Okay, to be clear: we are not roller skating at this event. If you are, and are in uniform for the team, we will applaud your achievements!

This is such a fun event – and it might be fun for this to be yet another one of the CMLE member events! Let us know if this is a thing you would like to do; CMLE will pick up the ticket costs for members!

WHAT would we be doing? Attending the SCAR Dolls roller derby home event, against FORX Roller Derby team.

WHEN would we do this? May 18th 2019 “Most home games have a start time of 6pm with doors opening at 5pm, but please visit our facebook page to find more detailed information as it can vary per game.”

WHERE is this excitement? The River’s Edge Convention Center in St. Cloud Minnesota. 

Wait, What? Who are these people?? “The S.C.A.R. Dolls are the one, the only, the original women’s flat track roller derby league in Central Minnesota. We formed in 2011 to create an opportunity for the women in the Saint Cloud area to participate in the challenging, exciting, and empowering revival of modern roller derby.

Roller derby is currently one of the fastest growing sports in the world, with over 1450 amateur leagues currently in existence and new leagues are forming all the time. This is not the exhibitionist, pro-wrestling style derby of the 1970’s, but a fast-paced, hard-hitting sport that the women of the S.C.A.R. Dolls are proud to be introducing to this wonderful community. We are working hard to make our league competitive in order to represent Saint Cloud both home and away.

Besides being talented and tenacious athletes, the S.C.A.R. Dolls are dedicated to giving back to the community through charity partnerships and fundraisers.”

Here’s a quick video of the team talking about their skating work:

WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?? This is not a formal request for your commitment – we are just looking around to see if this is a thing our members might want to try! So if you think you might want to come to this event – comment below, email us at admin @ cmle.org, or tweet to us at @CMLELibs.

We’ll talk about libraries at some point during the evening, I promise! We wouldn’t want you to feel left out of any library-related fun. We can enjoy hotdogs, chips, cheering for the home team, watching kids run around and lose their minds with the excitement – it’s just some noisy fun for all!

If we do this as a member event, we will buy tickets for all members who attend. But there is no reserved seating, and it is definitely a family-friendly event – so also feel free to bring kids, friends, neighbors, or anyone else who might want to have some fun watching some cool skaters with some definitely awesome library people!