Lauren Stephens fully committed to Aegis Foundation Cycling women's team as it heads toward 2026 rebrand as Next Step Racing

Lauren Stephens (Aegis Foundation Cycling) finished third at 2025 SBT GRVL
Lauren Stephens (Aegis Found🌊ation Cycling) finished third at 2025 SBT GRVL (Image credit: Future / Jackie Tyson)

The last 18 months has had more twists and turns than a television melodrama for two-time US gravel national c🌳haꦛmpion Lauren Stephens. After 12 years racing with UCI team𓃲s, primarily on the road, she embarked on an independent♕ programme to start her 2025 off-road campaign and then put the many pieces together to launch her own multi-discipline team, Aegis Cycling Foundation.

There's no shortage of victories and race podiums for the Texan, from winning the Pan American road race championship, taking back-to-back GC wins at the UCI-level 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of the Gila, two titles at Gravel Worlds in Nebraska and a pair of titles at the elite women's gravel nationals. She also won Levi's GranFondo 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:The Growler this year on a solo breakaway and dominated 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Bloom for the GC title.

Jackie Tyson
North American Production editor

Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (Franc🎉e), and some mtb rides in Pa⛦rk City, Utah (USA).

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