Our elite team had their work cut out for them in 2025, following a season that included teammates who won gold at the 2025 Pan-American Games Track Cycling Competition, the UCI World Master's Track Championships, a USA Cycling Track National Championship, and four athletes moving on to the pro ranks. Next racer, up! Greetings to Andy Wolfe (Philadelphia), who took up bike racing a little later in life. The 33-year-old, Lebanon County native, and Cumberland Valley Collective veteran, joined our team and scored our biggest victory, winning the 2025 Pennsylvania Cycling Association State Championship at the inaugural State College Criterium. Our men's elite team started their season with a team camp in SoCal, spent a big portion of July racing Belgian Kermesses in the motherland of cycling, and got the opportunity to race against top international and national talent right here on the hometown streets at the 21st Annual Bucks County Classic. Andy had the benefit of having a road captain like Colin Fitzgerald (Philadelphia), willing to jump in and race big national races like the 2025 USA Cycling Pro Criterium National Championships, the Chicago Grit Series, the Gateway Cup (St. Louis, MO), and the Armed Forces Cycling Classic (Washington, D.C.). It sure didn't hurt that former pro cyclist Chris Meacham (Perkasie) returned to the road after two years of representing us on the mountain bike, gravel bike, and (checks notes) ... it turns out that Chris won the unofficial, vintage, Pennyfarthing national championship in 2023 and 2025. Along the way, Chris completed his third, 104-mile, extreme altitude, Leadville 100 Trail Mountain Bike Race, a litany of the nation's premier gravel races, and even returned to the velodrome to join track-specialist Andy Dudle (Emmaus) to race the 2025 Madison Cup at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center in Trexlertown, PA. 

Although she's represented us for 3 years, Julianna Rutecki (West Chester) is a young athlete filling big shoes left by teammates who've moved on to the Olympic, international, and national professional ranks. Julianna was born, raised, and educated in West Chester, but she also has Bucks County roots. Tom (Dad) is a long-time, decorated, public safety veteran who has even raced (in uniform) at our annual, infamous, Goldsprints event. Proficient at two disciplines, she raced at the 2025 USA Cycling Elite Track (Colorado Springs) and Pro Criterium National Championships (Charleston, WVA). Julianna challenged herself in national-level races like Speed Week (Athens, GA) and the Redlands Bicycle Classic (Redlands, CA). Bicycle racing in New York City has a unique cycling culture that goes back to the beginning and is heavily represented by its Caribbean, Central, and South American communities. What an addition to her palmarès to earn a 3rd place finish at the Harlem Skyscraper Classic this summer. Julianna also won her first Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) gold medal when international track cycling was centered at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center, early this summer. She finished her track season in the Lehigh Valley with a silver medal at the 2025 Madison Cup with guest teammate, and 5x National Champion, Colleen Gulick (Spring City, PA). We got to know Danielle VanNiekerk (Johannesburg, South Africa) last season while she spent the Southern Hemisphere's winter racing on the velodrome at T-Town, and she was a good fit on our team in our community. Danii had an auspicious start, winning five silver medals in the 2025 South African Elite Track National Championships (Cape Town, South Africa). Danii was busy on Friday nights at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center all summer, and also raced several local criteriums, including the Historic Riverton Criterium (Riverton, NJ), Easton Twilight Criterium, Tour of Somerville (NJ), and State College Criterium. Mia Deye (Geigerstown) is already a pro track cyclist with the UCI: Star Track (NY) program, but is a relative newcomer on the road. A rising junior at Colorado Mesa University, Mia won the women's amateur race at the 2025 Easton Twilight Criterium. She was on her way to a win at the 2025 Tour of Somerville Amateur Women's Race when she suffered a concussion that derailed much of her 2025 season. Fortunately, she's back in one piece, winning local bike races in Colorado, and we look forward to seeing her again in 2026. 

A rising group of young athletes has given us tremendous hope for the future of our team, led by CB East junior Noah Shumskas (Pipersville).  Noah started the season winning an elite criterium at the 2025 Lucarelli & Castaldi Boundbrook Park Spring Series (Newark, NJ), raced both the USA Cycling Amateur Criterium National Championships (Charleston, WV) and the USA Cycling Junior Track National Championships (Redmond, Washington), and finished 5th at the Bucks County Classic Men's Amateur Race. He was joined on the road by an exciting group of emerging racers like Adam Leh (Pottstown), Evan Guydish (Easton), and Connor Devine (Philadelphia). On the mountain bike side, 13-year-old Chris Schwarz (Doylestown) made quite a splash, finishing huge marathon races like the Wilderness 101 and the 6-day, 240-mile Breck Epic Stage Race, where he raced on a duo team with his father, Steve. Chris competes on the local Bucks County Composite MTB team as part of the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA), which represents our local school districts. He excelled in the Mid-Atlantic Super Series of Mountain Biking, along with his sister Cameron Schwarz, and teammates Taryn Ott, Derek Ott, and Finn Swartley, all of whom won championships or podiums in their respective age groups. 

Gosh darn it, we're a multi-sport team too. Sean Guydish (Easton) from our men's elite team likes to dip his toes into the triathlon world, and this year he finished at the 2025 Ironman State College Triathlon and 6th overall at the 21st Annual Steelman Triathlon in the Olympic Distance while recording the best time on the bike. Just up the road from Sean was teammate Elijah X. Barker (Doylestown), who finished 3rd overall in the same race, won the 2025 Jerseyman Triathlon, and finished 4th in his age group at the 2025 Ironman 70.3 Musselman. Elijah began his freshman year at Liberty University and is looking forward to competing at the 2026 World Triathlon Championships in Nice, France. Meg Lysak-Hagy (Doylestown) had her strongest 2025 result at Steelman, finishing 6th overall in the Olympic distance while winning the women's 20-24 age group. Evan Guydish (Easton) and Carson Wiley (Doylestown) finished 3rd and 6th, respectively, in the Sprint distance at Steelman. Read more here. 

We are blessed with a large group of club teammates who went out and represented our team in huge cycling endeavors. Team sponsor Geoffrey Prudhomme, CMT (Buckingham), earned his belt buckle as an official finisher at his first 104-mile, extreme altitude, Leadville 100 MTB Trail Race (Leadville, CO) alongside elite teammate Chris Meacham (Perkasie). Just down the hill, father and son duo Steve & Chris Schwarz finished 6th at the six-day, 240-mile Breck Epic Mountain Bike Stage Race (Breckenridge, CO). Gravel specialist Zack Repp (Phillipsburg, NJ) finished 2nd in the Pennsylvania Gravel Series. Team sponsor Rob Beighley (Solebury Club, Buckingham) joined fellow Doylestown teammates Pete Smith and Mike Bowe for a 300-mile, one-day charity ride to benefit the Ronald McDonald House - Amsterdam as part of Jeff Bekos' One Dad's Mission. Chapeau to our board president, Heiner Markhoff (Doylestown), and board member/sponsor Thomas Hofmann (Doylestown), who joined friends to complete a north-south, mixed terrain, 600-mile transit of Germany in July. These were just a few of the amazing cycling accomplishments of our club teammates in 2025.