Returning for 2025 is the ACC Junior Criterium Cup presented by Renaissance Financial for athletes 15 to 16 and 17 to 18 years old. Designed to share the limelight of the ACC with athletes of the future, the Junior Criterium Cup will award Jerseys and talent ID opportunities to the next generation of American cyclists. Renaissance Financial proudly affirms “We are honored to support such an esteemed event that aligns with our values of community engagement and youth empowerment.”
The ACC Junior Criterium Cup presented by Renaissance Financial will award daily winner’s jerseys to the young men and women competing in the 15-16 and 17-18 Junior Categories. New, for the 2025 season, ACC Renaissance Financial Junior Series points will be awarded at the USA Cycling Junior National Championships criterium events, in addition to the 6 ACC race dates. In addition to daily awards, points will be tracked towards an overall ranking for the 7-race series. Series leaders will be recognized at the end of the competition.
Beyond the competition, the Junior winners in each of the four categories will gain access to mentorship from four of the top US Criterium racers; Luke Lamperti, US National Champion and member of the UCI Soudal Quick Step World Tour Team, Coryn Labecki, Education First Pro Cyclist and US National Champion, Danny Summerhill, ACC 2023 Champion and former US National Team member, and Andrea Cyr, 2023 ACC Runner Up and professional cyclist for the Fount Cycling Guild Racing Team.
Coryn, Luke, Danny, and Andrea will be available for mentorship and consultation through the Fall/Winter post season, helping the younger athletes with vision, decisions, and inspiration as they chart their paths in cycling. This peer-to-peer engagement is intended to create a connection from junior to senior, and help the riders navigate their progress.
American Criterium Cup Junior Series Presented by Renaissance Financial Junior Camp
All four winners of the ACC Junior Series will be invited to attend a unique January training camp in Tucson, Arizona at The Cycling House, an athlete resident training company. The team camp will consist of a multi-day pre-season camp led by Pros and the TCH Guides. Each day will feature rides, skills, nutrition, and conversation in preparation for the 2025 season.
Room, board, and mentoring will all be provided by the ACC to help make the Tucson training camp accessible to the ACC Champions.
About the ACC Mentors
Kendall Ryan
Kendall has been racing bikes since she was 6 years old. Her racing background consists of road, track, cyclocross, marathon and cross country mountain biking. She started racing internationally when she was 15 years old through USAC development camps and opportunities. She signed her first pro contract right out of high school when she was 18 years old with TIBCO-SVB. As a Junior she won the 15-16 Criterium National Championship and 17-18 Points Race National Championship on the Track. In 2018 she became a Tour of California Stage Winner [World Tour]. She was a 2020(1) Tokyo Olympic Alternate for the Women’s Track Program in the Team Pursuit, Madison, and Omnium. She has represented the USA at the World Championships 6 times in 3 different disciplines(road, xc mtb, and track). She is the only athlete, man or woman, to win the Gastown GP Criterium in Canada 4 times in a row. Three time winner of UCI 1.2 Delta Road Race in Canada.
She is the current USA Pro Criterium National Champion which she has won 4 times. She is one of the most feared sprinters in the US racing circuit. With a collection of wins, back to back and hat trick wins all over the USA – including ACC events – Athens Twilight, Spartanburg, Tulsa Tough, Armed Forces, Manhattan Beach GP, Littleton, Salt Lake Criterium, Chicago Grit, and many more.
Laurel Rathbun
Laurel, lives in San Diego, CA but she grew up in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she began racing bikes at seven years old. Over the years, she competed across nearly every cycling discipline; road, track, cyclocross, and mountain bike accumulating lots of junior titles
At 18, she signed her first professional contract with the Raleigh-Clement cyclocross team, marking the start of her pro career. In 2016, while racing the Tour of Britain, she suffered a serious crash that led to a long recovery and eventually her retirement from professional cycling in 2019.
After five years away from the sport, Laurel made a return to the pro peloton in 2024 with Legion of Los Angeles.
Coryn Labecki
Coryn has been a bike racer for over two decades, getting her start as an 11-year-old. She grew up racing mountain bike, cyclocross, track cycling, and road racing in southern California. Over the years and across the disciplines, she has won over 74 national titles and is currently the 2X American criterium national champion.
She is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to one-day racing or punchy climbs, having won the Tour of Flanders, RideLondon Classique, Trofeo Alfredo Binda, as well as stages at the Giro d’Italia Women, the Women’s Tour, Thüringen Ladies Tour, and the Lotto Belgium Tour. She is currently retired from the professional peloton, finishing her career at the UCI professional team EF Education – Cannondale.
Andrea Cyr
Andrea began racing the professional racing circuit in 2019 but has been riding her bike since her collegiate soccer days. She was runner-up in the American Criterium Cup race series in both 2022 and 2023, as well as supporting her teammate for the overall win in 2023. Last year, she raced with the Goldman-Sachs ETFS, finding continued success and multiple podium finishes in the best criteriums here in the US. She finished 3rd in the ACC sprint competition in 2024.
Outside of cycling she is a double-boarded physician in sports medicine and physical medicine & rehabilitation, practicing medicine in her Indiana home as medical director of Indianapolis Rehabilitation Hospital. Growing up in northern Maine, she found an early love for cross-country skiing and uses this as winter cross-training in addition to cyclocross to prepare for the road season which criteriums as her focus. For the 2025 Season she will be racing with Fount Cycling Guild.
Luke Lamperti
Hailing from California, where he began riding dirt bikes at the age of three, Luke has turned in recent seasons into one of the most sought-after young riders out there as a result of his numerous victories and impressive potential shown in both sprints and one-day races.
A resident of Girona, Spain, Luke a remarkable palmares for the age of 20: a three-time US Criterium National Champion – a unique achievement in the race’s history – he’s also put his name on the winners’ list at the GiroNextGen, Tour of Japan, Tour de Bretagne, Volta ao Alentejo, Tour of Taiwan, and the Lincoln Grand Prix – all in the last two years.
Danny Summerhill
2024 Top American in the ACC, and 2023 American Criterium Cup points and series winner, Danny has proven himself to be one of the most versatile racers in the US pro peloton. Riding in 2024 for Reign Storm Racing, formerly known as American Cycling Group, his consistency on the US criterium circuit made inroads into the dominance that L39ion has held over the discipline since they came into the scene.
Tim Smith
Tim began racing in St. Louis in 2018 and quickly climbed the ranks of America’s amateur cycling scene. He is drawn to the grit and strategy of hilly, technical courses.
Over the past several seasons, Tim has competed with notable teams including Texas Roadhouse Cycling and Reign Storm Racing. He now races with the Chaney Windows and Doors Pastaria Team, where he continues to sharpen his skills and race with purpose. In this year’s American Criterium Cup, Tim earned his best overall result to date, 7th place, while also playing a key role in helping his teammate, Owen Gillot, secure the sprint competition title.
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