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 Kent Menzel,
age 46, now has several road racing seasons under
his belt after having been a devoted triathelete.
In local cycling events you may have noticed him in his DePauw jersey
because he also serves as faculty advisor and coach of the DePauw
collegiate team. During the day Kent poses as a
Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at Depauw University and is busy
coaching his three athletic daughters.
Mike Halsey, age 50 has
participated in masters races for the past four
years, and proven himself a valuable teammate. Mike is employed by Roark
Welding and Engineering in Brownsburg and plays a key role in the
production of Roark's titanium bicycle frames, the same frames that the
Indiana Masters Racing Team rides.
Terry Martin, age 55, resides
in South Bend, where he
teaches religious studies and philosophy at Saint Mary's College. Terry
received his B.A. and M.A. in religious studies from Indiana University, a PhL. in philosophy from Catholic University, and a PhD. in
theology from the University of Chicago. Terry spends
his spare time riding his bike (now a nice, new, shiny Roark). He has been
racing for five years, excelling in and enjoying the individual time trial
where he has garnered several district championships in his age group.
 George
Geier, age 55,
is often in some distant land with his bicycle. He resides in Marion, Indiana, where he is a urologist. George brings to the team many years
experience of racing on the track. George has numerous national titles on
the track and has won several medals at the UCI World Masters
Championships.
 Gregg Rokosh raced for 3
years on the Canadian provincial cycling team before getting too tied up in
classes and research. He generally competed in the
prairie provinces,
Alberta,
Saskatchewan, and
Manitoba. Generally he managed a top 10 finish, garnered a few
podium finishes and made it to nationals one year, his last year. He then
took an 18 year hiatus, which included some mountain bike racing, and
before finally seeing the light again in
Louisville and returning to road racing and training.
 Dave Mercer , age 60, brings
45 years of experience of national caliber racing to our team. Many of us
consider bike racing to be our passion, but we pale in comparison to Dave's
enthusiasm for this sport. Dave's health has kept him on the sidelines the
past couple of years, but he's looking forward to increased participation
in 2005 and beyond, when it is very likely he'll add to his 5 national championships.
You can take that to the bank.
Charlie Scott
is from Carmel, Indiana and has been
happily married for 25 years. He has two wonderful children. Their son is a
third generation college receiver playing for Saint Joseph College. Charlie
has worked for The Estridge Companies (homebuilders) for 18 years and is now
an Executive Vice President.
Football was his original
sporting passion. He played wide receiver at Carmel High School (with Mark
Herrmann as the quarterback) and at the University of Evansville from
1976-1980. U of E retired his number in 1998 (well, actually they dropped
the football program and retired all the numbers).
As a runner, he has competed
in several mini and full marathons (including Boston and Leadville). He
started bicycle racing four years ago to improve his duathlon performance
but came to enjoy the pure bike training and racing more than the duathlons.
The bicycle racing improved his overall duathlon enough for him to qualify
for Team USA in the 2003 Duathlon World Championships in Switzerland. He
plans to return to the Duathlon World Championships in 2007 as a “seasoned”
50 year old.
Jamie Gray
is a mechanical designer for Material Handling Systems, a Louisville, KY
based Conveyor Manufacturing Company. It primarily designs systems for UPS,
Fed-Ex and DHL. He is a 10 year veteran of bike racing, putting in a solid
5 last five years.
He is an Army veteran of 5 years, combat
trained Ranger/82nd Airborne Division Grenada Veteran, although
by the time he got there, he says it was more like a Caribbean vacation.
Very unselfishly, Jamie describes himself
as a top ten kinda guy, hoping for a legitimate sprinter to work for. Jamie
is our kinda guy.
Jeffrey
Chambers and his wife Gayla
have 2 wonderful teenage daughters. Jeff has been a Category 2 and Masters
racer, for the past 10 years. A 4 time District Road race and Criterium
medalist, including a Silver at the 2005 USCF Kentucky/Indiana District
road race 40+ category, along with a couple of Kentucky State Championships
on the Mountain Bike. Jeff is excited to be part of such a strong team in
2006. He looks forward to using his skills towards a great season for IMRT.
 Aaron Werner,
36, has only two years bicycle racing experience, but has lots of experience
in track & field where he excelled in college as a decathlete. More
recently, however, he has participated in national freedive-spearfishing
competitions, consistently placing among the nation’s best. Aaron’s
previous occupations include lobstering in Maine, teaching high school math
and science, coaching college track & field, working as an EMT, and laboring
as a professional SCUBA diver. His present occupation is working on a Ph.D
at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and pastoring Pleasant Ridge
Baptist Church in Leavenworth, IN. Aaron is married to Kathy, a former
college basketball player. They have two toddlers—with another on the way.
 Todd Lee, age
52, is originally from Richmond, Indiana and he now resides in Columbus,
Ohio where he’s employed with Sterling Commerce in Dublin, as a Software
Engineer. He has three adult children and one granddaughter. Todd has over
15 years of racing experience in Masters and category 1/2/3 races, with
several top ten finishes.
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 Skip Higgins, age 61, was introduced to bicycle
racing at
Indiana
University, participating in his fraternity's Little 500 team. Skip
has over 25 years of experience in the industrial real estate brokerage
business. Married, with two grown children, Skip enjoys cycling along with
several other hobbies.
