Harbor Girls Hamburg
| Harbor Girls Hamburg | |
|---|---|
| Club data | |
| Umbrella association: | FC St. Pauli |
| Founded: | 2008 |
| Seat: | Hamburg |
| Members: | 109 (2019) |
| Website: | https://www.stpaulirollerderby.de |
The Harbor Girls Hamburg , as A-Team St. Pauli Roller Derby ( SPRD ), are the flat-track roller-derby department of FC St. Pauli and since 2016 a full member of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA).
Just like the umbrella club, the Harbor Girls see themselves as a thoroughly political sports club and are committed as ambassadors for a tolerant society free of sexism , racism and homophobia , trans and inter- hostility.
history
The Harbor Girls Hamburg was founded in 2008 as Harbor Girls e. V. on the initiative of the two former players Spooky Spiky and Killing Zoe of the Stuttgart Valley Rollergirlz . The Harbor Girls have been a division of FC St. Pauli since 2014, whereupon the name was changed.
The club has two teams that are deployed differently: The A-team plays in the 1st Bundesliga and plays international WFTDA games under the name St. Pauli Roller Derby . The B-Team denies v. a. Friendlies, but is also listed in the worldwide statistics and placement at Flattrackstats .
Players in the so-called intermediate group are introduced to the B team . New players can start rookie training twice a year . Since 2018 there has also been a junior team for ten to seventeen year olds, the Pirates of St. Pauli .
The home games of the Harbor Girls are usually held in the sports hall of the Christianeum in Hamburg-Othmarschen or the St. Pauli Business School.
Since 2016, the club has organized the so-called KickAss Cup (KAC) every year , an international fun tournament outside of the Bundesliga.
successes
The Harbor Girls A-Team is a founding member of the 1st Bundesliga, which is organized by the Roller Derby Sports Commission in the German Roller Sport and Inline Association .
| season | league | space | Games | S. | N | Point difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1st National League | 3. | 4th | 2 | 2 | +87 |
| 2016 | 1st National League | 2. | 4th | 3 | 1 | +161 |
| 2017 | 1st National League | 3. | 6th | 4th | 2 | +273 |
| 2018 | 1st National League | 2. | 6th | 4th | 2 | +145 |
| 2019 | 1st National League | 3. | 6th | 4th | 2 | +85 |
The following Hamburg players take part in world championships with the German national roller derby team:
- Heavy Miss Gale (World Cup 2011)
- Ostblocker, Jeanne Dark, Knock 'n' Rose and Lotta Loveless (World Cup 2014)
- Ostblocker and Knock 'n' Rose (World Cup 2017)
Others
The Harbor Girls were awarded in December 2016 in the competition “Strong networks against violence!” Of the German Olympic Sports Confederation for their campaign against sexual violence against women. The poster campaign was created on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the Hamburg emergency call for raped women and girls e. V.
The Derby Digger , a fanzine for roller derby culture, has been published in the Harbor Girls environment since 2018 .
The running-in music of the A-Team is the song Boys Wanna Be Her (album Impeach My Bush ) by the Canadian electroclash singer Peaches .
Web links
- Website of the Harbor Girls Hamburg
- Harbor Girls at Flattrackstats: A-Team and B-Team
- Harbor Girls at FC St. Pauli
- Harbor Girls near the city of Hamburg
- Harbor Girls at Derby Position
- Harbor Girls in the MOPO
- Harbor Girls on Spiegel TV (45 min)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harborgirls. IG St. Pauli, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Roller Derby. FC St. Pauli, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Roller Derby Bundesliga. derbyposition.de, accessed on January 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Stefanie Knippertz: The team. In: RollerDerbyGermany.de. 2011, accessed September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Harbor Girls excellent. FC St. Pauli, December 1, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
- ^ Landesfrauenrat Hamburg eV: Campaign of the Hamburg women's emergency call. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .