PRESS ARCHIVES - 2005
Relive the historic first bouting season of the Rat City Rollergirls by browsing through the press clips that we've collected. 2005 saw an explosion of roller derby in Seattle! For those of you who were with us in this season, we sincerely thank you for your support! Enjoy this collection of historic press about the first bouting season of derby in Seattle. Please note that some of the skaters and contact information that appears in these historic clips is no longer correct. For current contact information please go to our contacts page.


December 5, 2005 - The Rat City Rollergirls show you how we roll in the December 2005 edition of ESPN Magazine.
Lindsay Berra explains the game of roller derby through a six-page spread featuring Rat City Rollergirl photos taken by Dan Winters.

Download the article in PDF form here! 		ESPN
October 17, 2005. The Seattle Times covers the exiting events of the first ever Rat City Rollergirl Championship Bout. Read the article and check out the extra photo gallery of the championship event!

Thanks to Jack Broom for article and Jim Bates for the photos!		 The Seattle Times
October 10, 2005. The Seattle Times takes you behind the scenes to one of our closed practices. Check out the photos of the Rollergirls practicing all the moves we execute at our bouts. Details of the 2005 Season Championship bout are listed.

Thanks to Jack Broom for article and Jim Bates for the photos! 		The Seattle Times
August 9, 2005. Rat City Rollergirls Lorna Boom, DLF Mascot Dr. 5ive, and Holley KnockHers are featured in the Everett Herald article, "Rock and Roll The Derby's Back and They're Jammin"

Thanks to Victor Balta for article!		 The Everett Herald Online
August 6, 2005. Rat City Rollergirl Ann Munition, D.I.Y. entrepreneur of luxurious pin-up girl sheet sets and more was featured in a Seattle Times article, "Bold bedding from West Seattle's Sin in Linen"

Thanks to Nicole Tsong for article! Check out the Sin in Linen website here!		 The Seattle Times
Check out the Press Release for the August 13, 2005 Blacktop Brawl II here! The Rat City Rollergirls Press Releases
May 3, 2005. Rat City Rollergirl Valtron 3000, a molecular and cellular biology graduate at the UW, was featured in the University of Washington Daily in a article titled, "Sweat, Blood and Skates - 1970s revival Seattle, UW student back to the flat track at local roller derby"

Thanks to Dionne Desiano for article!		 The Daily

Rat City Rollergirls Darcy Rant, PamOpticon, Betty Ford Galaxy and Dirty Little Secret are in the May 2005 edition of the Exotic Underground!

Download a scanned version of the article HERE!

Exotic Underground
April 4, 2005. Rat City Rollergirls mommacherry, Fresh Meat Jessi and former rollergirl Kitnrox (Kristin Botuchis) were featured in the Seattle Post Intelligencer "Lifestyle" section in an article titled, "Seattle mothers band together to keep the punk spirit alive"

Thanks to Kristin Dizon for the upbeat and refeshing article about these fabulous moms. We are very proud of all our rollergirl moms. They have two of the toughest jobs on the planet - motherhood and roller derby!		 photo by Jim Bryant, PI
March 28, 2005

the Rat City Rollergirls are on the cover of the Seattle Post Intelligencer!

Check out the post-inaugural bout article:
Rollergirls' first wild rumble wins hearts of fans!

Check out the photos and listen to the audio clip on the website. Thanks to Karen Ducey, Athima Chansanchai and all the people at the Seattle PI that made this article happen!		 the Seattle PI cover March 28, 2005
Our March 26th Inaugural Bout at the Southgate Roller Rink was highlighted in the most coveted section of weekly local Seattle favorite, the Stranger, in the "STRANGER SUGGESTS"!

Thanks to Amy Jenniges, a gal that knows what she is talking about when suggesting that Seattle come check us out!

Look for the March 24th - 30th edition of the Stranger around the greater Seattle area.		 The Stranger Cover
March 2005

Check out the story about us in the March issue of Tablet, a preferred local monthly Seattle culture magazine! Look for copies of the March edition around the greater Seattle area.

The "Rat City Girls Get Rolling on New Season," featuring Hurricane Lilly and JoanJetta from team Throttle Rockets. 		The Tablet Magazine Cover for March 2005
Check out the Press Release for our March 26th Inaugural Bout!
February 19, 2005 - FOX NEWS REPORTS: Roller Derby Making a Comeback!

Check out the story, the photos and video of the hottest sport that ever reinvented itself, featuring Seattle's Rat City Rollergirls and New York's Gotham Girls. 		the Fox News Logo
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