From Uncertainty to Opportunity: The Rise of RI Rogues FC

When the RI Reds FC folded, soccer player Shannen Pelletier found herself facing a difficult question: what would happen to women's semi-professional soccer in Rhode Island?

She waited for someone else to step forward. Eventually, she realized no one was coming. "I had only two choices," Pelletier said. "Step up and build it myself, or accept that semi-professional women's soccer in Rhode Island was over."

She could not accept that.