Jeremy Powers
Powers at the 2013 Tour of Alberta
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Jeremy Powers |
| Born |
June 29, 1983 Niantic, Connecticut |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team |
Jelly Belly–Maxxis (Road) Rapha-FOCUS (Cyclocross) |
| Discipline | cyclo-cross and road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2000–2002 | Team Devo (Mountain/Cyclocross) |
| 2003 | NCC/Bikereg.Com (Road/Cyclocross) |
| 2004–2006 | Jelly Belly–Aramark (Road/Cyclocross) |
| 2007–2010 | Cannondale/Cyclocrossworld.com (Cyclocross) |
| 2007–2013 | Jelly Belly Cycling Team (Road) |
| 2011–2014 | Rapha-FOCUS (Cyclocross) |
| 2014–Present | Aspire Racing (Cyclocross) |
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Jeremy Powers (born June 29, 1983 in Niantic, Connecticut) is an American professional racing cyclist who has won over 90 UCI victories, four USA Cyclocross national championships, the 2015 Pan American Championship and the most cylcocross races win by an American.
Jeremy’s love of cycling was apparent from an early age. Jeremy loved to tear around the house on his BMX bike, and it wasn’t long before he started turning heads at local mountain bike races. He soon found his way to the Team Devo junior mountain bike program, and with their support he won his first major race in 2000, the Junior Mountain Bike World Cup in Napa Valley.
Powers was introduced to cyclocross early in his cycling career as a way to stay fit at the end of the mountain bike season. It was the only time of the year when roadies and mountain bikers would converge in one place, and test each other’s skills and fitness. In his native New England, cyclocross has been a regular part of each season for decades, and Jeremy excelled at the short, fast, technical races. Powers discovered that the frenetic pace and camaraderie of cyclocross suited his high energy and outgoing personality.
Jeremy earned a reputation as a strong rider, and success in New England earned him an invite to the Cyclocross Junior World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic in 2001. Jeremy finished 17th in Tabor, and his first international cyclocross race gave him a taste for world-class competition. Encouraged by several friends and his coach Adam Myerson, Jeremy moved to Massachusetts, and changed his focus to road racing. “The crew in Western Massachusetts were key to my development,” Jeremy recalls. “Cyclocross was just starting to grow in the US, and I decided that road racing was the best path for growing my career as a professional cyclist.”
While attending classes at Westfield State University, Jeremy tackled road racing with the positive energy and focus he’s become known for. Jeremy moved from a Category 5 to a Category 1 racer in a few short months, and closed out his road-racing season by signing a contract with Jelly Belly Pro Cycling. He was only 20 years old.
Jeremy would go on to race with Jelly Belly at the biggest races in the U.S including the Tour of California and Tour of Missouri. Despite his growing success on the road, every fall he would return to his true passion, cyclocross.
In 2007 Stu Thorne signed Jeremy to his Cyclocrossworld.com team, one of the first professional cyclocross teams in the U.S. The support enabled Jeremy to tackle the U.S. Grand Prix of Cyclocross with renewed fervor, and he won his first major event in Louisville, KY that fall. Jeremy went on to win the USGP overall title in 2010, and it wasn’t long before he started to finish in the top 10 at World Cup events in Europe. Jeremy’s rise to the top of the sport was completed in January 2012 with his first U.S. National Cyclocross Championship in Madison, Wisconsin. After dominating the U.S. circuit in 2012-13, and again in 2013-14, Jeremy won his second national championship in Boulder, Colorado in January 2014.
Following the 2014 season, Powers launched his own team, Aspire Racing focused solely on cyclocross The 2014/15 campaign marked one of Jeremy's most successful season's to date. This coming season he will focus exclusively on cyclocross and will race a full European schedule, focusing on UCI World Cup events, and will attend select events on the ProCX calendar in the U.S.
In 2016, Jeremy was joined by Ellen Noble, agraduate of Jeremy’s development program The JAM Fund. Ellen is a World Champion silver medalist, 3x National Champion and Pan American Champion. The addition of Noble has brought even more value, ethics, and determination to the sport of cyclocross and further solidified the success of the proven Aspire Racing team formula.
Since rising to the top of the sport Jeremy has been involved in many different media, developmental and education projects aimed at growing the popularity of cyclocross in the United States through the JAM Fund, his non profit organization, Behind THE Barriers video production company, cyclocross camps, instructional DVDS and he has also collaborated on several cyclocross books including “Skills Drills and Bellyaches” and “Mud Snow and Cyclocross.”.
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