Personal information | |
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Born | United States | March 3, 1985
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Time Trials, Climbing, Stage races, Classics |
Amateur teams | |
2006 | Yawadoo-Colba-ABM |
2006 | TIAA–CREF |
Professional teams | |
2007–2010 | Slipstream–Chipotle |
2011–2012 | Team NetApp |
Major wins | |
2007 Vuelta a Chichuahua, 1st team overall, 1st stage 6, 2nd stage 2 2007 Tour of Missouri, 1st best young rider, 1st team overall |
Steven Cozza (born March 3, 1985) is a professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for Team NetApp.
Cozza helped his father co-found the Boy Scouts equality advocacy group Scouting for All when he was 12 years old, and was the focus of Scout's Honor , a film that documented his time as a boy scout and his fight against the Boy Scouts of America's discriminatory policy against gays being allowed in the organization. [1] [2]
Cozza broke his left collar bone in his first race of 2010 on stage 2 of the Tour of Qatar, requiring surgery as it was the third time he had broken it. Cozza announced that he would be taking a break from professional cycling in February 2012, in order to fully recover from colitis. [3] [4] [5] As of July 2012 [update] he is a Realtor for Frank Howard Allen in Petaluma, California. [6]
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