Fount Biking Guild confirmed veteran sprinter Andrea Cyr might be among the many eight new riders on the 2025 roster for the US-based ladies’s elite racing group. The group strikes right into a fifth season with a 15-rider lineup.
Cyr was second total for elite ladies within the 2023 American Criterium Cup collection with the Miami Nights. She had a blended bag of visitor appearances for racing this previous season when the Nights group, and two different squads owned by the Nationwide Biking League, have been abruptly shut down in April. She scored sixth at Athens Twilight Criterium for Texas Roadhouse Biking and a string of 10 high 10s on the Chicago Grit race collection for Goldman Sachs ETFs.
“Andrea Cyr was an apparent alternative. Moreover her wonderful character, she brings management, expertise, and a courageous, gritty sort of racing to assist mentor and produce energy and management to the squad,” Jennifer Wheeler, the group co-owner who’s an energetic member of the roster, advised Cyclingnews.
“When she attended camp, it was like she had already been on the group without end. It was a seamless match and we will not wait to have her within the fold with the opposite robust returning riders.”
Wheeler is proud that her ladies’s elite group, which operates as a 501c3 non-profit to develop expertise, supplies teaching, gear, race entry charges, journey prices and different assist for group members. The newest expertise camp had 21 riders in attendance from 50 US candidates.
“I feel our greatest differentiator as a ladies’s professional group is that we aren’t a rinse and repeat group from these already on the professional circuit and put a whole lot of assets into discovering expertise outdoors of the professional biking world in different sports activities and take probabilities on folks with potential and few outcomes.”
Dr. Cyr, who’s a medical director at Indianapolis Rehabilitation Hospital of Carmel in Indiana, attended a latest expertise camp held on the group’s new headquarters in Kentucky. She was a simple choice for Wheeler, who additionally added Allison Edgar (20), Brooklyn Raddin (18), Catherine Van Doorn (34) and former motocross competitor Lauren Baker Smith (36) from expertise camps.
“I will be becoming a member of the very robust Fount Biking group. Their ardour, dedication, and work ethic are already influencing me. Large issues are within the works for subsequent season with this wrecking crew. May see this group in a number of extra crits subsequent 12 months too,” Cyr posted to Instagram.
Belgian Eleanor Wiseman strikes from Baloise-WB Girls after she gained third on GC at Tour of the Gila as a visitor rider with Fount final 12 months. Dani Audino is a US Marine off the bike and has competed on the Armed Forces Triathlon Championship. She moved to class 2 degree on her highway bike a 12 months in the past. Additionally added to the roster for cyclocross expertise from junior mountain biking is 16-year-old Bella Kroutil.
Returning to the roster is a bunch of US riders: Alia Shafi, who was second on the ITT stage and fifth total at Tour of the Gila final 12 months; Ellexi Snover, who was thirty second at Large Sugar Gravel; Elizabeth Dixon, stage winner at Tour of the Gila; Andre Buttine, Marj Minagawa and Wheeler.
Riders will compete throughout a number of disciplines in 2025, the US highway marketing campaign starting at Redlands Bicycle Basic in California in April. A number of riders will return to gravel, together with Unbound Gravel in Kansas on the finish of Could.
Fount Biking Guild roster 2025
- Dani Audino (USA)
- Lauren Baker Smith (USA)
- Andrea Buttine (USA)
- Andrea Cyr (USA)
- Elizabeth Dixon (USA)
- Allison Edgar (USA)
- Bella Kroutil (USA)
- Minori Minagawa (USA)
- Brooklyn Raddin (USA)
- Marj Rinaldo (USA)
- Alia Shafi (USA)
- Ellexi Snover (USA)
- Catherine Van Doorn (USA)
- Jennifer Wheeler (USA)
- Eleanor Wiseman (Belgium)
