Human Powered Health has added Scott McGill and Corey Greenberg to complete the 2023 men's roster.
McGill will be a member of Wildlife Generation in 2022 and won a bronze medal at the US Pro Criterium Championships. At the UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong, he was selected to represent Team USA and ran away with 227 km.
"I am very excited to finally join Human Powered Health. It's a team I've wanted to be a part of for a long time," the 24-year-old from Mayland said in a team press release.
"It was a little later than I wanted, but I was able to stick around and earn my contract. I've stayed motivated as long as I could over the last few years. Winning in Europe is a whole different ballgame and it's a great relief to know that everything is going well."
McGill, who recently finished fourth in the U.S. elite men's Pan American cyclocross championships, has signed a two-year contract as part of HPH's road team.
Greenberg has signed a one-year contract and moved from the German continental team Downer-Ackon to the pro team. The California native will turn 35 in January and will add strength to the team in time trials and sprints. He will also compete in some gravel events.
"As a rider and as someone living with IBD (inflammatory bowel disease), this is a really big dream come true. As a young rider, I vividly remember my first race as a U23 rider alongside the then Optum team, and I knew I wanted to ride for them one day. Greenberg wrote on his Instagram.
"I was diagnosed with IBD during my U23 career and thought my dream of reaching this level and the opportunity to run for this team was next to impossible. - Now I am finally able to realize that dream, which seemed impossible when I was lying in a hospital bed."
Greenberg, a former winner at Tulsa Tough, suffers from the autoimmune disease ulcerative colitis, which forced him to be hospitalized in 2011. He manages the disease through nutrition and medication and founded the Ride4IBD movement to help patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
"It's my dream," Greenberg added, "to inspire the next person who may one day get on Human Powered Health, who is living with a chronic disease and may not think it is attainable or even possible.
The North American duo will join 20 other riders in the New Year, including Gijs Van Hoecke of the AG2R Citroën team in September, Barnabás Peák of Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux, Astana- in 2021 Premier Tech in 2021, and Canadian Benjamin Perry, who raced for British Continental team WiV SunGod in 2022, will be among the seven new riders on the World Tour.
The main departures from the team are the two most recent US Pro Road national champions, Joey Roskov from 2021 and Kyle Murphy from 2022. Rothkopf will move to Q36.5 with Nicholas Zukofsky, while Murphy will move to L39LION in Los Angeles with teammate Robin Carpenter.
Human Powered Health has been owned and operated by Minnesota-based Circuit Sports since 2007, which renamed the team Human Powered Health last winter.
The men's team was upgraded from Continental status in 2018, while the women's team moved to the top level as a Women's World Tour team in 2022. With this move, Human Powered Health became the first coed team to send women to the top level before men.
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