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Erica Carney (née Allar; born November 5, 1985) is an American former professional
racing cyclist
Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...
, who rode professionally in 2009 and between 2014 and 2019 for the and teams.
Formative years
Born as Erica Allar inFogelsville, Pennsylvania
Fogelsville is an unincorporated area in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. It is a suburb of Allentown, in Upper Macungie Township, and is part of the Lehigh Valley, which has a population of 861,899 and was the 68th-most populous metropolitan area i ...
on November 5, 1985, Erica Carney graduated from Northwestern Lehigh High School in the Northwestern Lehigh School District
Northwestern Lehigh School District is a public school district in northwest Lehigh County, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. It serves Heidelberg, Lowhill, Lynn, and Weisenberg Townships.
As of the 2023–2 ...
. She began her amateur cycling career at the age of fifteen at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome (now the Valley Preferred Cycling Center
The Valley Preferred Cycling Center (VPCC), also known as the Lehigh Valley Velodrome or simply T-Town, is a professional cycling center and a velodrome located in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. It serves as the Lehigh Valley's main track cycling s ...
) and rode professionally for the first time in 2008 as a member of Aaron's Cycling Team.
Career
During 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.Major results
;2007 : 2nd Keirin, Australian National Track Championships ;2008 : 10thLiberty Classic
The Liberty Classic was an annual women's bicycle race held from 1994 to 2012, simultaneously with the Philadelphia International Championship. The 57.6 mile race consisted of four laps of a 14.4 mile circuit through Philadelphia with 5 climbs up t ...
;2009
: 1st Clarendon Cup
;2010
: 2nd Criterium
A criterium, or crit, is a bike race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 400 m to 10,000 m.
Overview
Race length can be determined by a number of laps or total time, ...
, National Road Championships
;2012
: 1st Sunny King Criterium
: 1st TD Bank Mayor's Cup
The TD Bank Mayor's Cup was a cycling criterium held in Boston, Massachusetts between 2009 and 2016. The race was held in Downtown Boston with the course circling Boston City Hall and the general Government Center area. The race's name came fr ...
: 3rd Overall Tour of America's Dairyland
The Tour of America's Dairyland is a stage race, multi-day cycling race held annually in Wisconsin since 2009.
Winners Men
Women
References
External links
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*{{Cycling Archives race, 23307
Cycle races in the United States
Recurring spo ...
;2013
: 1st TD Bank Mayor's Cup
The TD Bank Mayor's Cup was a cycling criterium held in Boston, Massachusetts between 2009 and 2016. The race was held in Downtown Boston with the course circling Boston City Hall and the general Government Center area. The race's name came fr ...
: 2nd Sunny King Criterium
;2014
: 1st Tour of Somerville
The Tour of Somerville is an annual, three-day series of bicycle races held in and around Somerville, New Jersey, during Memorial Day weekend. The featured Memorial Day event, the Kugler-Anderson 50-mile race for professional and elite cyclists is ...
: 2nd Criterium
A criterium, or crit, is a bike race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 400 m to 10,000 m.
Overview
Race length can be determined by a number of laps or total time, ...
, National Road Championships
: 2nd Overall Tour of America's Dairyland
The Tour of America's Dairyland is a stage race, multi-day cycling race held annually in Wisconsin since 2009.
Winners Men
Women
References
External links
*
*{{Cycling Archives race, 23307
Cycle races in the United States
Recurring spo ...
: 2nd Sunny King Criterium
: 4th Winston-Salem Cycling Classic
The Winston-Salem Cycling Classic is a one-day race held annually since 2013 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the United States. In 2019, it was rated as a 1.2 race by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), and was part of the UCI America T ...
;2015
: 1st Overall Tulsa Tough
Saint Francis Tulsa Tough Ride and Race is a three-day cycling festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It features non-competitive riding through scenic areas around the Tulsa Metropolitan Area and professional level races. It is held each year on Friday, S ...
::1st Stages 1 & 3
: 3rd Sunny King Criterium
;2017
: 1st Criterium
A criterium, or crit, is a bike race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 400 m to 10,000 m.
Overview
Race length can be determined by a number of laps or total time, ...
, National Road Championships
: 2nd Sunny King Criterium
;2018
: 2nd Athens Twilight Criterium
The Twilight Series is an annual road cycling race that takes place in the spring in Athens, Georgia, United States, since 1980. During the course of each Twilight weekend, competitive events in a variety of fields are staged, including BMX raci ...
See also
*List of 2016 UCI Women's Teams and riders
Listed below are the UCI Women's Teams that compete in 2016 women's road cycling events organized by the International Cycling Union ( UCI), including the 2016 UCI Women's World Tour.
Teams overview
The country designation of each team is deter ...
References
External links
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carney, Erica 1985 births Living people American female cyclists Sportspeople from Lehigh County, Pennsylvania 21st-century American women