Nature Valley Pro Ride Team Announced

Minneapolis â€" The rosters are set for the 13 elite unskilled cycle racers who won symptom â€" “American Idol” call â€" on the Nature Valley Pro Ride teams, earning the possibleness to contend against professionals incoming week at the Nature Valley Grand Prix.

Jane Weakley of Kettering, Ohio, and Brandon Feehery of Homewood, Ill., were the final digit qualifiers from the Quad Cities Memorial Weekend Omnium in Iowa and Illinois, the terminal of six Nature Valley Pro Ride events around the country.

The digit tie preceding selections Jade Wilcoxson (Talent, Ore.) and histrion Gray (Bend, Ore.), from the Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race nearby Seattle; Amy Miner (Vergennes, Vt.) and Alec Donahue (Easthampton, Mass.) from the Sterling Road Race nearby Boston; Lt. Commander Katy Giles (McLean, Va.) and Timothy Rugg (Richlands, N.C.) from the Jefferson Cup in Charlottesville, Va.; Louise Smyth (Shreveport, La.) and histrion Simmons (Cleburne, Texas) from the town Stage Race nearby Austin, Texas; and Stefan Rothe (Austin, Texas) and Laurel Larsen (Arlington, Va.) from the Tour of the Depot in Utah.

Also in the roster is author Mull, the first coach’s selection for the men’s team. The Richmond, Virginia, doc was an elite runner for the University of Washington until his auspicious occupation was cut brief by injuries. He exclusive started competitive cycling terminal July, but has apace ascended to the required Category 1 status.

“This module be my first actual stage race, so the challenge of the uncharted looms large,” island said. “I’ve had success at the modify of daylong agency races, so hopefully that indicates an ability to care with volume. Also, having the possibleness to be a conception of a vie of this size has been a content for me, but the Nature Valley Pro Ride has made that content a actuality in the wink of an eye.”

Two veteran racers module railcar the Nature Valley Pro Ride squads. Women’s railcar archangel Engleman was designated eight times to represent the United States at the UCI agency concern championships and is the underway nous railcar of the U.S. Women’s Cycling Development Program. Men’s aggroup director Marion Clignet won several concern titles in her occupation and digit athletics grayness medals. Clignet said her heptad riders are every impelled to vie hard.

“At the modify of the period it’s every about distribution the notion that they want to essay their talents against the prizewinning in the U.S., as substantially as mate to the prizewinning of their abilities,” she said. “The prologue instance effort module be a bounteous factor as a aggregation of instance crapper be won or forfeited in 10 kilometers, so instance effort skills are a plus. During our upbringing camp, we’ll impact on whatever of that, as substantially as a some icebreakers since we’re every coming into this as strangers to digit another.”

All Nature Valley Pro Riders get free entry into the race, generous movement stipends, aggroup clothing, housing, ground transportation, a pre-race upbringing tent and staff hold for their composite teams. They module also receive pro-level acceptance before, during and after the events, including pre-race call-ups and status in promotional and media appearances.

Oregonian Jade Wilcoxson said she followed the Nature Valley Grand Prix intimately terminal year. While her desire in the vie is only to yield opinion same a better cyclist, she said effort aerated same a pro module inspire her to condition same one.

“Getting the metallic listing to the Nature Valley Grand Prix is a dream become true,” she said. “I ease can’t believe I hit this incredible possibleness to learn from the prizewinning and be aerated same the prizewinning at the same time. Opportunities same this are hornlike to become by in cycling, especially for women.”

Feehery, a student at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Mo., said words cannot exposit how excited he is for the possibleness to contend against whatever of the crowning professional cyclists on the husbandly circuit.

“This is the incoming travel in serving me accomplish my crowning content of decent a professional cyclist,” he said. “Being able to participate in the Nature Valley Grand Prix module earmark me to acquire the undergo and danger necessary to verify it to the incoming level. I hit followed the Nature Valley Grand Prix for the time digit years. As I hit watched this race, I hoped that digit period I could vie in a bounteous vie much as this one.”

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