The Las Vegas High Rollers Roller Derby Team is Vegas’ elite banked track team, founded in 2005 by Lali Outhoummountry after Lou Sanchez, a former Roller Games skater, gifted the team the banked track.
We’re bringing back the golden age of banked track roller derby, where grit meets spectacle and every game is a show worth remembering. Our style isn’t about blending in with modern leagues—it’s about honoring the roots of derby as performance art on wheels.
On our track, competition collides with showmanship. Skaters are athletes, performers, storytellers, and warriors. We skate fast, hit hard, and put on a show that captures the raw spirit of the original roller derby—revived, re-imagined, and ready for a new generation.
Join us at the edge of sport and spectacle. This is banked track roller derby, reborn.
Founder
Lali Outhoummountry, better known as Lali-O, started professionally skating, and trained in Downtown LA, Chinatown in 2002. Her first game was L.A Stars V.S. Texas Outlaws in 2004.
However, the love for roller derby came when she grew up watching it on TV, and pretended to play out a game. She admired skaters like Judy Arnold (Raquel Welch’s body double in the movie ‘Kansas City Bomber’) and the late Judy Sowinski.
Her commitment to roller derby led her to being the Captain for San Francisco Bay Bombers until the death of the legendary promoter Dan Ferrari in 2016.
However, Lali-O has continued the legacy of roller derby by training future skaters in her own backyard currently!
Our Banked Track
The Las Vegas High Rollers skate on the only banked track in Las Vegas, and one of the few remaining on the west coast. The track had been featured in the movie “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” and was virtually destroyed by a mighty wind storm in June 2008. The historic track was restored and has been maintained, for the love of the sport, by the hands of Lali, her husband and volunteers.
The History of Banked Track Roller Derby
Roller Derby began in the 1930s as an endurance skating event but quickly transformed into a fast-paced, full-contact sport. By 1939, the action moved onto the banked track, where angled turns amplified speed and excitement.
From the 1940s through the 1970s, Roller Derby exploded in popularity. Teams like the Bay Bombers, T-Birds, and Chiefs packed arenas and drew millions of television viewers. The banked track gave the game its signature drama, blending competition, athleticism, and performance.Though its mainstream spotlight faded in the 1980s, the banked track remains the original stage of Roller Derby. Modern leagues keep this tradition alive, honoring the history while bringing new energy to a sport built on speed, strategy, and showmanship.
Tribute
The RRDS Las Vegas High Rollers would like to take a moment to honor and pay tribute to all who have skated, supported, and built the tradition of original roller derby.
From our guardian angels who watch over us, to our past and present skaters, referees, announcers, medics, promoters, and owners – each of you gave your time, your energy, and your heart to this game. For that, we thank you.
It is because of your discipline, your dedication, your respect, and your love of roller derby that we have the privilege to carry on this legacy today, on the very same kind of banked track that you once ruled.
Just like you did, we come together to push boundaries, to test our limits, and to skate with that same fire – fast, fierce, and fearless.
We are proud to follow the lines you laid before us, and we promise to keep the excitement, the toughness, and the high-speed spirit of this game alive.
To all who came before us: this is for you.
