Meet Coach Sharon! What's your name and pronouns? Sharon Lee (She/Her) When did you start skating? In 2020 aka the birth of jam-demic skaters 😅 Tell us a bit about your skating history: Most of my journey has been me, myself, and I thanks to lockdown. When...
The Rolla Team
Meet the Rolla Team: Rojen
Meet Rojen! Rojen is our new Community Builder here at Rollerland🤩 Rojen (she/they) has been a constant and colourful presence at Rolla YVR since we first opened our Rollerland facility in December. We are so excited to be working with her to further our...
Meet the Rolla Team: Coach Marcela
Get to Meet Coach Marcela! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rolla Skate Club Vancouver (@rollaskateclubyvr) What's your name? Marcela When did you start skating? November 2020 Tell us a bit about your skating history: I...
Meet the Rolla Team: Coach Loca!
Get to Meet Coach Loca! How do you like to be called? I like to be called by my short derby name "Loca" ( Loca Smoke-Ya) When did you start skating? I started skating 11 Years ago. Tell us a bit about your skating history: Besides skating in my teens, I really started...
Meet the Rolla Team: Coach Cupid!
Meet Coach Cupid (she/they)! 🛼 Coach Cupid has been spreading the joy of rolling at Rolla since 2019. They've taught everything from the kids programs to the derby bootcampers and are especially loved by our adult beginners for their patient and encouraging...
Big Exciting Announcement!
Hey Beautiful Rolla Humans! We’re here today to share some BIG news with you. One of those is pretty crummy but we hope that the other piece of news is so amazingly awesome that it will make the crummy stuff worth it. But first, let’s start this story from the...
Why I Changed My Roller Derby Name
When I had to come up with a roller derby name in early 2008, there were a lot of things I didn’t know. Primarily, I barely knew how to play roller derby. I’d only been training in Terminal City’s “fresh meat” new skater boot camp for about 2 months. I definitely had...
Listen: Into the Wild Podcast with Luludemon and BiznessTime
Check out Rolla Skate Club co-founders Luludemon & BiznessTime, using their government names! They sat down with the Into the Wild Podcast to chat about what it's like to have a business partner. Find the podcast here or play it below, and add it on your...
Brady aka Goldie Lox & Bagel
If you've ever emailed Rolla Skate Club with a question about a Rolla class or an online membership then you've probably already met Brady aka Goldie Lox & Bagel. Brady is our current "Director of Customer Happiness" which means that she answers every email,...
Co-Founder BiznessTime aka Carla Smith
Being active has been Carla's passion since her days of ballet and field hockey as a child. "At University I tried out for the rowing team on a whim. Turns out I loved the camaraderie of the team, and how we had to overcome our physical barriers every single day at...
Co-Founder LuluDemon aka Lucy Croysdill
From an early age Lucy was drawn to a life on eight wheels. “Growing up in London, England I was a lot smaller than other kids my age so I was teased quite a bit at school. To me, being on skates was a way to escape that negativity and it was something physical I...