Atlanta – Team Type 1 will field a versatile roster sprinkled with international flavor and experience when it begins its third season as a men’s professional team in 2010.

In 2009, Team Type 1 won 55 races, finished fourth in the National Racing Calendar (NRC) standings and captured the King of the Mountains title at five races, including the Tour of Missouri. In two seasons, the squad has registered 100 victories and 219 podium (top three) finishes.

Team Type 1 is the world’s only professional cycling team with a roster that includes riders who have Type 1 diabetes. Established in 2004 by Phil Southerland and Joe Eldridge, the team strives to instill hope and inspiration for people around the world affected by diabetes.

Southerland said the team’s previous success paves the way for an expanded racing calendar in 2010 that will include competition in North and South America, as well as Europe, Asia and Africa.

“We have had two great years with a great group of guys,” Southerland said. “The beauty of our team is the impact we have. With this roster, we hope to leave a long-lasting – and winning – impression on people around the globe.”

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Moab, Utah – Team Type 1’s Kerry White is approaching this weekend’s USA Cycling 24-Hour Mountain Bike National Championships as a personal battle, rather than a competition against thousands of other racers.

White will be the only member of Team Type 1’s Elite team competing in the race in Moab, Utah. The race that begins Saturday at noon will be run in conjunction with the 15th edition of the 24 Hours of Moab, one of the country’s most prestigious mountain bike races. The 39-year-old native of Sydney, Australia, who lives in Vail, Colo., finished third in the solo women’s division at Moab last year.

“Last year, this race didn’t double as the national championship so I’m going to be significantly more humbled this year,” White said. “I do these races because I love to ride my bike. It is not really about results, winning or prestige. It is about challenging myself personally.”

Since her diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 11, White has strived to spread the message that having diabetes should not put the brakes on your goals. In 2007, she was the only solo woman to finish the Race Across America (RAAM), completing the more than 3,000-mile race in 13 days. Twice, she has been a member of the winning four-woman team in RAAM.

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Atlanta – Former professional cyclist and reigning Radweltpokal masters world champion Michael Carter will be an assistant director for Team Type 1 in 2010, the team announced Tuesday.

Carter raced from 1984 to 1993 and later directed the first China registered professional cycling team, the Marco Polo Cycling Team. In addition to competing in all three Grand Tours (the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España) the American’s career highlights include a victory in the DuPont Pro Cycling Championships in 1990 and third place overall in the Tour de Romandie in 1991.

At the age of 46, Carter remains a competitive cyclist and owner of his own coaching business. Last month, he won the 45-plus division of the Radweltpokal road race at the World Cup championships in St. Johann, Austria.

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Cape Girardeau, Mo. – Team Type 1 continued to put its mark on the Tour of Missouri Tuesday, thanks to another fine effort from Moises Aldape.

The Mexican donned the Michelob Ultra King of the Mountains jersey following the 102.4-mile (180.9 km) race from Ste. Genevieve to Cape Girardeau. Aldape beat Chris Anker Sorensen (Team Saxo Bank) on both of the designated climbs to tie the Dane on points (22). But Aldape earned the right to wear the jersey due to his higher position on the overall classification.

Aldape did slip from second to fourth, thanks to time bonuses awarded at the finish. He sits 12 seconds off the overall lead of Mark Cavendish (Team Columbia-HTC), who has won both stages of the race.

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St. Louis – Team Type 1 enjoyed a trio of success Monday by earning the Drury Hotels Most Aggressive Rider jersey, a third place in the final race of the Tour of Missouri Womens Series and a runner-up fiinish in the last National Racing Calendar (NRC) event of the season.

The remarkable day in the history of the cycling program that serves to inspire people affected by diabetes was summed up best by Team Type 1 Founder Phil Southerland. He addressed the massive crowd at the finish of the Tour of Missouri in Downtown St. Louis.

“What we’re trying to do is raise awareness that people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, with good control and a healthy diet and lifestyle, can achieve great things,” Southerland said. “Thank you, Missouri, for having us.”

Team Type 1’s Moises Aldape was the talk of the opening day of the seven-stage, 611-mile race. The Mexican Olympian figured prominently in a three-man breakaway during the 10-lap, 75-mile circuit race. By winning two of the three intermediate sprints along the way and being the last of the three to be caught by the chasing pack, he climbed into second overall. He was also awarded the Most Aggressive Rider jersey in a vote of a panel of four journalists.

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St. Louis – Team Type 1’s Samantha Schneider heads into the final race of the Tour of Missouri Womens Series eyeing a third straight top-three finish.

