Team members
2009 team
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OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis (UCI identifier: OCM) was run by Momentum Sports Group and based in the United States. The team was sponsored principally by OUCH Sports Medical Center, and Maxxis. Floyd Landis, with his doping suspension ended, joined the team this year. OUCH is the medical office which performed his hip surgery.
The team's first test was the Amgen Tour of California, a race which Landis won back in 2006. This year it saw Landis race against former US Postal teammate Lance Armstrong. Landis finished in 23rd place, the best performance of the team.
On August 16, John Murphy won the U.S. National Criterium in Downers Grove, IL. They were a little shorthanded, with only five OUCH teammembers participating. Less than 500m from the finish, teammate Karl Menzies crashed, skidding out on pavement wet from the rain. The day before, Karl took 2nd place in the Downers Grove Pro-Am. [1]
Karl Menzies won the overall at the Tour of Elk Grove. He gained the lead in stage 2 in which he finished 2nd. [2]
At the Tour of Utah, in August, Brad White picked up the King of the Mountains jersey in stage 1, eventually losing the classification to Alex Howes of Felt-Holowesko Partners. The team ended up in 2nd place for the team competition. [3] White received as well, the Most Aggressive jersey at stage 4 of the Tour of Mississippi, and the Most Courageous at stage 3 of the Tour of California.
Rory Sutherland was voted 2009 Domestic Male Roadie of the Year by magazine VeloNews in the November issue, after coming in third in the NRC individual standings. [4] Rory won first place in the general classification of the Nature Valley Grand-Prix, 3 seconds ahead of Tom Zirbel of Bissell Pro Cycling. For him, this event included 2nd place in the stage 1 time trial, and 3rd in the Stillwater Criterium of stage 6.
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Floyd Landis is an American former professional road racing cyclist. Landis at first appeared to be the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, and the third non-European winner in the event's history, before testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs. The competition was ultimately won by Óscar Pereiro. Landis was an all-around rider, with special skills in climbing, time-trialing, and descending. Landis turned professional in 1999 with the Mercury Cycling Team. He joined the U.S. Postal Service team in 2002, and moved to the Phonak Hearing Systems team in 2005. In January 2010, a French judge issued a national arrest warrant for Landis on computer hacking charges related to the 2006 doping allegations.
Gordon "Gord" Fraser is a former professional road racing cyclist. As a rider he specialised in sprinting. Fraser is a three-time Olympian and four-time Commonwealth Games participant and has over 200 career wins including becoming the 2004 Canadian national road race champion. He also rode in the 1997 Tour de France and won the US National Race Calendar series twice. He retired from professional cycling at the end of the 2006 season after racing four seasons for the Health Net Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis. He went on to be a directeur sportif with Team Type 1 in 2009, and in 2010 joined UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis as a directeur sportif. In 2011 became DS for the US Continental team, Realcyclist.com. Whilst there he guided Francisco Mancebo to the top of the National Race Calendar individual standings in 2011 and again in 2012. However he left the team when it merged with Kenda-5 Hour Energy ahead of the 2013 season. Subsequently he was approached by Team Exergy to work for them in 2013, however this fell through when Exergy withdrew its sponsorship of the team. In 2014 he worked for Team SmartStop at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, and took the directeur sportif role at the Silber Pro Cycling Team for several races on a part-time basis, before signing a two year deal with the squad in September of that year. After it emerged that Silber would disband at the end of the 2018 season, Floyd Landis announced that Fraser would serve as manager of his new UCI Continental team, Floyd's of Leadville. Fraser resides in Tucson, Arizona and has two sons named Angus and Axel. He also participated in the 2012 Ciclada de Thanos race, claiming 4th Prize.
Jackson Stewart is an American former road racing cyclist, who last rode for the BMC Racing Team.
Karl Menzies is a professional road bicycle racer riding for UCI Continental team Cylance Pro Cycling. He finished second in the 2006 USA Cycling National Racing Calendar to Floyd Landis. Menzies turned professional in 2005, he spent one season on the Advantage Benefits/Endeavour team.
The 2007 USA Cycling National Racing Calendar is a series of men's and women's road bicycle racing events held between March 3 and September 16. The USA Cycling NRC consists of numerous one-day races, including criteriums, and multi-day stage races.
Laura Van Gilder is a professional road bicycle racer from Cresco, Pennsylvania, United States.
Iván Domínguez is a Cuban professional road bicycle racer for the Franco MRI Racing Team. In 2009 Dominguez also known as "The Cuban Missile" acquired U.S. citizenship.
Rory Sutherland is an Australian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. In 2007, he won stages 2 and 3 of the Redlands Bicycle Classic, and also finished 2nd in the Australian National Time Trial Championships.
Rock Racing was a cycling team founded in 2007 by Michael Ball. The team is affiliated with Ball's Rock & Republic clothing line. Rock Racing received media attention for hiring outcasts in the sport, including those tainted by performance-enhancing drug scandals. The team's "bad boy image" was furthered by the design of the team kits, and its motto was "Here to stay" which may have served to incite the anti-doping efforts of the time.
Jelly Belly–Maxxis, officially Jelly Belly p/b Maxxis, was an American professional cycling team. The squad was registered in the United States as a UCI Continental Team. Jelly Belly Candy Company, an American confections company, is the title sponsor. Maxxis, a Taiwanese tire company, is the presenting sponsor.
Bissell Pro Cycling Team, or simply Bissell, was an elite men's cycling team registered in the United States as a UCI Continental. The team competed on the USA Cycling National Racing Calendar and the UCI America Tour.
UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team was a professional road bicycle racing team, run by Momentum Sports Group and based in the United States. The team is sponsored principally by UnitedHealth Group. It began at the end of 2009 as a reorganization of the OUCH Pro Cycling Team, with headlining cyclist Floyd Landis leaving the team. The team folded at the end of the 2018 season, with the main sponsor transferring to Rally Cycling.
The 2009 Nature Valley Grand Prix was the 9th edition of the Nature Valley Grand Prix stage race. It took place from June 10 through June 14 as part of the USA Cycling National Racing Calendar. The winner was Australian rider Rory Sutherland of OUCH–Maxxis who won the race on the final criterium. The race included an Individual Time Trial, two road races and three criteriums.
Tejay van Garderen is an American professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education First. During the season, he lives in Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
Brent Bookwalter is an American professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Mitchelton–Scott.
John Murphy is an American professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Professional Continental team Rally UHC Cycling.
Eric Galen Young is an American professional road racing cyclist, currently riding for UCI Continental team Elevate–KHS Pro Cycling. Young won the United States National Criterium Championships in both 2011, while riding with Bissell, and in 2013, while riding with Optum–Kelly Benefit Strategies. Before turning professional, Young attended Indiana University Bloomington and won the Little 500 with the "Cutters" team three years.
Derek Bouchard-Hall is a former US professional cyclist, whose career highlights include winning the US Professional Criterium Championship, winning the gold medal in the team pursuit at the Pan American Games, and competing on the 2000 US Olympic team in Sydney, Australia and for Mercury at Paris–Roubaix in 2001. After retiring from cycling in 2002, Bouchard-Hall pursued a career in business, including positions as a management consultant at McKinsey and as a Director at international cycling retailer, Wiggle.com. Since June 2015, he has served as the CEO and President of USA Cycling.
Charles Bradley "Brad" Huff is an American former cyclist, who competed professionally between 2006 and 2018 for the Slipstream–Chipotle, Jelly Belly–Kenda and Rally Cycling teams.
Kimberley Wells is an Australian racing cyclist who has represented Australia in the United States, Middle East and Europe.
