EF Education–Tibco–SVB is a former women's professional cycling team based in the United States that competed in elite road bicycle racing. The team's main sponsors were EF Education First, TIBCO Software and Silicon Valley Bank. The owner was Linda Jackson, a former professional cyclist.
 Riders at the 2022 Tour de France Femmes | |
| Team information | |
|---|---|
| UCI code | TIB |
| Registered | United States |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Disbanded | 2023 |
| Discipline(s) | Road |
| Status | UCI Women's Team (2010–2019) UCI Women's Continental Team (2020–2021) UCI Women's WorldTeam (2022–2023) |
| Key personnel | |
| Team manager(s) | Linda Jackson |
| Team name history | |
2006 2007–2009 2010–2014 2015 2016–2021 2022–2023 | PABW Powered by TIBCO Team TIBCO Team TIBCO–To The Top Team TIBCO–SVB Tibco–Silicon Valley Bank EF Education–Tibco–SVB |
Team history
editBefore its demise in 2023, Team EF Education–Tibco–SVB was the longest running women's professional cycling team in North America and traced its roots back to the Palo Alto Bicycles Women's (PABW) team. The team was created by Stanford MBA and investment banker, Linda Jackson. Jackson left investment banking in the early 90s to pursue her dream of becoming an Olympian. After becoming Canada's National Champion in 1995, Jackson was selected to represent Canada in the time trial and road race at the 1996 Atlanta Games. She went on to win the bronze medal at the 1996 World Championship Road Race in Lugano, Switzerland and accumulated numerous Canadian national championship titles in the road race and time trial. Cycling gave Jackson so much personally, that when she retired from the sport, she knew she wanted to help other women pursue their cycling aspirations.
Jackson became involved with PABW on a coaching basis in 2004, directed the team in 2005 and then added TIBCO as a sponsor in 2005 in order to help the team grow from a local racing team to a national-level team. Racing as PABW powered by TIBCO in 2006, the team finished the year ranked 36th overall in North America, up from 60th overall the year before. The following year, Jackson added Silicon Valley Bank as a sponsor. Jackson also created the Silicon Valley Cycling Foundation; a 501c3 formed to help develop promising female cyclists into top international competitors. The team soon rose to the top of the North American peloton and then began an expansion into International racing.
In 2008, the Team won both the National Road Race and Criterium (Brooke Miller) and was ranked 4th overall in North America. In 2009, the team became the top team in North America, won the National Road Race (Meredith Miller) and was named Team of the Year by VeloNews. In 2010, the team expanded to racing in Europe. In 2012, Team TIBCO won the National Road Race for the third time in five years with Megan Guarnier. In 2013 and 2014 the team repeated as the top team in North America. In 2015 Silicon Valley Bank became a co-title sponsor and the team added significantly more international events to its race calendar.
In 2017, the Team added four more National Championships to its tally with both Íngrid Drexel (Mexico) and Nicolle Bruderer (Guatemala) scoring double wins in the road race and time trial. 2018 started off with yet another national championship win; this time with new recruit Shannon Malseed winning the Australia National championship road race. In 2019, the team won the Australian national road race championship again, this time with new recruit Sarah Gigante. In 2020, Gigante won another national championship title, this time winning the Australian national time trial championships.
In 2022, the team joined the UCI Women's World Tour and became known as EF Education–Tibco–SVB.[1] During that season, Emma Langley secured overall victory in the 2022 Joe Martin Stage Race after winning the stage 3 time trial, and the team successfully defending the jersey through the final day's criterium stage. [2]
In 2023, Alison Jackson won Paris–Roubaix Femmes in a sprint finish after the break stayed away from the chasing pack[3] – with the team describing the win as the biggest in their history.[4]
At the end of 2023 both SVB and Tibco stopped their sponsorship.[5] EF Education then announced a new women's team (EF Education–Cannondale).[6][7] Veronica Ewers was announced as signing for the new EF Education–Cannondale team.[8] In August 2023 it was officially confirmed that the team will disband at the end of 2023.[9]
Final team roster
edit- As of December 31, 2023.[10]
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Major wins
edit- 2008
- United States National Road Race Championships, Brooke Miller
- 2009
- United States National Road Race Championships, Meredith Miller
- 2010
- Sprints classification Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin, Brooke Miller
- Stage 4 Cascade Cycling Classic, Jo Kiesanowski
- Stage 2 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Ruth Corset
- Gloucester Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
- Providence Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
- Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
- Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Amanda Miller
- 2011
- Overall UCI Track World Cup (Beijing) Omnium, Tara Whitten
- Individual Pursuit, Tara Whitten
- Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, Megan Guarnier
- Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
- Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
- Los Angeles Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
- Los Angeles Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
