"My phone number was on the back of it for three months, and it said 'Want to play roller derby?'" Stegeman recalls. "I would personally just answer phone calls and round up people." This was the humble beginning of what would transform into a thriving roller derby community.
"I think at that first meeting it was more than 60 people. It was like, that boom moment," Stegeman says, reminiscing about how a wild idea to start a league led to the creation of the Rose City Rollers.
"Largely it was women in their mid-20s, a lot of us who were kind of starting careers," Stegeman explains. "But I think we all had kind of a sense of a need for community and just to have something that was really our own."
The Rose City Rollers evolved into the largest roller derby league in the world, boasting four home teams and a successful all-star team that is set to compete for the Hydra Trophy.
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