Post by dirtrat on Mar 6, 2006 9:13:00 GMT 8
The wiry, olive-skinned teenager swears she wanted to excel.
No, not just excel, but be the best of the best.
Truth is Coryn Rivera, 13, is already the best cyclist in her class and age.
Not only around Tustin, California where she resides with her Filipino parents.
Coryn is the best in her class in the whole of the United States of America.
That’s not easy to believe going by her looks.
Coryn is lean, not exactly hefty, as power riders go.
But the latest listing in her achievement chart reads:
2005 USCF Junior National champion in individual time trial.
2005 USCF Junior National champion in criterium.
2005 SCNCA state champion in time trial.
2005 SCNCA Junior state champion in road race.
There’s actually a long list of her top finishes but her father, Wally, can’t hide his pride that his daughter, in 7th grade at the Pioneer Middle School, has become the best in her class and age in the whole of the USA.
“She’s a wonder girl, one of a kind,” says Rolando Hiso, former RP cycling team member, now based in Chicago.
Hiso, a great backer of RP riders in international meets, has gone out of his way to plug for the young US national cycling champ.
In a way, Hiso is sending a message to responsible RP sports decision makers to look and see for themselves.
A sample of her excellence is reflected in her race results in 2005: Red Trolley Classic,2/6/2005, Jr. women 13-14, first; St. Valentine’s Day Criterium, 2/13/2005, Jr. women 13-14, first; Valley of the Sun, 2/18/2005 Jr. women, 12-14, first.
Of course, it was not always win, win, win for this wonder girl.
She also had to scramble from behind but, through the painstaking guidance of her father, a former Tondo resident, Coryn was exposed to a scientific regimen.
She does train hard, everyday. But Coryn, 13 going on 14, does not sacrifice her studies.
She also happens to be a straight-A student, beams the proud father.
She has discipline, determination and a burning ambition to excel.
Coryn says one of her ultimate goals is to participate in the Olympics.
She lists as her goal: To develop my cycling skills in a scientific and proven form of training without taking the fun away from cycling in order to win national championships, state championships; to qualify for the junior worlds in the future and ultimately to become an Olympian.
Coryn Rivera may not look it, but she’s definitely headed for the top
But here’s the most significant thing she has said: She wants to represent the Philippines in the Olympics.
Before the USA gets a stranglehold on this born winner, Ms Rivera has listed her email at c.riveraracing@yahoo.com
Source:
news.inq7.net/sports/index.php?index=1&story_id=68354
No, not just excel, but be the best of the best.
Truth is Coryn Rivera, 13, is already the best cyclist in her class and age.
Not only around Tustin, California where she resides with her Filipino parents.
Coryn is the best in her class in the whole of the United States of America.
That’s not easy to believe going by her looks.
Coryn is lean, not exactly hefty, as power riders go.
But the latest listing in her achievement chart reads:
2005 USCF Junior National champion in individual time trial.
2005 USCF Junior National champion in criterium.
2005 SCNCA state champion in time trial.
2005 SCNCA Junior state champion in road race.
There’s actually a long list of her top finishes but her father, Wally, can’t hide his pride that his daughter, in 7th grade at the Pioneer Middle School, has become the best in her class and age in the whole of the USA.
“She’s a wonder girl, one of a kind,” says Rolando Hiso, former RP cycling team member, now based in Chicago.
Hiso, a great backer of RP riders in international meets, has gone out of his way to plug for the young US national cycling champ.
In a way, Hiso is sending a message to responsible RP sports decision makers to look and see for themselves.
A sample of her excellence is reflected in her race results in 2005: Red Trolley Classic,2/6/2005, Jr. women 13-14, first; St. Valentine’s Day Criterium, 2/13/2005, Jr. women 13-14, first; Valley of the Sun, 2/18/2005 Jr. women, 12-14, first.
Of course, it was not always win, win, win for this wonder girl.
She also had to scramble from behind but, through the painstaking guidance of her father, a former Tondo resident, Coryn was exposed to a scientific regimen.
She does train hard, everyday. But Coryn, 13 going on 14, does not sacrifice her studies.
She also happens to be a straight-A student, beams the proud father.
She has discipline, determination and a burning ambition to excel.
Coryn says one of her ultimate goals is to participate in the Olympics.
She lists as her goal: To develop my cycling skills in a scientific and proven form of training without taking the fun away from cycling in order to win national championships, state championships; to qualify for the junior worlds in the future and ultimately to become an Olympian.
Coryn Rivera may not look it, but she’s definitely headed for the top
But here’s the most significant thing she has said: She wants to represent the Philippines in the Olympics.
Before the USA gets a stranglehold on this born winner, Ms Rivera has listed her email at c.riveraracing@yahoo.com
Source:
news.inq7.net/sports/index.php?index=1&story_id=68354