throat Car
Hops, are still in play today.
In the first season, the Car Hops dominated and won every game of the season except
for the finale. In the final game, the Lassies came out on top.
The second season saw the creation of a third team to accommodate all of the new
members that had hit their benchmarks. This team was called the Bella Bombshellas,
which morphed in to the Blitzkrieg Bellas, and eventually settled in to the name they go
by today, the B-52 Bellas.
In the second season, the reverse of the first season happened. The Thrashin’ Lassies
dominated until their final game, where they lost to the Cut Throat Car Hops. They still
took the title of season champions. The B-52 Bellas would not go down without a win
though- they beat the Car Hops in their final game of the season.
The Thrashin Lassies came back strong in the 2009/2010 season and were undefeated
during regular season play. The championship game saw 3 first string players from the
B-52 Bellas supplementing the ranks of the Cut throat Car Hops to give the Lassies a run
for their money. After a very close and physical game, the Lassies clinched the
championship, securing their undefeated streak.