 Adam
Beck, age 45, is a tall rider of
6'4". Married with three teenage children, he is an
Indianapolis native. Adam got his B.A. at I.U. Bloomington in 1984 and
MBA at the Finance Kelley School of Business in 2000. During his college
days in B-town Adam achieved what he considers his greatest cycling
accomplishment, being on the winning team of the 1984 Little 500. It was
the first year for the newly organized Cutters and was the first
independent team ever win the 500. He's been in
the floor covering industry for many years and is currently the Division
Manager for Louisville Tile Distributors in charge of their central
Indiana market.
John Kirchner, age 41, resides
in Indianapolis with his wife
Amy, and their 7-year old daughter, Mary Nell. He has been racing for 5
years and also participates in cyclocross,
mountain bike, and triathlon events when he is not peddling (pun intended)
his bicycle related products and travelling his
multi-state territory.
 Bran Boyer, 43, is a long time bike racer. Beginning in his native Pittsburgh as a junior, he
matriculated into the senior ranks as a category 2. His early cycling included
racing as a high school student, and as a member of the Penn State team, serving as
their captain in 1985. Bran moved to Carmel in 1994, where
he currently lives with his lovely wife Joan and three daughters. He is
extremely enthusiastic about returning to bike racing, sharing his old
passion between family and piloting for Northwest Airlines. And we are
equally excited about having him join us.
 Frank La Rondie, Age 48.
Frank hails from Edinburgh, Scotland and spent much
of his early years traveling the world with the British Army as an Aircraft
Engineer. A college pentathlete, Frank has
enjoyed competing in many sports from Kayak racing to Orienteering for the
Army. After a soccer injury to his knee in 1998 he took up cycling. In Britain, Time Trialing
is a major force so he was conditioned to the pain of "The Race of
Truth" from the onset. Now a Senior Systems Analyst with a major
pharmaceutical company Frank, his wife and 3 children moved to Indiana in 2000 for the
quality of family life and better weather than Britain. He loves to
ride and compete on his bike.
 Darrin
Lay, age 38, is the newest addition to
the Team, having raced for the Louisville Bicycle Club for the last three
years. Darrin placed 2nd in the Indiana/Kentucky Cat 3/4 District road race
in 2001 from a field of 60+ riders and has several good results since. He
and his wife Debbi have two lovely daughters; Taylor, age 10 and Meghan,
age 5 who are the apple of their eyes and they hope will be future cycling
champions. Darrin spends his "work time" as the Customer Service
Manager for a Printing firm in Louisville, KY.
 Rich MacInnes, age 47, is a
former national class half-miler converted to a devout cyclist. He is new
to the bike racing community but has logged in 35+ races in 2004,
experiencing success at all levels. He is coached by the Carmichael
Training System (CTS) and seeks to
become a national class rider. Rich is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy
’80, is a degreed engineer with an MBA is Global Management. He is
President of Net Results Inc., an international business consulting firm.
He is an author of two industry books with number three in the works. It is
not uncommon to find Rich pedaling away in the sands of the Middle East,
the bushes of South Africa, and the winding roads of the English Countryside…but he pedals best in the good old U.S. of
A.
 Preston Conrad the 54
year-old Texan by birth (now a Hoosier), lives in West Lafayette with
his wife Lyn. They are recent empty-nesters as their two children have
recently grown up and out. Preston has a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from
Purdue University and is a researcher for Eli Lilly and Company. He has many
years of bike racing experience, yet he is an example of always working hard
to improve, and he is a great team player.
 Bruce Gordon
resides in South Bend,
Indiana with his wife Stephanie and two
daughters. He is a successful real estate agent, and is
always “working the deal.” Bruce is a seasoned veteran
riding for the U.S in 2000 at the Sydney Paralympic Track in the kilo and
pursuit with many national disabled championships to his credit both on the
road and on the track. He excels on the bike despite the lack of his left
hand, which he lost in an industrial accident many years ago.
Bruce brings a winning, yet unselfish, attitude to our team.
We’ll enjoying working for him, because we know the reverse is true
as well.
Steve Gaylor,
age 40, resides in Louisville with his wife Sharon and three dogs. He has
been racing for 23 years on the road throughout the midwest and southeast.
One of Steve’s best races was the 2003 Master’s National Road Race, where he
placed 11th in a very tough and hard fought 35-39 men’s road
race. While age places him in the old guy categories, Steve still mixes it
up with the pro-1,2s and competes in tough races such as the Gateway Cup,
Athens Twilight and the Roswell Nalley Classic. His main strength is being
small enough to hide unnoticed in the peleton. Steve put this strength to
good use during the 2005 season, placing in the top ten 7 times. When not
riding his bike, Steve works as an enterprise architect for Humana,
specializing in J2EE and .NET development.
 Rick Holstein, 44, is a native of South
Carolina who got his start racing bikes while serving as a U.S. Army
intelligence officer in the early 80s. Between stints in the jungles and
deserts, he cut his teeth on the east coast racing scene before hanging up
the uniform and going back to graduate school in engineering. Rick has
resided in Louisville for the past 10 years, where he began racing again in
the masters ranks, most recently with the RT/Barbasol squad after serving as
founder and co-captain of the UPS masters team. At 6’4” and 200 lbs, Rick
is not easy on his bicycling equipment.
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