Ivy King Imlah (September 7, 1915 – July 12, 2006) was a Canadian American roller derby skater.
[2] In 1935, when the roller derby was first established, King was living on the West Side of Chicago and working at a candy factory wrapping chocolate bars for $4 a week.
[2] She visited Leo Seltzer's office to get a job as a skater, telling him that she could "beat any boy or girl in the city.
[3] The next year, King again won the Transcontinental race, this time with Wes Aronson in front of a crowd of 10,000 at the Chicago Coliseum.
[8] She was described in a 1939 newspaper article as "fast, fiery and—even as she whirls at thirty-five miles an hour around the green, circular banked skating rink—still bespectacled.