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Resume
- 2015 US Bicycling Hall of Fame Inductee
- UCI Mountain Bike World Champion 2001
- UCI Tissot Mountain Bike World Cup Champion 2002
- Olympic Games 2000: mountain bike, 7th
- Olympic Games 1996: road race, 38th
- Pan American Games: gold medallist (cross country) 1999
- U.S. National cross-country champion: 2004, 2002, 1999
- U.S. National short-track cross-country champion: 2004, 2002,1999
- U.S. National cyclo-cross champion: 1997-01, 03
- U.S. National Road and Omnium Collegiate champion: 1991
- U.S. Olympic Festival gold medallist (road race) 1993
- UCI Tissot World Cup: 2nd overall, 2000
- World Mountain Bike Championships: 1994, 1997-2002, 2004
- World Road Cycling Championships: 1993-94 (bronze), 1998-99
- World Cyclo-Cross Championships: 2004 (5th) , 2002 (4th), 2000 (7th)
- UCI World Cup wins (mtb): two (cross-country); one in cyclo-cross 2002
- Finished on the podium (top 5) in all UCI World Cup races for 2002, 2000
- National race wins: eight (cross-country), fourteen (short-track cross-country)
- Sea Otter Classic 1st overall 2004, 2003, 2002, 1999, stage winner 1999-2004
- Hewlett Packard International Women’s Challenge (road) stage winner: 1993 1996, 1997, 2001
- Redlands Cycling Classic (road) 1st overall, one stage win: 2000, 1996
- Tour of Willamette (road) 1st overall, two stage wins: 2001
- Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame Inductee (2003)
- VeloNews North American Female Cyclist of the Year (2002, 1999)
- Bicycle Retailer and Industry News Female Athlete of the Year (2002)
- Colorado Sports Hall of Fame Amateur Athlete of the Year (2001)
- Colorado Sportswoman of the Year (2001)
- Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph Athlete of the Year (2001)
- Colorado College Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee (2000)
- Named to the Top Ten Greatest Colorado Female Athletes of All Time by the Denver Post 1999
- U.S. Olympic Committee Athlete of the Month (June 1997, December 1999, - December 2000, September 2001)
- USA Cycling’s nominee for 1998-99, 2001 USOC SportsWoman of the Year
- USA Cycling’s nominee for the 2001 Sullivan Award
- Three-time VISA/USA Cycling Elite Mountain Bike Female Athlete of the Year (1997-99)
- National Mountain Bike A Team (1999-2002)
- 1987 Valedictorian Smoky Hill High School (Aurora, Colo.)
- MVP and all-league soccer player at Smoky Hill
- 1991 graduate of Colorado College in Colorado Springs, CO (B.A., biology)
- Laura Golden Award recipient for Outstanding Female Athlete at CC
- Stage win at 1996 La Grand Boucle Feminine (women’s Tour de France) was first by American since 1989
- Won the NORBA National Championship and UCI World Cup Overall Championship in 2002 while competing with a broken wrist
- Began professional mountain biking career in 1997
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