While the city’s manic roar of packed bars, ballgames and concerts slows to a Sunday hum, the El Paso Coliseum is just beginning to pulse with a crowd ready to see a more radical event altogether. As most citizens trade in their heels and blazers for slippers and Netflix, the girls of Sun City Roller Girls, El Paso’s female banked-track roller derby league, are putting on their war paint and lacing up quad skates to face off against one of the four other teams in their monthly bouts.
Midway into its eighth season, the SCRG league is finding a following in the city by combining the intensity of a contact sport and the energy of a rock show.