The teams of the 2024 American professional peloton

We have compiled a guide to the professional teams of the American peloton, as the continent looks to rebuild its professional cycling scene

Updated 22:29, Thursday 25th January 2024. Published 21:00, Tuesday 23rd January 2024

Logan Jones-Wilkins

Junior Writer - North America

The peloton at the now defunct Tour of California

With North American cycling in a sea change, every year fewer teams seem to be built in the mould of European road racing. Yet there are teams which remain and they continue to offer opportunities for American cyclists to forge careers racing in the United States and hold out hope for a revival, whether it is through road, criterium or gravel racing.

To shine some like on those teams, we have compiled a list of several of the top-established squads and professional teams that are keeping that hope alive in the United States into one guide. This is not a definitive list of all the teams that offer racing opportunities for Americans, but they are teams that stand out in different ways.

Read more: The complete 2024 USA gravel race calendar

Project Echelon Racing – UCI Continental

A Project Echelon rider (middle) racing at the Mallorca challenge last year

Year founded: 2016

Team manager: Eric Hill

Team focus: UCI road racing, gravel racing, criteriums

Human Powered Health’s loss seems to be Project Echelon’s gain as the team now seems to hold the title of the top US professional squad. The team has been steadily growing since their beginning as the competitive off-shoot of a non-profit initiative that works with rehabilitating military veterans through cycling.

Now with a line-up reinforced with strong riders from other top US teams like Human Powered Health, L39ion and Aevolo, the team seems set to have their biggest season yet. Compared to the rest of the men’s teams on this list, Project Echelon is distinctive as they have declared their intention to focus on road races and gravel races instead of a full criterium calendar.

Roster:

Tyler Stites (USA)
Scott McGill (USA)
Sam Boardman (USA)
Cade Bickmore (USA)
Hugo Scala (USA)
Colby Lange (USA)
Brendan Rhim (USA)
Caleb Classen (USA)
Laurent Gervais (CAN)
Ethan Craine (NZL)
Zach Gregg (USA)
Ricky Arnopol (USA)
Matt Zimmer (USA)

Team Skyline Cadence Pro Cycling – UCI Continental

Year founded: 2019

Team manager: Michael Tacci

Team focus: UCI road racing and criteriums

Team Skyline Cadence Pro Cycling is the lowest-profile Continental team in the United States. The team has been a UCI-registered team since 2019 but has not had a significant win on the domestic scene. Skyline has sporadically raced internationally since they elevated to the Continental level, but domestically Skyline has not been one of the top teams.

That could change in 2024, as the team signed former U23 National Criterium Champion Liam Flanagan and a Tour of the Gila stage winner Alex Hoehn, two riders who have shown results that Skyline has not reached before.

Roster:

Rene Corella (MEX)
David Dubé (CAN)
Ethan Dunham (USA)
Liam Flanagan (USA)
David Gaona (MEX)
Mihnea-Alexandru Harasim (ROM)
Alex Hoehn (USA)
Cian Keogh (IRL)
Adam Lewis (GRB)
Jack Makohon (USA)
Conn McDunphy (IRL)
Luke Pharis (USA)
Cesar Omar Serna (MEX)
Chaz Thurmon (USA)

Virginia Blue Ridge Twenty24 – UCI Continental

Jennifer Valente brings World-Championship pedigree to the team as she prepares for the Paris Olympics

Year founded: 2010

Team manager: Nicola Cranmer

Team focus: North American UCI road racing

Virginia Blue Ridge Twenty24 is a long-standing domestic race team built around rider development. With the likes of Kristen Armstrong and Chloé Dygert both coming through the program, the results speak for themselves. The professional team is only one part of the larger program which also maintains a junior and U23 program to give promising young women in the United States a clear pathway to the top end of professional cycling.

This season, the team is once again filled with strong riders from around North America, including former US road champion Emma Langley who is returning from an injury-riddled season in 2023. The former EF Education-TIBCO-SVB rider will be back racing predominantly in the United States this season and will be joined by a small but strong group of women, including the four-time world champion on the track, Jennifer Valente.

Roster:

Sofia Arreola (MEX)
Emily Ehrlich (USA)
Ruth Holcomb (USA)
Emma Langley (USA)
Marlies Mejías (CUB)
Laurel Quinones (USA)
Melisa Rollins (USA)
Ella Sabo (USA)
Jennifer Valente (USA)
Jamie Whitmore (USA)

Cynisca Cycling – UCI Women’s Continental

Year founded: 2023

Team manager: Robin Farina

Team focus: UCI road races and gravel racing

Cynisca Cycling is the newcomer to the domestic professional line-up, beginning in 2023 and immediately making an impression with strong racing performances in a diverse racing calendar that included both domestic and international racing. In 2024, that success should continue and is likely to expand into the gravel scene as well.

