Andrea Dvorak is a professional cyclist. Her decorated career includes making the United States Olympic Long Team for the 2012 London Olympic Games, winning a stage of the Route de France, competing in multiple World Championships, winning a silver medal in the 2011 US National Road Race Championship, and winning the Cascade Cycling Classic Stage Race. In 2017, she won and set a course record at the Shenandoah Mountain 100 mountain bike race in a time of 8:07.
Currently, Andrea has shifted her focus to building interscholastic racing in Virginia. She is the League Director of NICA Virginia Interscholastic Cycling League & coach of the Miller School of Albemarle Endurance Team.
Andrea lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and spends summers in the Colorado Rockies. She is most at home on challenging climbs and mountainous race courses. Andrea's climbing has garnered her the Queen of the Mountains jersey at Redlands Classic, Tour of the Gila, Cascade Classic, and San Dimas Stage Race. Additionally, she finished sixth place in stage 2 of the Giro Rosa and won the hilliest stage of the Route de France in 2012.
Before beginning her professional cycling career in 2006, Andrea earned degrees in Spanish and Biology from the University of Virginia; she went on to graduate from U.Va. Law School and was admitted to the Virginia State Bar Association in 2006. While at U.Va., Dvorak ran cross-country, competed in triathlon, and raced for the collegiate cycling team. In 2003, she won the Collegiate Triathlon National Championships and spent the summer at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Her first professional road contract was with Colavita-Sutter Home.
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