Born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Willock was introduced to the sport at age fourteen under the guidance and mentoring of her father, Martin Willock, who previously raced for Canada in the men's team time trial at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Her uncle Bernie Willock, the 1980 Canadian road champion, was set to represent the same nation at the Olympic Games in Moscow before his team joined the US-led boycott.[4]
Continuing her family's Olympic tradition, Willock qualified for the Canadian squad in the women's road race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving the nation's third and final berth from the UCI World Cup.[7][8] She successfully completed a grueling race with a thirty-seventh-place effort in 3:33:23, surpassing Australia's Sara Carrigan by a scanty, two-second gap.[9][10]
Following the end of the 2010 season, Willock announced that she would leave Webcor Builders for the TIBCO-To-The-Top pro cycling team under a bi-annual contract. On January 10, 2012, Willock also decided to put her Olympic bid on hold, as she and her husband Tony Zarsadias, a professional road cyclist, were expecting to have their first newborn child shortly before the Olympic Games in London.[12]
Career highlights
2002 – where she won her very very first race ever anywhere – Hartford, CT criterium riding for then top ranked (and steroid free) USA cycling team – Verizon Wireless presented by Cervelo
https://www.bikereg.com/Results/s/15543/hartford-downtown-criterium
Pro/1/2/3 Women
1 Erinne Willock Verizon Wireless-Cervelo 49:56
after having come in second only two weeks prior to the multi time (and future Verizon Wireless rider) Laura Van Gilder at the iconic Bear Mountain race just outside NYC
https://www.bikereg.com/Results/s/15540/bear-mountain-spring-classic
Women 1/2/3 32 Starters 56 Miles
1 Laura Van Gilder Trek Plus
2 Erinne Willock Verizon Wireless
