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Canadian Alizée Brien to ride in Team TIBCO-SVB’s colours once again when the 2016 season kicks off

Team TIBCO-SVB is the latest pro squad to announce its 2016 roster, with some of those who built its powerful 2015 season returning to the California-based team.

November 13, 2015
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Team TIBCO-SVB is the latest pro squad to announce its 2016 roster, with some of those who built its powerful 2015 season — 81 podium appearances and 29 victories in all — rolling out in the California-based team’s colours once again.

In addition, some fresh new faces have been introduced to the TIBCO ranks.

As the team heads into an Olympic year, the year behind is certainly enough to inspire a bit of confidence in its riders. Across four continents, six countries were the various sites of the squad’s commanding, near-dominating season. Building on that success, the team has ambitious plans going forward, officials say, for taking it further still.

“We are delighted with the strength of our partnerships with TIBCO Software and Silicon Valley Bank as we head into an Olympic year,” said the team’s founder, Linda Jackson, “These partnerships have enabled us to build an exciting roster with an intensive, international racing calendar to help out athletes achieve their Olympic goals.”

One of those athletes is Canada’s Alizée Brien — the reigning under-23 Canadian national time trial champion — who returns along with six other veterans of the team.

With TIBCO, Brien has particularly excelled the last couple of years in her widely-reputed specialties as a rider. Back in September, she just barely missed the top 10 with an 11th place finish at the world championship time trial in Richmond, and powered to fifth at June’s national championship time trial in Quebec. Her ride at nationals followed an identical finish in 2014, also riding for TIBCO, at that year’s national championship, too.

Along with the 22-year-old Canadian, a glance at the team’s other names reveals a powerful, diverse range of skills, everything from European stage-refined climbers to aggressive sprinters. Returning with Brien to the team’s 2016 roster are 2015 veterans Emily Collins, Jo Kiesanowski, Kathrine Jammes, reigning U.S. criterium national titlist Kendall Ryan, Lauren Stephens, and Patricia Schwager, a former national time trial champion in Switzerland.

Joining those seven core cyclists, newcomers Cheryl Clark, Lauren Komanski and Brianna Walle also kick off the 2016 season with TIBCO. Lauren Hall, meanwhile — who rode for TIBCO in 2012 before joining Optum — returns to the team in 2016, with another homecoming marking the return of Lindsay Myers, who withdrew from professional competition in 2012 to focus on her PhD.

“I balanced undergraduate and graduate school with racing until my second year of physical therapy school,” Myers said, recalling the last couple of years. “At that point sacrificing school was not an option. I am ready to return to my racing career with the goal of once again being a part of a strong and accomplished group of ladies and seeing what we can accomplish together.”

The team will release its complete 2016 race calendar in December.