Oona Varga spent her childhood winters gliding across the ice at Steinberg Skating Rink in her hometown of St. Louis, while summers meant cruising on her roller skates through neighborhood streets. Varga’s love for skating was sparked when a friend bought her a secondhand pair of roller skates from Craigslist. She was hooked from the moment she laced them up at age 8. “When I was younger, roller-skating brought me an immense amount of joy,” she said. “I loved feeling the wind flow through my hair.” But as Varga entered her early teens, skating gradually vanished from her routine —…
