Brooke Miller

Infobox Cyclist
ridername = Brooke Miller


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fullname = Brooke Miller
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dateofbirth = birth date and age|df=yes|1976|3|21
country = USA
height = height|m=1.78Official|http://www.brookecycling.com/]
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discipline = Road
role = Rider
ridertype = Sprinter
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amateuryears =
proyears = 2003–2005
2005
2006
2007–
proteams = UCSC Cycling
Squadra Torani
PABW Powered by TIBCO
Team TIBCO
majorwins = flagicon|USA Multiple National Champion
updated = 3 September 2008

Brooke Miller (born 21 March 1976)Official|http://www.brookecycling.com/] is an American professional road racing cyclist and the current US national criterium and road race champion.

Biography

Brooke Miller was born in Huntington Beach, California. She did not start to cycle until she was in graduate school, she had been an elite volleyball player at the University of California at Berkeley. It was not until Miller was invited to attend the USA Cycling Women’s Talent ID camp in 2005, that she learned that women peak older than men, she then started to take cycling seriously. [cite web| url=http://www.chicagobikeracing.com/index.php/site/post/cbr_interview_brooke_miller/| title=CBR interview: Brooke Miller| publisher=Chicago Bike Racing| date=10 August 2007] cite web| url=http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_10327219?source=most_emailed| title=Brooke Miller: Counting down the days until London Olympics| author=Leo Maxam| publisher=Santa Cruz Sentinel| date=28 August 2008]

Miller became a member of the US National Team in 2007, and competed in Europe, coming second in the first stage and winning the third stage of the Tour de l'Ardèche in France. She also came third in the third stage of the Holland Ladies Tour in Denekamp.

She graduated with a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in spring 2007, [cite web| url=http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/05-23/awards-cyclist.asp| title=Awards and Honors - UCSC's Brooke Miller wins cycling championship| publisher=UC Santa Cruz] and began racing full time in 2008, although she does work as a software developer in her spare time.

Following her successful racing season in 2007, Miller continued to ride for Team TIBCO in 2008, and is also the team's Marketing Director, managing "sponsor relations and strategic development, establishing and strengthening growth-oriented industry partnerships." [cite web| url=http://www.teamtibco.com/pressroom.html| title=Contact| publisher=Team TIBCO]

She is the 2008 United States National Road Race and Criterium Champion. Miller won the first women's criterium to be held alongside the men's Tour of California, the race was sponsored by the Redwood Regional Breast Center. [cite web| url=http://www.amgentourofcalifornia.com/news/press/2008-criterium-results.html| title=Tibco's Brooke Miller Wins First Ever Amgen Tour of California Women's Criterium in Santa Rosa| publisher=Amgen Tour of California] She also competed in the Tour de l'Aude and the Tour of New Zealand.

Miller's ultimate goal is an Olympic gold medal, she had dreamed of this since she was a child. She began chasing her dream in volleyball, but is now aiming for gold in the road race at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Palmarès

;2006:1st Stage 2, Nature Valley Grand Prix, Cannon Falls:1st Stage 5, Tour de Toona, Martinsburg

;2007:1st Martinez:1st Santa Clarita:2nd Stage 1, Central Valley Classic:2nd Indio Grand Prix:1st Stage 2, Nature Valley Grand Prix, Cannon Falls:3rd Stage 4, Nature Valley Grand Prix, Minneapolis:3rd Stage 6, Holland Ladies Tour, Denekamp (NED):2nd Stage 1, Tour de l'Ardèche (FRA):1st Stage 3, Tour de l'Ardèche, Cruas (FRA)

;2008:1st flagicon|USA United States National Road Race Championships:1st flagicon|USA United States National Criterium Championships:1st Tour of California Women's Criterium, Santa Rosa:2nd Central Valley Classic, Fresno:2nd Stage 5, Le Tour du Grand Montréal, Mont-Saint-Hilaire (CAN):2nd Liberty Classic:3rd Stage 1, Nature Valley Grand Prix, St. Paul Lowertown:1st Stage 4, Nature Valley Grand Prix, Minneapolis:1st Manhattan Beach GP:1st Davis:3rd Stage 2, Cascade Classic, Three Creeks Snow Park:1st Stage 4, Cascade Classic, Oregon:3rd Chicago:2nd Bank of America Invitational:1st Hanes Park Classic

References

External links

*Official|http://www.brookecycling.com/
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