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Team Specialized–lululemon

Velocio–SRAM Pro Cycling
Velocio-SRAM team logo.jpg
UCI code SLU
Registered United States (2003–2011 & 2013–2014)
Germany (2012 & 2015)
Founded 2003 (2003)
Disbanded 2015 (Canyon-SRAM set up for 2016 by Ronny Lauke)
Discipline Road
Status UCI Women's Team
Bicycles 2003–2008 Giant
2009–2011 Scott
2012–2014 Specialized
2015 Cervélo
General manager Kristy Scrymgeour
Team manager(s) Ronny Lauke
Jens Zemke
2003
2004–2007
2007–2008
2008
2009
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013–2014
2015
Team T-Mobile
Team T-Mobile Women
Team High Road Women
Team Columbia Women
Team Columbia–High Road Women
Team Columbia–HTC Women
Team HTC–Columbia Women
HTC–Highroad Women
Team Specialized–lululemon
Specialized–lululemon
Velocio–SRAM Pro Cycling

Velocio–SRAM Pro Cycling, formerly known as Specialized–lululemon, was a professional cycling team based in the United States that competes in elite road bicycle racing and track cycling events. The final-season title sponsors were SRAM Corporation and Cervelo bicycles. Velocio Sports was the holding company for the team and the place-holder during a larger search for a title sponsor.

Before 2012, the team was owned by Bob Stapleton's High Road Sports and was known in 2011 as HTC–Highroad Women. Following HTC's withdrawal of sponsorship and the failure to find a replacement sponsor, a new company, Velocio Sports, directed by High Road's former Marketing and Communications officer Kristy Scrymgeour, was set up to own the team, but most of the riders and other staff remained the same. High Road also operated an elite men's professional team known most recently as HTC–Highroad, which disbanded.

Prior to 2008, the team was named T-Mobile Women. Columbia Sportswear were a title sponsor from July 2008 until the end of 2010.

In August 2015, Scrymgeour announced that the team would be disbanded at the end of the 2015 season.

The main new riders for the team were the European Time Trial Champion Ellen van Dijk and the Canadian national champion Alex Wrubleski. Alexis Rhodes and Madeleine Sandig left the team and Anke Wichmann and Oenone Wood both retired.

The main new riders for the team were the Americans Amber Neben and Amanda Miller and the German time trial champion Charlotte Becker. Sadly, in January, Carla Swart died whilst training after being hit by a truck. After winning a stage, Ellen van Dijk won the Ladies Tour of Qatar which was the 400th victory for the team (men's and women's) since 2008. Ina Teutenberg won the fifth round in the Women's World Cup and the team won the seventh round, the Open de Suède Vårgårda team time trial. The team finished second overall in the World Cup. Judith Arndt finished fourth in the individual standings and Teutenberg fifth. At the end of the season Arndt took the third place in the UCI World Ranking, Teutenberg fourth and the team ended in second place in the team classification.


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