Ina Teutenberg: Nurturing the next crop of US elite women

Chloe Dygert (USA) double world champion in the junior women's time trial and road race

Chloe Dygert (USA) double world champion in the junior women's time trial and road race (Image credit: Immediate Media)

Beginning in 2015, USA Cycling has given me the opportunity to work with a couple of different development teams in Europe; junior women and junior men. Last spring, I started out by working with the junior women’s groups, and it was a helluva steep learning curve, for both myself and the team. Yeah, I was a bike racer for a long time, and I know a lot about racing, but I learned that there is a lot more to being a director, and being in charge, that I didn't know.