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Albany All Stars Roller Derby (AASRD) is a flat track roller derby league based in Albany, NY. AASRD was founded in 2006 and is the capital region’s first all-woman roller derby league. The league is comprised of over 60 skaters who make up AASRD’s interleague and intra-league teams.

AASRD is made up of three home teams, the Department of Public Hurts (DPH), the Empire Skate Troopers (EST) and the Capital City Legislayers (CCL). The league also has three inter- league teams, designated as the Albany All Stars A, B, C and D teams.

AASRD is a incorporated as a LLC.

Home Teams
Each active member of AASRD is eligible to be drafted to a home team.


 * The Empire Skate Troopers - Founded ________.


 * The Department of Public Hurts - Founded __________.


 * The Capital City Legislayers - Founded 2010.

Interleague Teams
Additionally, the league fields two interleague teams:


 * The Albany All Star’s A Team


 * Albany All Stars B Team

2010 Season
AASRD was made of up three home teams, DPH, EST and CCL as well as two interleague teams, an A Team made up of the league’s best players and a B team made up of all other skaters.

The Empire Skate Troopers won the intra-league championship by a narrow margin of ______ points against the Department of Public Hurts. The score was tied in the third quarter when jammer B-Side Blaze managed to score ____ points to win the bout.

The AASRD A Team competed in the Empire Skate Showdown, earning ________ place. AASRD also sent its B Team to Triple D, a derby competition in Oswego, NY and placed ___________. The B Team also traveled to Rochester, NY to play the Roc City B Sides with a final score of _________ Rochester / __________ Albany.

The end of this season also saw the retirement of one of the founding members of AASRD, Dottie Damage.

2011 Season
AASRD changed the time and format of its 2011 season. Instead of beginning in January the season began on September 24th with the season opener. Traditionally, the first half of the season was intra-league, with the three home teams playing each other and the second half was interleague, where the A and B teams played other leagues. This year, the first half of the season was dedicated to interleague play with the second half, beginning in January, being devoted to intra-league games.

AASRD broke up into four teams for its interleague season. This teams were designated the A, B and C/D teams. The A and B teams were eligible to bout other leagues of similar skill levels while the C/D team was ineligible to bout.

During the first half of the season AASRD played Black River Roller Derby’s Nitro Rollers, Roc City’s B Sides and the Beasts of the East, a compilation team made up of A-level skaters from across New York State. This team included V-Diva, one of the 28 members of the USA’s World Roller Derby Team.

Retired numbers
10K - Dottie Damage

In May 2010, the league retired the uniform number of league founder Dottie Damage. Her uniform now hangs in AASRD’s practice space the Ironworks.