The Southpointe Amateur Hockey Association was founded in 1995 as part of the hockey boon in Western Pennsylvania.  The success of the Pittsburgh Penguins had also led the team to maximize their on-ice success with a new practice facility, focusing on a new business park in Cecil Township called Southpointe.  The Iceoplex at Southpointe was originally planned to be two sheets of ice, but building costs and construction delays limited one side for use primarily as inline hockey, indoor soccer, and indoor lacrosse.  The facility opened in 1995 with one sheet of ice to use, and the youth association was ready for operation, entering PAHL that same year.

Southpointe was the first PAHL organization in Washington County, filling a geographic void that ran from the South Hills to Morgantown.  The team was originally nicknamed the "Rink Rats," labeled that by rink manager Dave Hanson after his recent ties to the AHL's Albany River Rats.  The organization changed is name in 2021 to the South Pittsburgh Hockey Club, and with that, the Southpointe Rink Rats became the South Pittsburgh Rebellion.

The departure of the Penguins as a rink tenant and various ownership struggles over the years did not deter the rink nor the amateur organization from remaining steady, and a change in rink ownership in 2022 renamed the rink as Printscape Arena at Southpointe.  Accompanying changes finally made that second sheet of ice become a reality in 2023, and in turn, the Rebellion are becoming one of the larger organizations in the PAHL.