Skylar Schneider will represent the United States at the UCI Road World Championships for the third time, and as an accomplished sprinter who has been a member of Team Tivico to the Top since the age of 14 and has already spent 10 seasons on the professional team, it is hard to believe that this will be her first time competing at a World Championships as part of an elite women's team. It is hard to believe that this is her first time competing at the World Championships as a member of an elite women's team.

The Wisconsin native, whose name is synonymous with criterium racing, is part of a seven-member USA Cycling team that will compete at the World Championships in Wollongong, Australia. 2016 UCI Road World Championships Junior Road Race, Elite World The silver medalist behind champion Elisa Balsamo will celebrate her 24th birthday the day before the start of the 164.3km elite women's road race from Helensburgh to Wollongong on Saturday.

"Ever since it was announced a few years ago that the 2022 World Championships would be held in Wollongong, Australia, it has been a very big goal of mine to be there. A few weeks ago, while awaiting his return to the U.S. from a two-week stay in Europe, Schneider told CyclingNews,

"I was very excited to be there.

Schneider, along with Heidi Franz (InstaFund Racing), will be the two women selected for the Wollongong World Championship team from USA Cycling's new women's development program. Schneider finished second overall at the UCI 1.2 La Picto-Charentaise in France in late August and a week later placed sixth out of 150 starters at the 1.1 MerXem Classic in Belgium. A week later he placed 6th out of 150 starters at the 1.1 MerXem Classic in Belgium.

"The U.S. is bringing a team that can win gold. My mission at this year's World Championships is to be the best teammate I can be. It will give me confidence and motivation for the last few weeks of training for the World Championships."

"I'm looking forward to the World Championships.

Two recent road races in Europe, each just under 120 kilometers long, were held in the United States. The U.S. team will look to World Tour riders Kristen Faulkner (Team Bike Exchange-Jayco) and Leah Thomas (Trek-Segafredo), who also compete in TTs, and Veronica Eworth (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB) for road race Leadership Expectations.

Schneider shines in sprints, especially in criterium races. In her second season with L39ION in Los Angeles, she won three of the seven American Criterium Cup events and finished on the podium two other times. She also helped teammate Kendall Ryan repeat as U.S. Pro Criterium champion, finishing second in the process.

"I signed with L39ION in Los Angeles to leave the World Tour after 2020 and race in the US. For that reason, gaining experience at the World Championships now will be very valuable," Schneider said. Schneider returned to racing domestically after three years of racing with Boels Dolmans Cycling.

"I've been racing BMX since I was four years old and have been racing almost my entire life, but I feel like this is just the beginning of the rest of my career, being selected to represent me at the World Championships."

After winning junior national titles in road and cyclocross disciplines in his early teens, Schneider made headlines in 2016, when he was 18, when he won a double as junior national road race and criterium champion. That same year, she won the silver medal in the junior women's road race at the World Championships in Doha.

In 2017, when she was 19 years old, Schneider earned a WorldTour contract with a stage win in the Thuringian Ladies Tour and a third-place finish in the Pan American Championships road race while riding for the US National Team.

"I would be lying if I said the six years since Doha have been easy, but everything I have learned has led me to where I am today and prepared me for the future. I am only 23 years old and I still have a lot of love for this sport that L39ION has helped me find over the past two years and I hope to be racing for another 10 years. I dream of one day being a world champion or an Olympian, and now I feel like that could actually happen."