First State Skate Club diamond
✦ Welcome to the rink ✦

First State
Skate Club

The lights are low, the floor is glowing, and Delaware has a winter sport again. Race team, shuffle crew, speed shop — and a seat in the members' area with your name on it.

Meet & Greet Sessions

Inside the club

One club, two portals and a shop. Pick your door — speed, shuffle, or both.

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Speed Portal — Delaware Ignite

Delaware Ignite is the club's speed team, and it lives on its own site: skater profiles, race-night standings, the weekly rhythm. The Flyers race in three tiers — Spark kids to a travel elite — and a second Flyers team opens in phase two, so the two teams race each other all winter.

Enter the Speed Portal →
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Shuffle Portal — Sticks & Stones

The adult shuffle crew under the disco lights, with Twigs & Pebbles for the kids — the crew's own page: what shuffle is, crew nights, and how to join. Battles, crew nights, the light show the way it used to be.

Enter the Shuffle Portal →
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The Speed Shop

Skates, wheels, bearings, big duffel bags, hats — a real one-stop shop in the back of the rink. Member pricing beats anywhere else. Skaters buy where they skate.

Step Inside →

Delaware Ignite — Speed

Spark is where the fire starts — our youngest racers, roughly 8–12, their own skates (or rink rentals) and a helmet is all they need. Then League racing under the lights every Wednesday, and a travel team carrying Delaware up and down the coast. Standings, rivalries, a championship — a real season, October 1 to April 1.

Visit DelawareIgnite.com →

The nights

MON · Practice

6:00–8:30 PM — coaching night, all tiers

WED · Race Night

6:30–9:00 PM — the weekly card, lights up

SUN · Crew Night

5:30–7:00 PM — Sticks & Stones

SUMMER · Daytime

Daytime events & races, workouts when school's out

LESSONS · Thu + Sat

Club instructors inside the rinks' own lesson time — shuffle with music, dance skating, first speed steps. Corey teaches.

Why we exist

Giving back to the community — reviving speed skating and shuffle in Delaware. Every penny goes back into the club. Rink staff skate free, because they're family. And when kids outgrow it — they will, and they should — Spark rotates the next ones in, and the graduates become junior crew and coaches. The floor never empties; it renews. Every race night is filmed, and every skater gets a profile page with their clips, right here.

The Shuffle Portal →

THE GEAR. THE CONES. THE CLUB.

The Speed Shop + partners

Three lines of colors — Club, Ignite, Sticks & Stones — real garments on real photos. Nothing cheesy, ever. Our gear partners, the people we do business with:

Bont · Riedell · Southeastern Skate Supply · RC Sports · Bones Bearings · Roller Derby / Pacer — with Sure-Grip, Luigino, Atom, Labeda, KwiK, Vanilla & Snyder joining as accounts open.

Visit the Speed Shop →

The founding season

IGNITE NIGHT — the Grand Opening kicks off the founding season, and every team in the region is invited. Full seasons run October 1 – April 1. Dues are $60 a month — by the half season ($180) or the full season ($360, kit included). Sign up at the front desk of Dover Skating Center — and come see how fast you are.

Join the club