Skating

A St. Louisan has built a makeshift ice rink outside her Tower Grove South home. Her kids have spent the past several days playing hockey on the rink. It comes as the city has faced freezing temperatures following the early January snowstorm.

The Olympic qualifying event is the latest in a number of high-profile athletic events that St. Louis has landed for the next couple of years.

With a score of 141-104, Arch Rival ultimately placed second in the tournament after a hard- fought bout against long-standing champions Portland’s Rose City Rollers.

Gabe Montesanti moved to St. Louis to further her education as a writer, but little did she know she would find so much more in the world of roller derby.

Forest Park leaders want to know what visitors to the park think of a plan to make the Steinberg Pavilion and Rink available year-round. Forest Park plans to make substantial renovations to the rink, which has been an attraction for more than six decades.

A historic St. Louis church-turned-skatepark caught on fire in June, leaving just a shell of a building and charred rubble. Skateboarders like Avian Duke no longer have a physical home, but he said the heart of the skating community remains.

Prominent local roller skater Xavier Alexander, known as Professor X, has been skating in St. Louis for more than 25 years.

Skate City is known to have the “smoothest concrete in the United States,” and is East St Louis’ lone skating rink.

SK8 Liborius is an abandoned Catholic church turned skater haven. Now it’s launching a fundraiser to start a youth workforce development and arts program to help the teens who come to skate.

In recent years, St. Louisans have turned abandoned buildings into apartments, art galleries and restaurants. But a grassroots effort has repurposed a…