2012 Hall of Fame Inductee
DEB (BRADLEY) KUEHL
CATEGORY: ROAD RACING
1966 - 10 years old - Wins 4 Silver Skates trophies (speed skating) & 2nd overall at Van deVeer Park
1970 - 14 years old - is licensed to race and in her first race she finishes First overall for the Women and well into the Boys Category despite going off course during the race!
1971 - 15 years old - Due to lack of Women's' Races, she enters events in the Boy's categories and finishes in the top 5 or 10. In one Race, she finished 2nd (in the Boys Race category) and was awarded a Tube of Lipstick! Organizers just didn't know what to do with female entrants.
1972 - 16 years old- Wins the Women's National Road Race! Title IX legislation is passed and signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
1973 - 17 years old - Wins the Women's' Open Class at the Moline Criterium. Places 2nd at the Windy City Wheelmen race in the Senior C Men's Division. Places 4th in the Women's' National Road Race and is invited to join the American World National team. She declines and registers for Nurses Training at Moline Public Hospital which was her dream.
1974 - 18 years old - Wins the Women's' Open Class at the Moline Criterium
1976 - 20 years old - Dreams of the Olympics are dashed when Women's' Cycling was not "approved" as an Olympic Sport. This came later in 1984
2012 Hall of Fame Inductee
JACQUE (BRADLEY) MYERS
CATEGORY: ROAD RACING
1975 - 12 years old - Midgets National Champion
1977 - 14 years old - Intermediate National Champion
1978 - 16 years old - Repeats as Intermediate National Champion, takes 1st Overall Women at the Moline Criterium
1981 - 18 years old - Member of US World Championship team, places 2nd at Junior Nationals, places 1st at the great Mohawk Carpet Cycling Classic in Atlanta over Connie Carpenter to take the biggest cash prize for women ever in the US . . . $15,000
1982 - 19 years of age - Becomes a member of the 1st Women's' 7-11 Racing team, Member of the US World Championship team riding support for Connie Carpenter who takes 2nd place.