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Hard Working Mother of Two Makes Strides to Get More Women on Mountain Bikes

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When you think of mountain biking, places like Indiana may not intuitively pop into your head. I recently discovered Indiana does indeed have great mountain biking, but more importantly, it has a woman on a mission to grow the sport. Tania Juillerat decided to try mountain biking in March 2005 at the ripe age of 26. She hadn’t ridden a bike since she was 12, and that first taste of dirt had her hooked and wanting more. Struggling to find [...]
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Dixie Trix

Coaching + Competition = Freeride Fun

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Not just competing, but also mastering new tricks via coaching, is the focus of women’s freeride events scheduled this summer around the West. The concept came about at the Queen of the Mountain competition at Northstar in Lake Tahoe, where Kat Sweet told Lindsay Currier that she would coach the day before. When the idea was a major success, the two decided to create more of the same. Sweet noted that “Women seem to like to compete in a more [...]
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