Team
Team Rambuski Law – Meet the Team:
Edwin Rambuski
Edwin was born in upstate NY in 1958. Edwin began cycling in 1985 after a few years of triathlons. His cyclocross career began in earnest in 1999. Edwin finished 19th at his first cyclocross National Championship in 1999. Edwin has traveled to Belgium the last 4 years, competing in local cross races and the last 4 masters World Championships, finishing as high as 22nd at Worlds.
Trina Baumsteiger
Trina’s competitive career started early through volleyball, basketball, soccer and she actually played on the men’s high school soccer team. Trina started racing competitively for California Polytechnic State University in 1992. After winning the team time trial and overall team placing at Nationals in 1992 in Rome, Georgia, Trina continued racing on the road and dirt. Trina’s cyclocross career started in 2005 where she raced for Black Market Racing. She has placed 2nd at Master’s Worlds in Mol, Belgium 4 consecutive years, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Entertained by the sport of cyclocross, she continues to race competitively at local west and east coast races as well as Cyclocross National Championships and Master’s Worlds Championships.
Karen Brems
Karen grew up in Champaign-Urbana, IL doing gymnastics. She attended the University of Illinois on a gymnastics scholarship. After college, she moved to CA and started cycling – first recreationally, then amateur triathlons, and eventually got hooked on road racing and raced professionally for 9 years. Accomplishments included winning the Time
Trial at the Elite World Championships in 1994 and representing the US at the Sydney Olympics in the road race and time trial.
After retiring from international racing and going back to work as a Software Engineer, she was eventually drawn back into the racing scene as Manager and DS for the Webcor Builders Professional women’s team. The team had a good 7 year run, including qualifying 5 riders on 2 Olympic teams.
In 2008, Karen took up CycloCross as a “retirement sport”. In the Elite Women’s category, she won the BASP overall series in 2009, the CCCX series in 2009 and 2010, and the Surf City CX Series in 2010. She was 3rd in the W45-49 category at US CX nationals in 2009.
Devon Gorry
Devon loves cyclocross! She started racing in Chicago during graduate school 5 years ago and has been hooked ever since. In 2008 she claimed the Collegiate National Championship and is now the reigning Masters 30-34 National Champion. During the “off” season, Devon races professionally on the road for team NOW and Novartis for MS.
Kevin Merrigan
Kevin began racing cyclocross in 1985 at Surf City in Felton and quickly realized he was good at it. The results he is most proud of include a Masters National Championship win in 1999 in S.F., 6 Elite/Senior top ten finishes at Nationals with a 4th in 1996 at Seattle and a 5th in 1992 at Golden, CO. An overall victory in the Surf City Cyclocross Series in 1993 after going 4th, 3rd, 2nd the three previous years ranks up there too. He also went to Worlds in 1997 and finished 49th in the Elite race in Munich, Germany.
On the MTB side of things Kevin had numerous top 5 finishes in Expert races at NORBA National events in the mid 1990s with 2 wins in 1994 and 1995 at Traverse City, MI and 2nd places in Spokane, WA and Mt. Snow, VT as the most memorable. The best Nor Cal MTB victory has to be 1st Pro Overall at the Lemurian Shasta Classic in 1999 on the EPIC original course at Shasta Dam in a near record time of 2hrs 27min. Last season Kevin was the overall winner of both the BASP and Surf City series, with 5 wins and 5 second place finishes.
Karl Ehlert
Before racing 4 seasons of cyclocross, Karl had raced a combination road and mountain bike racing. He is currently a masters 45+ cat 3 on the road and expert category in the dirt. His best results came while racing in the 45+B’s where he won 2 local race series (Surf City and CCCX) and unofficial best all around racer (BAR) for the season.
Racing 45A’s last year for the first time, he was hampered by a broken clavicle at the start of the season, but was able to race the second half, including a mid-pack finish at Nationals.
Chris Jackson
Chris started as a triathlete completing his first triathlon as a Cal Poly Mustang in 2007. After 4 years of competitive triathlon racing, he decided to focus primarily on cycling. In 2010, his first year of cyclocross, he earned elite status, finished 14th at collegiate nationals, and finished 2nd overall in the SoCal Cross Fever series.
2011 has been promising thus far as he earned a win at the Sea Otter Classic (MTB Cat 19-24) and Team Big Bear MTB Series Champion (Cat 1 19-24). As he gears up for the 2011-2012 cyclocross season, Chris looks to make a name for himself both on the local and national level.
Courtney Van Dimple
After retiring from a long and successful collegiate golf career, Courtney was convinced by a co-worker to check out this “really awesome sport,” cyclocross! The intensity, speed, and challenge got her hooked! When she’s not racing on 32 mm knobby tires, Courtney can be found racing a bike with 23 mm tires, and Kitten stickers, as she’s been guest riding for a Professional Women’s team, Vanderkitten-Focus for most of 2011.
Logan Kelsey
Logan was a professional mountain bike racer for 6+ years. He was ranked in the top 15 in the US and was a member of Team Marin (Marin Mountain Bikes Pro Team). He competed in multiple World Championships as a professional and finished 10th in the elite race at the Cyclocross National Championships way back in 1991. He retired from racing in mid 1990’s but has recently found a renewed passion for cyclocross.
Now competing as a Master in the hyper-competitive NorCal circuit, Logan often refers to cyclocross simply as “the beautiful sport”.