- 2012
- Prologue The Exergy Tour, Tara Whitten
- 2013
- Overall Joe Martin Stage Race, Claudia Häusler
- Prologue, Claudia Häusler
- Stage 6 Nature Valley Grand Prix, Claudia Häusler
- Stage 1 Cascade Cycling Classic, Claudia Häusler
- Chrono Gatineau, Shelley Olds
- Madison Cup (Points race), Rushlee Buchanan
- Challenge International sur piste (Points race), Jasmin Glaesser
- Challenge International sur piste (Scratch), Rushlee Buchanan
- Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, Claudia Häusler
- Saint Louis Cyclo-cross, Amanda Miller
- 2014
- Tour of America's Dairyland – Giro d'Grafton, Samantha Schneider
- Overall Cascade Cycling Classic, Lauren Stephens
- Mountains classification, Andrea Dvorak
- Prologue, Stages 1 & 2, Lauren Stephens
- Stage 3, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok
- Stage 4, Jo Kiesanowski
- 2015
- Stage 4 (ITT) Tour Femenino de San Luis, Lauren Stephens
Mountains classification Women's Tour of New Zealand, Joanne Hogan
Overall Joe Martin Stage Race, Lauren Stephens
- Stage 1 (ITT), Lauren Stephens
- Stage 3 (ITT) Tour of the Gila, Lauren Stephens
Points classification Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska, Lauren Stephens
- Stage 5, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok
- Stage 2 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lauren Stephens
- Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok
- 2016
- Stage 4 (ITT) Tour Femenino de San Luis, Lauren Stephens
- Stage 4 Joe Martin Stage Race, Lauren Stephens
- 2017
- Stage 2 Tour of the Gila, Lex Albrecht
- Chrono Gatineau, Lauren Stephens
- Winston-Salem Cycling Classic, Lauren Stephens
- Stage 2 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Lex Albrecht
- Stage 4 (ITT) Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Lauren Stephens
Combativity award Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lex Albrecht- 2018
- Stage 5 Redlands Bicycle Classic, Emma Grant
- Stage 3 Valley of the Sun Stage Race, Kendall Ryan
- Stage 1 Tour of California, Kendall Ryan
- Overall Armed Forces Association Cycling Classic, Kendall Ryan
- Clarendon Cup, Kendall Ryan
- 2019
- Stage 2 Joe Martin Stage Race, Shannon Malseed
Overall Tour of the Gila, Brodie Chapman
- Stages 1 & 5, Brodie Chapman
- White Spot / Delta Road Race, Alison Jackson
- Stage 2 Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska, Brodie Chapman
- Stage 2 Women's Tour of Scotland, Alison Jackson
- 2020
- Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lauren Stephens
- Points classification, Lauren Stephens
- Stage 4, Kristen Faulkner
- 2021
- Stage 1 Ladies Tour of Norway, Kristen Faulkner
- Stages 2 & 3 (ITT) Joe Martin Stage Race, Emma Langley
- 2022
Mountains classification Tour of the Gila Kristabel Doebel-Hickok
- Team classification
- Stages 1 & 3 (ITT), Kristabel Doebel-Hickok
- Stage 2 Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs, Veronica Ewers
- Overall 2022 Joe Martin Stage Race, Emma Langley
- Stage 3 (ITT), Emma Langley
- Clasica Femenina Navarra, Veronica Ewers
- 2023
- 1st Paris–Roubaix Femmes, Alison Jackson
National and world champions
edit- 2008
USA Road Race, Brooke Miller- 2009
- USA Road Race, Meredith Miller
- 2010
Australia Road Race, Ruth Corset- 2011
World Track (Omnium), Tara Whitten
Canada Track (Omnium), Tara Whitten- 2012
- USA Road Race, Megan Guarnier
- USA Track (Pursuit), Lauren Hall
- 2015
- USA Criterium, Kendall Ryan
- 2017
Mexican Road Race, Íngrid Drexel- Mexican Time Trial, Íngrid Drexel
Guatemala Time Trial, Nicolle Bruderer- Guatemala Road Race, Nicolle Bruderer
- 2018
- Australia Road Race, Shannon Malseed
- Guatemala Time Trial, Nicolle Bruderer
- Mexican Time Trial, Íngrid Drexel
Oceania Road Race, Sharlotte Lucas- 2019
- Oceania Road Race, Sharlotte Lucas
- 2020
- Australia Time Trial, Sarah Gigante
- 2021
- Australia Time Trial, Sarah Gigante
- USA Road Race, Lauren Stephens
- USA Cyclo-cross, Clara Honsinger
- 2022
Israel Time Trial, Omer Shapira- Israel Road Race, Omer Shapira
- USA Road Race, Emma Langley
- 2023
- Canada Road Race, Alison Jackson
References
edit- ^ Tyson, Jackie. "2022 Team Preview: EF Education-TIBCO-SVB". Cycling News. Cycling News. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ Beard, Clara. "Emma Langley nets Joe Martin Stage Race GC after storming TT performance". Cycling Weekly. Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ Beck, Dan (2023-04-08). "Here's What You Missed from 2023 Paris-Roubaix Femmes". Bicycling. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ "Gallery: A heavenly win in hell". EF Education–TIBCO–SVB. 8 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-09.
we couldn't be more thrilled to see Alison take the biggest win of her career and in our history
- ^ "What the Departure of TIBCO and SVB Could Mean for Women's Team EF Education-TIBCO-SVB". Bicycling. 30 May 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- ^ "EF to sponsor new women's team, future of EF Education–TIBCO–SVB unclear". Canadian Cycling Magazine. 2023-06-08. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ^ Tracy, Will (2023-06-08). "EF Pro Cycling to start and manage its own women's team". Velo. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ^ Hood, Andrew (2023-08-08). "Veronica Ewers brings star power to EF Education-Cannondale". Velo. Retrieved 2023-08-10.
- ^ Hurford, Molly (2023-08-21). "EF Education-Tibco-SVB Team Officially Shutters for the 2024 Season". bicycling.com. Retrieved 2024-04-01.
- ^ "Team EF Education - TIBCO - SVB". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on January 10, 2023. Retrieved April 1, 2024.