No Coast Roller Derby launches summer home season with three doubleheaders

No Coast Roller Derby opened its 2026 home season at The Ice Box in Lincoln on June 27, kicking off a three-doubleheader summer run built around the Mad Maxines and the Road Warriors. Doors opened at 4 p.m. and the first whistle blew at 5 p.m., with the Mad Maxines facing Wicked City Roller Derby and the Road Warriors meeting Flat Rock Roller Derby in the night’s first home dates.

The schedule gives local fans a clear look at how No Coast wants the summer to unfold. The league says it is Nebraska’s first flat-track roller derby league, founded in 2005, and describes itself as a skater-owned and operated nonprofit organized as a 501(c)(3). Its mission centers on a safe, empowering, inclusive community, and the home slate reflects that structure by keeping both its nationally ranked A team and its B team on the track at home throughout the season.

The second doubleheader is set for July 25, when the Mad Maxines will take on Southern Oklahoma Roller Derby and the Road Warriors will face Brookings Area Roller Derby. The third home date lands Aug. 8, giving Lincoln three chances to see No Coast build rhythm against outside competition at The Ice Box, which promoted the schedule as an action-packed home season.

That setup matters for what fans can watch from one date to the next. The Mad Maxines remain the standard-bearer, the lineup that shows where No Coast stands against outside opponents at the top level. The Road Warriors give the league another competitive lane, one that can turn developing skaters into regular contributors and show how depth is built over the course of a summer rather than in a single showcase.

The home calendar also gives No Coast the kind of repeated local visibility that keeps derby moving between events. Each doubleheader lets the roster evolve in public, with the opener on June 27 setting the tone and the July and August dates extending the same story across Lincoln’s summer.