The Cape Fear Roller Girls held a fundraising golf tournament Saturday, Sept. 20 at the Echo Farms Golf Club with the goal of funding a trip to Florida for a Sept. 27 game against the Fort Myers Derby Girls.
Team member Tara Arnette said they likely raised several hundred dollars, which will help pay travel costs, and also go toward renting practice space at Scooter’s Skating Center and Jellybeans Family Skate Center.
The team also rents the Cape Fear Community College Schwartz Center for home games, the next of which — a double header — will be Oct. 11 when it takes on the Black Rose Rollers from Pennsylvania and the Carolina Bootleggers from Raleigh.
“We’re fairly evenly matched, so it should be a pretty good game,” Arnette said during a Sept. 20 phone interview.
Arnette said the games are exciting, with hard hits and fast skating, but the environment is very family-friendly. She said they have a wide variety of people at their home games, so they make sure to explain the rules beforehand.
“It can be kind of confusing,” she said, “so we do a demo at the beginning so people know what’s going on and have an idea of how the game is played.”
The game will be $10 online presale and $12 at the door, and a food truck will be cooking on site.
Arnette said the popularity of roller derby has grown in the last several years.
“It seems like every town in the United States has a team now,” she said.
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