Last year the team dipped their toe into the gravel discipline with Anna Hicks taking a podium spot for the team at the Big Sugar Classic. While Hicks has left the team for a spot on the Denver Disruptors, Lauren Stephens comes to the team with road racing and gravel experience. Furthermore, the veteran American will be racing the Life Time Grand Prix and is likely to mix in other gravel races as well as a road calendar including races like the Joe Martin Stage Race, the Redlands Bicycle Classic and the Tour of the Gila.

Roster:

Pauline Allin (FRA)
Tess Edwards (USA)
Emilie Fortin (CAN)
Chloé Fourmaigué (FRA)
Ashley Frye (USA)
Gabrielle Lehnert (USA)
Fiona Managan (IRL)
Allison Mrugal (USA)
Cara O'Neill (USA)
Chloe Patrick (USA)
Greta Richioud (FRA)
Mara Roland (CAN)
Katherine Sarkisov (USA)
Nicole Steinmetz (USA)
Lauren Stephens (USA)
Claire Windsor (USA)

DNA Pro Cycling – UCI Women’s Continental

Year founded: 2015

Team manager: Catherine Fagan-Kim

Team focus: UCI road racing and criteriums

DNA Pro Cycling is a women’s UCI Continental team that races throughout North America, South America and internationally in road races and criteriums. DNA Pro Cycling is one of the longest-standing pro teams in the United States, having started as an elite team from the Dallas area and has blossomed into one of the top women’s teams in the North American cycling scene.

Along with strong US and Canadian riders like sprinter Olivia Cummins and all-rounder Sarah van Dam, the team has the current Colombian road race champion Diana Peñuela in their line-up. The mix of youth and experience should see the team continue to be one of the big forces in American racing this year.

Roster:

Anet Barrera (MEX)
Holly Breck (USA)
Olivia Cummins (USA)
Maeghan Easler (USA)
Heather Fischer (USA)
Nadia Gontova (CAN)
Rachel Langdon (GBR)
Kimberly Lucie (USA)
Makayla Macpherson (USA)
Harriet Owen (GBR)
Diana Peñuela (COL)
Sara Poidevin (CAN)
Shayna Powless (USA)
Kaitlyn Rauwerda (CAN)
Sarah Van Dam (CAN)

L39ion of Los Angeles – Domestic Elite

Justin Williams before their 'Into the Lion's Den' criterium in 2021

Year founded: 2019

Team manager: Justin Williams

Team focus: US criteriums and UCI road races

L39ion of Los Angeles is the brainchild of Justin and Cory Williams. The team began in 2019 as an effort to create a team that supported diversity and inclusivity in American cycling, while also elevating the discipline of criterium racing. Since then L39ion of Los Angeles has become one of the most stable and well-funded teams in the domestic US peloton.

In 2024 the team will continue to predominantly race criteriums and UCI road races in the United States. Additionally, after two seasons of maintaining multiple affiliated teams across the United States, the Williams Racing brand have spread their racing talent more evenly across the two primary squads – L39ion of Los Angeles and the Miami Blazers – with Cory Williams set to lead the Miami Blazers in the top US criteriums this spring and summer.

Men’s roster:

Robin Carpenter (USA)
Alec Cowan (CAN)
Danny Estavez (USA)
Richard Holec (CZE)
Tyler Magner (USA)
Kyle Murphy (USA)
Justin Williams (BLZ)

Women’s roster:

Llori Sharpe (JAM)
Alexis Ryan (USA)
Kendall Ryan (USA)
Lizbeth Yareli Salazar (MEX)

Miami Blazers – Domestic Elite

Year founded: 2020

Team manager: Daniel Ramirez

Team focus: US criteriums and UCI road races

The Miami Blazers, not to be confused with the Miami Nights, is a Williams Racing-affiliated team that began in 2022 and has undergone some significant changes in 2024. Cory Williams, the co-founder of L39ion of Los Angeles and Williams Racing, has joined to head the team in criteriums, while Samantha Schneider and Skylar Schneider have joined the women’s team from L39ion, as well. Like L39ion, their focus will be on criterium and road races in the United States.