The 18-year-old scored her second straight third-place result on Sunday when she finished behind Giro Della Montagna presented by Specialized Bicycles winner Brooke Miller (Team TIBCO) and runner-up Kelly Benjamin (Colavita-Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light). Miller has won all three races of the series in St. Louis.
Today’s final event is the Tour of Missouri Pro/Am presented by Greenstreet Properties. The 50-minutes-plus-five-laps race takes place on a flat, one-mile course that features the same finish line as this afternoon’s Tour of Missouri men’s professional race.

Schneider said she is looking forward to the opportunity to add to the 71 podium finishes the Team Type 1 women’s professional squad has racked up this season. Today’s race is its final team event of the year.

“I’m feeling better every day so it should be good,” Schneider said. “I want to get better than third.”

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Atlanta – Team Type 1 will register as a UCI Continental team for the 2010 season, CEO and Founder Phil Southerland announced on the eve of the Greenville Hospital System USA Cycling Professional Championship weekend.

“Thanks to our great sponsors and partners, we now have a clearer picture of our long-term program,” Southerland said. “We head into next season with the intention of going after Pro Continental status in 2011.”

In 2009, Team Type 1 was one of 13 Continental teams licensed through USA Cycling and the International Cycling Union (UCI). Only one U.S.-based squad was registered as a Pro Continental team.

The Team Type 1 men’s professional team, which was founded in 2008 following a pair of amateur victories at the Race Across America (RAAM) in 2006 and 2007, has achieved 98 victories and 215 podium finishes. Co-founder Joe Eldridge and Southerland are two of four riders on the squad who have Type 1 diabetes.

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Winston-Salem, N.C. – A flat rear tire nearly deflated Aldo Ino Ilesic’s hopes of scoring Team Type 1’s 50th victory of the season Sunday at the Hanes Park Classic in Winston-Salem, N.C.

Fortunately, the mishap occurred moments before the free lap period expired. Team Type 1 Technician Alex Banyay made a quick wheel change and shoved Ilesic back into the race. Three laps later, the 24-year-old Slovenian was freewheeling across the finish line with his arms in the air as race winner.

The internationally flavored podium of the National Racing Calendar (NRC) event was completed by Australian Ben Kertsten (Fly V Australia) in second and Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Colavita-Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light) of Argentina in third.

Ilesic’s victory was his third in the past five days and his sixth of the season. He earned a pair of victories at the Giordana Crossroads Classic on Wednesday (Mocksville Criterium in Mocksville, N.C.) and Thursday (Cabarrus Creamery Criterium in Concord, N.C.). It was also Team Type 1’s fourth win in an NRC event.

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Charlotte, N.C. – They didn’t win the race, but Team Type 1’s Aldo Ino Ilesic and Valeriy Kobzarenko made a memorable showing Saturday night at the Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium.

In front of a massive crowd in Downtown Charlotte, N.C., the pair integrated themselves into the decisive breakaway of the 50-mile (80 km) National Racing Calendar (NRC) event.

But it was David Veilleux (Kelly Benefit Strategies) who pulled off the most heroic move of the night, soloing to victory from Ilesic, Kobzarenko and eight others who had left the field behind at the race’s halfway point.

Ilesic went on to finish second, winning the sprint of the remaining breakaway riders. Karl Menzies (OUCH presented by Maxxis) was third.

“He surprised us,” Ilesic said of Veilleux’s move that earned him a check for $12,500. “No one expected he would go. And only two guys were pulling to bring him back, Kobzarenko and Luis Amaran (of Colavita-Sutter Home presented by Cooking Light). I had to wait for the sprint. That was my job.”

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Bend, Ore. – Team Type 1 put the finishing touches on an already successful week of racing at the USA Cycling Elite National Championships with a 1-2 finish Sunday in the women’s Under 23 criterium.

Samantha Schneider and Jacquelyn Crowell attacked the field a third of the way into the race and rode away to finish first and second, respectively, in the 21-mile (35 km) race through the downtown streets of Bend, Ore. Lauren Hecht (Webcor Alto Velo) won the field sprint for third.

For the four days of the event, Team Type 1 came away with two gold medals, a silver, a bronze, and a fifth-place podium finish. It was an impressive performance that brought a big grin to the normally stoic face of Women’s Team Director Jack Seehafer.

“We’re definitely pleased with our performance,” Seehafer said. “It’s been a really good first year for us.”

Crowell’s silver medal adds to the gold she won in the Under 23 individual time trial on Friday. In the same event, Team Type 1’s Alison Powers earned a bronze medal in the elite ranks. And on Thursday, Team Type 1’s Kori Seehafer finished fifth in the elite road race.

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