I picked her brain about it and it was super helpful. She helped us with some course recon on the Worlds course with the USA Cycling team. She’s always super, super chill to talk to, super relatable in the sense that she’s been through it as a junior. Seeing her congratulate me is like ‘wow’, someone I look up to saying I have done a good job. She’s one of the biggest women’s cyclists that are making it in Europe, so I’m still a little bit in awe. She’s always an amazing person to talk to, to ask advice. She noticed! She lives in California and I have ridden with her numerous times. MM: I can tell you that when I saw the notification on my phone, I definitely jumped up a bit. What was that like to receive a message from her? Lux made sure we got as much racing as we could to get ready for Europe.ĬN: You got an “atta girl” on social media from US Olympian Coryn Labecki, who has more than 70 national titles, after landing on the podium the second day at Armed Forces alongside Maggie Coles-Lyster (DNA Pro Cycling) and Kendall Ryan, beating Skylar Schneider in the sprint for third. Those races are a little different, but it’s still the same thing in that I am bumping elbows, going fast through corners, so it taught me a lot. Crit racing, that bumping of elbows and going as hard as you can for an hour, was basically training me for the races I did in Europe. The constant racing was just huge in that it teaches how to race. I think that all that racing, and all that racing with my team, was really beneficial for me because it taught us how to work together. ![]() I thought it was really cool that now I am racing against them, and getting podiums with them which was super amazing. MM: I think the crit racing that I did was pretty significant in the sense that I was sprinting against people like Skylar Schneider and Olivia Ray and Kendall Ryan, which are people I grew up watching. What were your highlights from the crit races you did? ![]() Across 22 days of racing on the road, you had 18 podiums, including third place finishes at USA Cycling Pro Road Tour events Armed Forces Cycling Classic, Tulsa Tough, and a top five in the elite category of Into the Lion’s Den. It’s just something else! It’s just something to be proud of.ĬN: Your summer programme was mainly criterium racing in the US. And being able to win in that jersey, I don’t even know how to explain it. I see the national championship as having some respect for that person. First, I won the national championship and I get to represent the United States and I’m going over to Europe they’ll all know who I am right when I put that on. It shows that I am representing my country and it was something that I worked for and the stepping stone of what I wanted. I’m so excited for that!ĬN: It was a big year for you in 2021 at US national championships, where you won the stars-and-stripes jersey in the women’s junior (17-18) road race, and took silver in junior time trial and bronze in the junior criterium. Now that I am able to grow with some of my mentors. Because of COVID, everything was pushed back so late that I was a little nervous that I wouldn’t be able to showcase my talents over in Europe and I am super excited that I was able to. But I’m really excited that Lux was able to take me over to Europe and then I was able to showcase some of my talents on a bigger scale, because obviously it’s kind of hard to do that over here with just the crit racing and crit scene. I had resigned myself to stay with Lux for a couple of years, maybe taking it slower. It was so late in the year, I think, and it happened so fast I didn’t know that I was going to make that jump. Tell us about your last year on the development team and preparing to jump to elites. Rally Cycling adds developing talents Kaia Schmid and Makayla MacPhersonĬN: Fast forward 12 years and you have just made a big move from racing as a junior with Lux/Sideshow p/b Specialized to signing a pro contract to race for Human Powered Health. Rally women’s team apply for Women’s World Tour license for 2022 ![]() ![]() Rally Cycling to become Human Powered Health
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