Team Finland roller derby jersey given to Justin Campoy, Assistant Coach of Team USA
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Team Finland roller derby jersey given to Justin Campoy, Assistant Coach of Team USA as a thank you for organizing the USA's first games and training camps outside of North America. The games were held in Helsinki Finland where the USA played Sweden and Finland and held a multi day training camp in September of 2012.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Modern roller derby began in 2001 after four teams were formed and founded under the Bad Girls Good Women Productions (BGGW) name. In 2002, the flat track derby, Texas Rollergirls was formed from 65 members of the first BGGW teams after a disagreement over management practices caused a permanent split. BGGW took the remaining 15 skaters and became the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls forming a banked track league. A truly grass roots movement, the flat track derby uses a not-for-profit organizational model with female identifying skaters running the leagues and using their own money to buy rink time, produce tournaments, and print programs, putting any money earned, back into the organization.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Roller Derby
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Women
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0187.02
label: accession number
content: 2016.0187
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0187.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: roller derby jersey
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, lamee (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 in x 16 in; 68.58 cm x 40.64 cm