Men’s roster:

Cory Lockwood (USA)
Cory Williams (BLZ)
Eder Frayre (MEX)
Gavin Hoover (USA)
Brandon Feehery (USA)
Dante Young (USA)
Oscar Quiroz (BLZ)
Spencer Moavenzadeh (USA)
Tanner Ward (USA)

Women’s roster:

Julyn Aguilar (MEX)
Alexi Ramirez (TTO)
Samantha Schneider (USA)
Skylar Schneider (USA)

Denver Disruptors – National Cycling League

The Denver Disruptors are adding Stephen Bassett who has come close to a number of big wins in his career thus far

Year founded: 2023

Team manager: TBA

Team focus: Criteriums and UCI road racing in the United States

The Denver Disruptors are one of the three teams owned and operated by the National Cycling League (NCL). Like the other two, the Miami Nights and a new Atlanta team, the Denver Disruptors is built for the criterium-style NCL races, but will also participate in road races around the United States as a Domestic Elite team.

While a team only in its second year, the Denver Disruptors had a fantastic season of racing in 2023, highlighted by the success of Riley Sheehan. Sheehan, who is now a part of the Israel-Premier Tech team, was able to defeat Miguel Ángel López at the Joe Martin Stage Race in the spring and continued to build on that success throughout the summer, racing stage races and criteriums before his breakthrough stint as a stagiaire for Israel-Premier Tech where he won Paris-Tours.

For 2024 the team returns with a strong core of riders, including the fast-finishing Noah Granigan, and has added the likes of Cooper Johnson from Hagens Berman Axeon and Stephen Bassett from Human Powered Health. For the women, Anna Hicks is coming off a breakthrough result at the Big Sugar Classic and will look to combine her road objective with more gravel as a part of the Life Time Grand Prix.

The full roster is yet to be confirmed.

Miami Nights – National Cycling League

Year founded: 2023

Team manager: TBA

Team focus: Criteriums and UCI road racing in the United States

The Miami Nights came out on top of the NCL last year and were able to compete on the criterium scene beyond the NCL races as well, with their women’s criterium team producing wins across the calendar with Paola Muñoz and Andrea Cyr. The men’s team came up a bit short, and the team certainly did not have a standout rider like Riley Sheehan, but still performed above the mark of most of the non-UCI teams in the domestic peloton.

In 2024, the team has announced the signings of a couple of riders thus far. The most notable of which is Tyler Williams who is coming on board from L39ion of Los Angeles. Williams was one of the top riders for L39ion since its inception and will be a strong all-around rider for the Miami Nights line-up for both criteriums and stage racing. For the women, Muñoz and Cyr both return to build on their success as one of the top sprinters on the US racing scene.

The full roster is yet to be confirmed.

REIGN Storm Racing – Domestic Elite

Year founded: 2023

Team manager: Thomas Craven

Team focus: US criteriums

Formerly known as the American Cycling Group, Reign Storm Racing is home to last year’s most consistent criterium racer, Danny Summerhill, and has been making inroads into the dominance that L39ion has held over the discipline since they came into the scene. Joining Summerhill are many riders from the team last year, with further reinforcements from a merger with Texas Roadhouse, another top US team. For 2024, the focus is once again exclusively on criteriums.

Roster:

Danny Summerhill (USA)
Michael Hernandez (USA)
Bryan Gomez (COL)
Alfredo Rodriguez (MEX)
Jordan Parra (COL)
Fergus Arthur (USA)
Zach Berend (USA)
Jaime Castandeda (COL)
Kyle Perry (USA)
Tim Smith (USA)
Eli House (USA)
Aaron Beebe (USA)

Aevolo – U23 development team

Until Bora-Hansgrohe, Aevolo has been the team in green and gold in the peloton since 2017

Year founded: 2017

Team manager: Mike Creed

Team focus: American and international road racing

With Hagens Berman-Jayco moving further away from its American roots and giving fewer opportunities to young American riders, Aevolo is now firmly the primary U23 team for American riders. While it now operates at the Domestic Elite level rather than at the UCI Continental level, the team still maintains an eclectic mix of international and domestic road racing opportunities. It is a unique program that opts for opportunities built around European racing instead of the shift in the racing here in America that is moving more towards criteriums and gravel.

This fall we interviewed the director of the team, Micheal Creed, to learn more about how Aevolo has weathered the changing tides of North American cycling and the changes to the structure of U23 cycling development. Be sure to check out that conversation through the link below: