Your Bleeding Heartland Roller Girls participate for a second year in the annual 4th of July Parade in Bloomington, IN.
Parade Celebrates Nation’s Birthday
“It rained on the parade, but the precipitation didn’t impede Bloomington’s celebration of birth of the United States of America.
…Regardless of the rain, people lined the street to see the big trucks and tractors. The Bleeding Heartland Roller Girls roller derby team, sans skates, bumped and jostled each other as if at the rink…”
-By Mercedes Rodriguez, Herald Times
July 4th, 2008
The Bleeding Heartland Rollergirls were featured on the local news from Terra Haute’s WTHI with newscaster Mark Allen. Click on the image to play the video.
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Today's roller derby is a rough, tough, athletic competition, but with enough trash-talkin' attitude, wipeouts and injuries, and short skirts and fishnets to keep audiences of all ages on the edge of their seats.