November 30, 2004 – USA Cycling announced today its squad for the second round of the 2004/05 UCI Track World Cup in Los Angeles December 10-12. Led by six Olympians, the U.S. team fields a talented squad that will compete against the world’s best track cycling nations.

Slated for the ADT Event Center velodrome in nearby Carson, Calif., the event is one in a series of four Olympic-level competitions across the globe. With editions in Moscow, Manchester, Great Britain and Sydney, the ADT Event Center plays host to its first elite-level international competition since its opening in June of 2004. The second round of the world cup also provides competitors a preview of the facility that will also host the 2005 UCI Elite Track World Championships in March.

Among the world’s best will be an American roster of eleven athletes with a combined experience of nine Olympic Games. Four women and seven men will represent the United States in a variety of sprint and endurance oriented events.

2004 Olympic medalist Erin Mirabella (Racine, Wis.) leads a women’s endurance trio that also includes Rebecca Quinn (Quakertown, Pa.) and Anna Webb (San Diego, Calif.).

A two-time Olympian, Mirabella captured the bronze medal in the points race in Athens and also has a couple of world cup wins to her credit. Competing in both the points race and the individual pursuit, the veteran Mirabella looks to continue her success at the highest level of international competition on home soil.

Quinn, the current USCF Elite National Champion in the scratch race, also has a world cup podium performance under her belt, an effort she will look to duplicate in both the scratch race and the points race in Los Angeles.

Leading the way as the only representative in the women’s sprint events is Jennie Reed (Kirkland, Wash.) Reed, also an Olympian in 2004, claimed a bronze medal at the world championships and finished the 2004 world cup series on top of the keirin standings. Reed will ride both the match sprint and the keirin in Los Angeles.

Colby Pearce (Boulder, Colo.), also a member of the 2004 U.S. Olympic Team, is one of three representatives of the men’s endurance squad and will compete in both the points race and the madison. Pearce brought home two victories in world cup competition last season and finished the year ranked in the top-three of both events in the overall world cup standings.

Teaming up with Pearce in the madison will be 2000 Olympic gold medalist Marty Nothstein (Orefield, Pa.). Nothstein. The three-time Olympian who also earned silver in Atlanta is shifting his focus away from the sprint events that brought him Olympic glory and towards the madison, an event which caters to athletes with both sprint and endurance oriented talents.

Rounding out the men’s endurance squad is current scratch race elite national champion Josh Kerkhof (Fort Worth, Texas).

The men’s sprint squad features a mix of established veterans and talented newcomers. 2004 Olympic team members Christian Stahl (Bethany, Conn.) and Giddeon Massie (Colorado Springs, Colo.) make the cut along with Ryan Nelman (Houston, Texas) and Aaron Kacala (Racine, Wis.).

Massie and Stahl, who comprised two-thirds of the team sprint squad in Athens, will join forces with Nelman this time around. Nelman spent last season in the junior ranks and narrowly missed out on a couple of medals at the junior world championships in July placing fourth in both the team sprint and the keirin.

Stahl and Massie will also compete individually in the match sprint with Stahl also scheduled to contest the keirin.

Kacala will ride the kilometer time trial, an event in which he claimed a junior national title at the ADT Event Center in June.

With valuable world cup points on the line, the upper echelon of elite riders from established and respected track cycling programs from across the globe will converge for world-class competition. Leading the list of countries scheduled to compete is Australia, a nation that captured eight medals, five of them gold, in Athens. Other perennial powerhouses such as Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Japan, Russia and New Zealand will add to the Olympic-like atmosphere and further raise the level of competition and add depth to the field.