
Stacie Rivera is a local wife and mother; a bookkeeper for a small family owned business. Her husband Jeff is a computer guy and firefighter. They live in an old family house in a neighborhood where kids ride bikes and play from yard to yard. Their children are seventh generation Red Bankers. They are the very model of the American dream. "I love my life. I love living here in this town," Stacie said, "I wouldn't change a thing." But Stacie, one half of a project oriented couple, will admit that as her babies grew into children and now into their tween and teenage years, she wanted to do more. Her brother, an athlete and childhood "sparring partner" of her's, suggested women's roller derby and even bought her a pair of skates. "I had no excuses when he did that," she said. "I just started skating and realized how much I enjoyed it and then I started thinking about joining a roller derby team." Her husband Jeff cautioned her at first that her time was at a premium and her schedule already difficult to adjust. Her solution: to start her own team and build as much of the work and practices around her busy life. She admitted concern for how her new venture would effect her family, but those worries were quickly alleviated, when her husband, an old school street hockey player, joined the team as the coach and her kids became part of the newly formed junior derby skaters. Eight months after inaugurating the Vixens as a non-profit, securing modest sponsorships and arranging <b>...</b>
Red Bank Roller Vixens
Roller Derby
Red Bank NJ
NJ
Stacie Rivera
Jeff Rivera
Driving Jersey
Steve Rogers
Ryan Bott