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.
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Erica Carney |
| Born | Erica Allar November 5, 1985 Fogelsville, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Disciplines |
|
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2010 | Vera Bradley Foundation |
| 2012 | RideClean/PatentIt.com |
| 2013 | Care4Cycling p/b Solomon |
| Professional teams | |
| 2009 | Colavita–Sutter Home |
| 2014–2015 | Colavita–Fine Cooking[1] |
| 2016–2019 | Rally Cycling |
Formative years
editBorn 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
editDuring 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
edit- 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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ "From bike to chalkboard – the Erica Carney story". Rally UHC Cycling. Circuit Sport. October 21, 2019. Retrieved February 3, 2020.
- ^ "Banged-Up Tiger," in "Race Notebook." Allentown, Pennsylvania: The Morning Call, June 4, 2008, p. C3 (subscription required).
- ^ Rittenhouse, Amanda. "Pro, amateur cyclists to wheel into W. Chester." Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3, 2008, p. L14 (subscription required).
- ^ Rittenhouse, "Pro, amateur cyclists to wheel into W. Chester," The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3, 2008.
- ^ Flynn, John Michael (February 11, 2007). "Kersten wins gold in kilo and omnium". Cyclingnews.com. Knapp Communications. Retrieved June 19, 2022.
External links
edit- Erica Allar at UCI
- Erica Allar at Cycling Archives
- Erica Allar at ProCyclingStats
- Erica Allar at Cycling Quotient
- Erica Carney at UCI
