Their first season in the WWHL was in 2008-09 and its team founders were Samantha Holmes and Brigitte Lessard.
Holmes and Lessard founded the Strathmore Rockies so that elite level players in Alberta would have another team to compete for.
Part of her accomplishments included player scouting, sponsorship and marketing campaigns to operate the team.
She was also captain of the Rockies and runs local skills clinics in Calgary for young women's players.
[3] In 2011, The Strathmore Rockies and Edmonton Chimos combined to form the new Team Alberta entry into the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) which later became the Calgary Inferno.