Keough goes pro with Kelly Benefit Strategies/Medifast

The Kelly Benefit Strategies/Medifast team will add another rising talent to its ranks in time for the Tour of Pennsylvania, it announced Saturday. Jake Keough, a Massachusetts native who took podium spots in the Skyscraper Harlem and Uptown Greenwood races this season will don the green and gold of the KBS/M team for the remainder of the season, leaving behind the orange of his amateur Sakonnet U25 squad.

Keough, 20, is the oldest of four siblings who excel at bike racing, including his brother Luke, who is the reigning junior cyclo-cross champion. Starting out racing BMX bikes at the age of seven, Keogh brings those BMX handling skill and years of amateur racing to the team, specializing in technical, tight criteriums and fast finish road races.