The U.S.-based women's elite racing team, the Fount Cycling Guild, has announced that veteran sprinter Andrea Sill will join its new roster of eight riders for 2025. The team will enter its fifth season with 15 riders.

Shea is a member of the Miami Knights, which finished second overall in the elite women's race at the 2023 American Criterium Cup Series. She had mixed guest participation in races this past season as the Knights team and two other teams owned by the National Cycling League abruptly closed in April. With Texas Roadhouse Cycling, she finished sixth in the Athens Twilight Criterium, and with Goldman Sachs ETFs, she finished in the top 10 in the Chicago Grit Race Series.

“Andrea Schill was the obvious choice. In addition to her great personality, she brings leadership, experience, and a brave and spirited type of racing to the team and brings power and leadership,” Jennifer Wheeler, co-owner and roster member of the team told Cycling News.

“When she came to camp, it was as if she had already been on the team all along. She fit in seamlessly and we can't wait to welcome her back along with the other strong returning riders.”

Wheeler is proud that the Women's Elite Team, which operates as a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to developing talent, provides coaching, equipment, race entry fees, travel expenses, and other support to team members. The most recent Talent Camp included 21 participants from 50 American riders.

“I think our biggest differentiator as a women's pro team is that we put a lot of resources into discovering talent outside of pro cycling in other sports and giving opportunities to riders who have a lot of potential and not a lot of results, rather than trying to make teams out of riders who are already on the pro circuit. to give them a chance.

Dr. Saar, medical director at Indianapolis Rehabilitation Hospital in Carmel, Indiana, attended a recent talent camp at the team's new headquarters in Kentucky. She was an easy pick for Wheeler, who added Allison Edgar (20), Brooklyn Radin (18), Katherine Van Dorn (34), and former motocross player Lauren Baker Smith (36) from the talent camp.

“I'm joining a very strong Fount Cycling team. Their passion, dedication, and work ethic have already had an impact on me. I hope to accomplish great things with this wrecking crew next season. You may see this team in the crit next year,” Sill posted on Instagram.

Belgian Eleanor Weissman has moved on from Baloise-WB Ladies after finishing third in GC at the Tour of the Gila last year as a guest rider for Fount. Dani Audino is a U.S. Marine off-bike and competes in the Armed Forces Triathlon Championship. She moved to the Category 2 level of road biking a year ago. Also joining the roster is 16-year-old Vera Kurtil, who has cyclocross experience from junior mountain biking.

Returning to the roster are American riders: Alia Shafi, who was second in the ITT stage and fifth overall at last year's Tour of the Gila; Elexi Snover, 32nd in the Big Sugar Gravel; Tour of the Gila stage winner Elizabeth Dixon, Andre Boutin, Marji Minagawa, and Wheeler.

Athletes will compete in several disciplines in 2025, and the U.S. road campaign will begin with the Redlands Bicycle Classic in California in April, including the Unbound Gravel in Kansas at the end of May, where several riders will return to Gravel, including the Unbound Gravel in Kansas at the end of May.