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Missy Giove
An icon of the sport and a leader among women. Missy has appeared on the David letterman show, and has been on the cover of several lifestyle magazines. Since the year Dot (1990 in mountain bike racing history), she has been a high profile athlete known for giving 100% commitment to her racing and her professional career. Her skill, courage and sheer determination have been rewarded by 12 world cup round wins, a World Championship and two World Cup overall titles. more >> |
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Marla Streb
Marla earned a Bachelors in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Maryland... and Masters degree in Marine Biology from the University of Maryland. Taught Human Anatomy and Physiology for two years at the University of Maryland at Baltimore... Studied classical piano at the Peabody Institute... Prior to full-time racing career, worked as an AIDS researcher at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego... Marla now lives part time on her sailboat (named Indifference) anchored in San Francisco Bay, and the rest in her small cottage (Estate of Indifference) in a valley in West Marin County. more >> |
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Elke Brutsaert
"Mountain Ellie," as Schwinn rider Elke Brutsaert is known, is powerful on the bike, but quiet off it. The buff and soft-spoken graduate of the University of Maine has consistently ridden with the best in the world over her decade-long career. The Brutsaerts introduced their little phenom to sports at a young age, towing her about on Nordic skis as a child. Elke would go on to compete as a collegiate heptathlete, and the fateful foot injury on the running track landed her on the bike for rehab. Her talent on two wheels shone immediately. Soon she evolved from road cycling to the dirt and has been a mainstay in the women's dual/downhill scene through the '90s and into the new millennium. more >> |
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Jacquie Phelan
Born in San Francisco CA 1955, Jacquie was a commuting cyclist as a youngster in LA: mom dreaded driving. Despite evidence of athletic potential, JP was steered toward a professional career -- preferably medicine. This provided an ideal challenge for a teenage feminist with authority issues. When she graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont, she moved to San Francisco, worked as an au pair, interned at the Women's Sports Foundation. It wasn't long before she saw the 1976 movie "Breaking Away" and launched herself into road and mountain bike racing. more >> |
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Jen Klish
Jennifer Susan Klish was born in Lansing, Michigan, in 1970, but most of her formative years were spent in Minnesota. At the age of 18, Jen was doing double duty as an aspiring road racer, while working on a philosophy degree at the University of Minnesota. On a sub- zero winter training ride, Jen thought, "I don't have to do this! I'm going to move to California." A few months later, the charismatic diva was living at a friend's house in Oakland, road racing, and wrenching for AFRAM, an organization that hosts the "Ride Across America" bicycle tours. Jen moved to Berkeley, and began working at a co-op bike store called the Missing Link. Her detail oriented, but not freudian, thoroughness led Klish to be the one of the best Bike Mechanics in the Bay Area. She became a cartoonist on the side, and hand-drew advertisements for the Missing Link, which appeared in the San Francisco Bay Guardian and East Bay Express for over 7 years. more >> |
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Cheri Elliott
Cheri Elliott is both a nationally and internationally famed cyclist. She continues to win with the natural tenacity of a true champion with the addition of her newly attained 2000 NORBA National Mountain Bike Championship title. This makes it an unprecedented 14 major National and World titles under her belt, including two time ESPN X-Games gold medallist. more >> |
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Katrina Miller |
Mercedes Gonzales |
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Sari Jorgenson |
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Shaums March
Tai-Lee Muxlow
Helen Mortimer
Leigh Donovan
Tara Llanes
Melissa Buhl |
Giovanna Bonazzi
Heather Schmitz
Gina Hall
Mary Hearn
April Lawyer
Kathy Pruitt
Katja Repo |
Jen Zeuner
Anne-Caroline Chausson
Nolvenn Le Caer
Vanessa Quinn
Alison Sydor
Emma Corbett |
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