Alexis Magner (Ryan) and Heidi Franz will anchor the Continental women's team Sinisca Cycling for the 2025 season.

Next year's season, the third for the U.S. team, will be without three riders who have achieved the majority of the team's successes, including multi-event veteran Lauren Stephens, who won the Pan American Road Race and US Gravel Championships in 2024. In addition, Ireland's Fiona Mangan and Canada's Mara Roldan will move to the dsm-firmeninch PostNL.

The team stated in a press release that its focus next season will be to develop North American talent on the global racing calendar, and Magner and Frantz will not only bring immediate impact to the results list, but will also serve as mentors for the new talent.

“I am very excited to start a new chapter in my career by joining Sinisca as team leader and captain. This team is full of talent and I want to play a big part in bringing that talent to the pinnacle of women's cycling,” Magner said in a team statement.

“During my time as a professional racer, I have had some of the best riders in women's cycling history as mentors. My main goal in this new chapter is to pass on my knowledge of the sport to the next generation.”

Magner has been one of the winningest women on the U.S. criterium circuit for the past three seasons while racing at L39ION in Los Angeles; in 2024 alone, the 30-year-old has won consecutive races at the Salt Lake Criterium in Provo and the Athens Twilight Criterium She finished in the top 10 in 21 of the 27 races, including.

Now in her 12th season as a professional, Magner also spent six seasons with Canyon-SRAM. Her best seasons with the German team included podium finishes at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Ronde van Drenthe, and Giro d'Italia Women while Tour Cycliste Féminin de l'Ardèche and Drentse Acht van It was in 2018 that he won a stage in Westerveld.

Franz also has extensive experience in international racing, with five teams including Rally Cycling and DNA Pro Cycling, where he has had success as an all-rounder in hilly terrain: in 2022, he finished second in GC at the Jo Martin stage race, and the following year he won the Ser Latigit Festival Elsie Jacobs, and a top 10 finish in the Tour de Gatineau.

“I am confident that this is a team I can contribute to and continue to enjoy and grow with. I am still coming into my own as a rider and I am really grateful to have the support of this team and to be able to further strengthen my skills,” Franz said of his move.

During this season as a Lifeplus Wahoo rider, Franz finished 5th in a stage at the Women's Tour Down Under, 2nd at the Rás na mBan in Ireland, 1st at the Nordic Gravel Series Jyvaskyla, and 17th overall at the UCI Gravel World Championships. He finished 17th overall.

Among his other new teammates are Irish U23 road national champion Caoimh O'Brien, 24-year-old Belgian Phoebe Poppe, and the Canadian pairing of Caitlin Lauwerda and Katja Verkerk.

Lauwerda, a 24-year-old who spent three seasons with DNA Pro Cycling, won a stage at the 2023 Vuelta a Colombia Femenina; Verkerk, who turns 21 in December, won the 2024 Canadian Gravel Championships and has won the Canadian Criterium Championships and a top-five finish at the Gastown Grand Prix.

The team returns five American riders, Kayla Davis, Tess Edwards, Allison Murghal, Chloe Patrick, and Claire Windsor. Patrick is the U23 U.S. Criterium Champion and has won six Elite and U23 U.S. Track Championships in 2024.