Erica Carney

Erica Carney
Personal information
Full nameErica Carney
BornErica Allar
(1985-11-05) November 5, 1985 (age 39)
Fogelsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Team information
Current teamRetired
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Amateur teams
2010Vera Bradley Foundation
2012RideClean/PatentIt.com
2013Care4Cycling p/b Solomon
Professional teams
2009Colavita–Sutter Home
2014–2015Colavita–Fine Cooking[1]
2016–2019Rally Cycling

Erica Carney (née Allar; born November 5, 1985) is an American former professional racing cyclist,[2] who rode professionally in 2009 and between 2014 and 2019 for the Colavita–Fine Cooking and Rally UHC Cycling teams.

Formative years

Born as Erica Allar in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania on November 5, 1985, Erica Carney graduated from Northwestern Lehigh High School in the Northwestern Lehigh School District.[3] She began her amateur cycling career at the age of fifteen at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome (now the Valley Preferred Cycling Center) and rode professionally for the first time in 2008 as a member of Aaron's Cycling Team.[4]

Career

During the mid-2000s, Carney rode in fifty to seventy cycling events per year. In 2006 and 2007, she won the National Criterium Championship (Under 23 category); in 2008, she finished tenth in the Commerce Bank Liberty Classic.[5]

Major results

2007
2nd Keirin, Australian National Track Championships[6]
2008
10th Liberty Classic
2009
1st Clarendon Cup
2010
2nd Criterium, National Road Championships
2012
1st Sunny King Criterium
1st TD Bank Mayor's Cup
3rd Overall Tour of America's Dairyland
2013
1st TD Bank Mayor's Cup
2nd Sunny King Criterium
2014
1st Tour of Somerville
2nd Criterium, National Road Championships
2nd Overall Tour of America's Dairyland
2nd Sunny King Criterium
4th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
2015
1st Overall Tulsa Tough
1st Stages 1 & 3
3rd Sunny King Criterium
2017
1st Criterium, National Road Championships
2nd Sunny King Criterium
2018
2nd Athens Twilight Criterium

See also

References

  1. ^ Soladay, Tom. "2019 men's and women's rosters". Rally UHC Cycling. Circuit Sport. Archived from the original on January 22, 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2019.
  2. ^ "From bike to chalkboard – the Erica Carney story". Rally UHC Cycling. Circuit Sport. October 21, 2019. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
  3. ^ "Banged-Up Tiger," in "Race Notebook." Allentown, Pennsylvania: The Morning Call, June 4, 2008, p. C3 (subscription required).
  4. ^ Rittenhouse, Amanda. "Pro, amateur cyclists to wheel into W. Chester." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3, 2008, p. L14 (subscription required).
  5. ^ Rittenhouse, "Pro, amateur cyclists to wheel into W. Chester," The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3, 2008.
  6. ^ Flynn, John Michael (February 11, 2007). "Kersten wins gold in kilo and omnium". Cyclingnews.com. Knapp Communications. Retrieved June 19, 2022.