Alison Tetrick | |
Fullname: | Alison Marie Tetrick |
Birth Date: | 4 April 1985 |
Birth Place: | Solvang, California, United States[1] |
Height: | 5feet |
Weight: | 143lb |
Role: | Rider |
Proyears1: | 2009–2010 |
Proyears2: | 2011–2013 |
Proyears3: | 2014 |
Proyears4: | 2015 |
Proteam4: | [2] |
Proyears5: | 2016–2017 |
Alison Marie Tetrick (born April 4, 1985) is an American racing cyclist.[3] She rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
Tetrick comes from a sporting family – her grandfather, Paul Tetrick, won more than a dozen national time trial titles, whilst her father played American football for UCLA and subsequently competed in mountain biking. Alison competed as a tennis player whilst at college, becoming an All-American,[4] before she took up elite competition in triathlon as an amateur after graduating. She switched to cycling after attending a USA Cycling Talent ID camp in 2008. In November 2015 she was announced as part of the inaugural squad for the team for the 2016 season.[5]
In 2017 she won Unbound Gravel in Kansas, a race billed as one of the world's top ranked gravel races. She also finished on the podium of the events in 2018 and 2019, even though she had retired as a pro cyclist and no longer rode with a pro team. In 2020, it was cancelled due to COVID-19, but she entered it again in 2021 and placed just outside the top 10. She entered the race again in 2022, but this time she was not targeting a high finish, rather she concentrated on pacing other riders to the finish.[6]