Crafting blankets and bike victories - US multi-discipline junior champion Matthew Crabbe displays many talents

Ryan Crabbe at Belgium cyclocross November 2024
Ryan Crabbe at Belgium cyclocross November 2024 (Image credit: Eurocross Academy / @thepenultimatestage)

Each spring in Georgia there are traditional reminders of the new season, including the plethora of criterium events that blossom in the southern US states in unison with azaleas, daffodils and other flora to signal a time for pollen, and racing, season. It is at USA CRITS and Speed Week events where the Crabbe family can be found, an easy car drive from their Buford, Georgia home.

Matthew Crabbe is the oldest of three boys for Jennifer and Ryan Crabbe, who introduced their trio to a variety of team sports, including basketball. swimming and soccer. He earned his seventh stars-and-stripes jersey this summer, this one as the junior men's 15-16 criterium champion, a year after he won a gold medal in the Ominium Scratch race at track nationals. 

Jackie Tyson
North American Production editor

Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).