Andrea Dvorak

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretsky

D.O.B.: Oct. 9, 1980
Location: Washington, D.C.
Current City: Crozet, VA
Height: 5’5
Specialty: All-round
Previous sports: Triathlon, swimming
Nickname: Dre
Years racing: 7

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Andrea is a veteran professional cyclist who has raced for the US National Team, Colavita Professional Team, Exergy Twenty12 and Tibco to the Top over her career. Before beginning her professional career, Andrea won the Collegiate National Championships in Triathlon and was a multiple-time medalist in the US Collegiate Cycling National Championships. She also ran cross country at the University of Virginia, where she earned a BA in Biology and Spanish and a JD at the University of Virginia School of Law. She has been a member of the Virginia Bar since 2006.

During the off-season and when she is home, Andrea is actively involved in developing and promoting junior development cycling programs in Virginia. With her husband, she helped create a top-level, one-of-a-kind cycling program at the Miller School of Albemarle. Students come from around the world to the Miller School, a boarding school, where cycling is a varsity sport. Additionally, she helps run two interscholastic middle school and high school cycling leagues, the Virginia High School Cycling League in conjunction with the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) in the fall and the Virginia High School Mountain Bike Series in the spring.

Career Highlights

1st place, La Route de France, Stage 8, 2012
2nd place, USA National Championship Road Race, 2011
QOM Winner: Redlands Bicycle Classic, SRAM Tour of the Gila, Cascade Cycling Classic, 2011
2012 Olympic Long Team Member
1st place, Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, Stage 3, 2009
6th place, Giro d’Italia Femminile, Stage 2

2014

5th place, Joe Martin Stage Race, Stage 1
6th place, Redlands Bicycle Classic, Stage 1
7th place, Redlands Bicycle Classic, GC
8th place, Cascade Cycling Classic, Stage 1

2013

4th place, Merco Cycling Classic, Stage 1
4th place, Cascade Cycling Classic, Stage 1
5th place, SRAM Tour of the Gila, Stage 1
6th place, Cascade Cycling Classic, GC
6th place, SRAM Tour of the Gila, GC
8th place, USA National Championships Road Race
Overall Team Victory at the Giro d’Italia Femminile
USA World Championships Team Member, Florence, Italy

2012

2nd place, Cascade Cycling Classic, Stage 4
3rd place, Cascade Cycling Classic, Stage 1
7th place, Cascade Cycling Classic, GC
7th place, Redlands Bicycle Classic, GC
9th place, Tour of the Gila, GC
28th place, Tour of Flanders
USA World Championships Team Member, Cauberg, Netherlands

What inspired you to become a bike racer?
The UVA Cycling team, its members and its coach, Ruth Stornetta, all helped me develop into the bike racer I am today. They taught me everything – from shifting gears, changing tires, and how to train.

Who is an inspiration to you in your life, both on and off the bike?
My parents. Both of my parents came to the United States with nothing – no English, no family, no money, just a desire to succeed.

If you weren’t bike racing, you would be...?
A lawyer without a bike.

Favorite meal when training?
Coffee. Breakfast. Then more coffee.

The best thing about being a bike racer is?
Traveling and experiencing different cultures all over the world.

Favorite place you’ve raced your bike and why?
My favorite place that I raced was in Jamaica as part of the Tour of Jamaica, a men’s, 5-day stage race. I was a member of the only women’s team that participated. We raced over the entire island and I was able to see and experience places beyond the gates of the all-inclusive resorts.

Favorite cross training or off season activity?
Mountain biking, running and swimming

Best tip for a new bike racer
Bike racing can be a hard sport to break into; don’t be intimidated by how others act or how their cycling outfits are perfectly coordinated. Learn to laugh at your mistakes and learn from them.

Favorite things to do off the bike:

1. Promoting interscholastic mountain bike racing
2. Hanging out with my friends, family and my dog, Ragnar
3. Traveling
4. Swimming
5. Wearing my carhartts and watching Peter work on the yard

Top 10 warmup/pre-race songs on your iPod:

1. Riptide, Vance Joy
2. I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’, Scissor Sisters
3. Uprising, Muse
4. Can’t Hold Us, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
5. Sail, Awolnation
6. Bailando (Spanish Version), Enrique Iglesias
7. What is Love, Haddaway
8. Snow (Hey Oh), Red Hot Chili Peppers
9. Sweet Child O’ Mine, Guns N’ Roses
10. 300 Violin Orchestra, Jorge Quintero

TWENTY16 has an emphasis on education with the initiation of our Junior Scholarship program in 2015.

Beyond the fact that a college education is very important, college is the first time for many students to become independent members of a community. Students learn the importance of time management, social etiquette, how to stand out, how to speak up, etc. Skills that acquired in college go well beyond any classroom or boardroom. As a member of a cycling team, the social skills and discipline that you learned and honed in college are as important here as anywhere else.

Many colleges also have great cycling programs. Some colleges even offer scholarships. The racing and camaraderie that I experienced as a member of my collegiate cycling team are some of my fondest memories of my college years.