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Alumni & Friends
Old & New
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Name: Bakken, Johan
Nickname:: Doogie Howser
Age: 27
Height: 185 cm
Weight: 75 kg
Hometown: Oslo, Norway
Year: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Class of 2005
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
The B-52: 5mg Haldol + 2 mg Ativan, IV
Experience: University of Minnesota Cycling Team, Minneapolis, MN
LSV Cycling Team, Baltimore, MD
Sykkelklubben Rye, Oslo, Norway
Why I Race?: They sometimes hand out free PowerBars
at races.
Favorite Quote: "Look at his hulking carcass!" - Phil Liggett
Coke or Pepsi: Tab
Other (optional): Where are the podium girls I keep seeing on TV? Why aren’t they at my races?
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Name: Bankova, Lora
Nickname::
Age: 28
Height: 5'4"
Weight: You don't ask a lady about her weight!
Hometown: Sofia, Bulgaria
Year:
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
Smile
Experience:
Why I Race?: Kris said it's fun.
Favorite Quote:
Coke or Pepsi: COKE
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Name: Brignole, Ed
Nickname:: Eddy B
Age: grandpa. seriously, I think I'm balding.
Height: 1.67m
Weight: 67 kg
Hometown: Baltimore, MD, been here so long I've
started calling it home.
Year: Ph.D. in '05, lost count how many years it's taken.
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice): I'm a lover not a fighter.
Trek 5200 "Carmen". Trek 5900.
Experience: see above. all of them memorable.
- 2003 Mid-atlantic road race champ cat 3
- 2002 NCCA TTT champ (D II)
- 2003 NCCA TTT champ (D II)
- 2004 NCCA crit 5th (D II)
Why I Race?: It makes the world go around (especially crits).
No sport can teach you limits like cycling.
Favorite Quote: "Don't eat peanut butter and jelly before
talking on the air" -- Dee Alvis, WTMD
Coke or Pepsi: Soy milk
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Name: Cusack, Thomas
Nickname:: Tom, Tommy
Age: 21
Height: 5'11.99999"
Weight: 180
Hometown: Englishtown, NJ
Year: '06
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
Trek 2100 Composite. Throwing knives for close up work.
Experience: Riding far...fast.
Why I Race?: Nothing is better for the body and mind.
Takes discipline and leaves you healthy and tired.
Favorite Quote: "Never, never, never quit" - Winston Churchill
Coke or Pepsi: Guiness
Other (optional): Cycling rules because of the Hopkins 24K. Look into it.
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Name: Leis, Amber
Nickname:: Back in the hippie undergrad ultimate
frisbee days, I was the A-bomb.
Age: 24
Height: 5'8"
Weight: HAH!
Hometown: Sisters, Oregon
Year: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,
Class of 2008
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
Until I discovered it was a rookie mistake:
my lucky underwear.
Experience: I used to mountain bike, but this is my first
season on a road bike. Other than that, I've been a committed
tour watcher since '99
Why I Race?: It feels damn good, why else?
Favorite Quote: "Much unhappiness has come into the
world because of things left unsaid." ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Coke or Pepsi: Diet coke with lime, because I'm
neurotic like that.
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Name: Liu, Andrew
Nickname: Liu tang/Liutennant
Height: 5'??"
Weight: ?
Hometown: Dallas, TX
Year: 2007
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
Water Bottle
Experience: 1 Year
Why I Race?: Racing is pain, pain is good, therefore
Racing is good.
Favorite Quote:
Coke or Pepsi: Pepsi blue!!!
Other (optional): EE Major, Cipollini is teh leet
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Name: Mok, Priscilla
Nickname: pmok, cilla
Height: 5'7"
Weight: no clue
Hometown: Hong Kong (8 yrs)/Chicago (8 yrs).
I love them both equally.
Year: Freshman
Major: Neuroscience/Psychological
and Brain Sciences (for now)
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
my darling, my baby, my…Trek 5000
Experience: 1st year racing, oh boy
Why I Race?:
because the same kind of high would
cost wayy more than a bike
Favorite Quote:
"If you’re tough enough every road is flat." - Lance Armstrong
" Ride to win, study to pass."
Other (optional):
I like chocolate GU on bananas.
Go ahead, laugh all you want.
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Name: Pang, Priscilla
Nickname: P-Killa
Age: XX
Height: .002658 nautical miles, hunched over.
Weight: too heavy to climb fast, too light to descend fast.
Hometown: raised by wild buffalos in the harsh, harsh
suburban streets of grand prairie, tx, surviving on nothing but
tacos and the occasional roadkill.
Year: three years ahead of Toby "I'm Goatboy, BAAAA" Weatherall, and two years ahead of Katie "Chimney Lungs" Ross.
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
mongoose-like reflexes and a generous helping of the evil eye.
Experience: remember that story with the bear and boy with the pie, and the boy ate the pie, and then the bear at the boy? Yeah.
I was the pie. Man, that was harrowing.
Why I Race?: 'cos the guys shave their legs, and it's hawt.
Favorite Quote: "roses are read, violets are blue, you are a bread, I am love you" (from whiteinjacomics)
Coke or Pepsi: a caffeine IV with a hint of amphetamines
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Name: Soladay, Matt
Nickname: #2......or Focker
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 160lbs of cookie dough,, play dough...any kind of dough.
Hometown: Bethesda, MD
Year: Junior - Nursing Student
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
2004 Giant TCR Compact Road, 2004 Fuji team SL, pink
flamingo's.
Experience: Raced half of the 2004 season as a C rider at the
University of Maryland, College Park; and some random USCF races.
Why I Race?: Excuse for shaving my legs.
Favorite Quote: "Half of being fast...is looking fast"
Coke or Pepsi: One Shirley Temple please...don't forget
the cherries.
Other (optional): I seem to have knee's that like
to argue, and as of now they are winning...
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Name: Tan, Frederick
Nickname: "that bitch who drives the bikes"
Height:5'6"
Weight: 135lb
Hometown: Trumbull, CT
Year: Graduate Student
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
granny gear
Experience: 1 season
Why I Race?: chipotle fajita burrito, mcdonald's french
fries and trika's rap music.
Favorite Quote: "that practice didn't sit too well with me"
Coke or Pepsi: coke
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Name: terMeulen, Ryan
Nickname:: been dubbed 'Termite'
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 175 lbs.
Hometown: Milford, PA
Year: SuperSenior
Major: Electrical Engineering/Music Composition
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
Bloomer and I have twins. Very confusing.
Experience:
None, I'm a hidden talent. Loving those TTs...
Why I Race?:
: To put my obsessive tendencies to good use.
You will never feel more alive than in that
single moment when months of effort finally
pay off all at once.
Favorite Quote:
A lesser-known quote by the man (L.A.):
“One prick says, ‘He’s not so hot,’ and
that’s fuel. That’s motivation.
Whenever I come across that stuff I hit
SAVE and store it on the hard drive.”
Other:
When you can see the moon zigzagging
through the sky in the middle of the day,
you know that the race you just finished
really did leave you oxygen-deprived.
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Name: Wolff, Rebecca
Nickname:: Becky
Age: 19
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125
Hometown: Chevy Chase, MD
Year: Freshman
Bike(s)/Parts (Weapon of Choice):
Experience: Absolutely none
Why I Race?: Cause it seems like fun :-)
Favorite Quote:
Coke or Pepsi: Coke
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