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| 2012 Team Roster 
| Tony Adair
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| Ellis Caldwell
Ellis is new to cycling and this is his first year road racing. He got his start racing with Kevin Freeman in the Beat the Freak Cyclocross series. Currently, he lives with his lovely wife in Murfreesboro. They are expecting their first child in late October. Ellis works for a medical supply company in Franklin. He has proven his commitment to racing and the team by racing nearly every chance he gets this year.
|  | Clarke Clingenpeel
Clarke is 40 years old and father of two (Natalie 6, Taylor 4). He is married to Erika of 8 years. Clarke started riding mountain bikes in 1990 as a way to get to college classes. He graduated in 1991 from North Carolina State, with a BS in electrical engineering. He also started MTB racing in 1993, started road riding in 1995, and started road racing in 2000, with some occasional cyclocross racing. Clarke is currently working in sales for Siemens, and covers the state of TN. He is an obsessive compulsive, and drinks entirely too much coffee. At 125lbs he is a weight wennie, a watt wennie, and a stiffness wennie. --You can check out Clarke's blog at the tab at the top of the page.
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| Chris begins his 3rd year with the team racing in the Masters 50+ class. 2009 was a strong year for Chris. He claimed the TN State Road Race Championship jersey as well as the Gold medal in his class of the TN State Time Trial Championship. He also raced Cyclocross for the first time in 2009, finishing 3rd overall in the 45+ TBRA points competion. Chris and his wife of 23 years, Marcia, live in Spring Hill along with their three children Bridget (20), Matt (19), and Brian (17) and Bongo the Great Dane. The Daffin’s are native Texans and Chris displays his Texas pride on his socks while riding. Riding for about 12 years now, Chris decided to try racing 5 years ago while living in Memphis. Chris has enjoyed 26 sucessful years working for Allstate Insurance. |  | Jeff Davis
Originally from Mississippi, Jeff moved to Nashville around 4 years ago for a job transfer. He went to The University of Southern Mississippi where he got his undergraduate and masters degree in accounting. Jeff is a CPA and currently works in the Treasury Office at Vanderbilt University. He has been riding a bike for a couple of years, and his first year racing was last year. I won the Cat 5 Nashville Cyclist crit series in 2010. This year he hopes to develop as a racer and learn as much as possible from his teammates. His wife, Lori, also works in the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. They live in the Green Hills area and don't have any children or pets (just a few plants). |  | Thad DeHart
Thad lives in Spring Hill, TN with his wife DeAnna. He spends his free time cleaning his shotgun to keep the boys away from his daughter Carrie (9) and exploring his new found “super powers” with his son Thomas (7). Thad is a graduate of the University of Alabama and is currently a Business Development Manager at SVMIC. He has enjoyed 14 successful years as an employee of the company. At 40 years of age Thad started riding a bike later in his life. After competing in triathlons in ’99 and 2000 he discovered he was horrible at swimming and running, so he solely concentrated on cycling. He finally bit the bullet and started road racing in 2005. With a little luck in only his third race he won the 2005 Cat5 Tennessee State RR Championship. In 2010 he collected his second state medal grabbing a Bronze in the Masters 30+ State TT Championship. Master's Racing with the SVMIC Cycling Team has brought back the passion to compete. |  | Paul Dorsa
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|  | Tom Duncan
Tom grew up in Texarkana, AR and attended Hendrix College in Conway, AR, where he graduated with a BA in Philosophy in 1989. He met his wife, Sonya, shortly after college and were married in 1991. Their two children are Jeffrey,11, and Catherine 7. They live in Lebanon, and Sonya works as a teacher for Wilson County Schools.
As a kid, Tom's bicycle was a major form of transportation. As an adult, he rode some in college, but allowed my career to get in the way of it in my 20's and 30's. Tom started riding regularly as an adult again in 2005, which started due to a desire to be in better shape, and have been on the bike since. In 2009, he decided that he wanted to try racing in 2010, so he joined the Biker's Choice team out of Hendersonville. He really enjoyed the 2010 season, made a lot of new friends, and decided that he would race as much as possible in the years ahead. Tom is very excited to be on SVMIC and look forward to contributing to the team in any way he can. |  | Todd Huber
Todd lives in Nashville with his wife and their two nutso boys. He is a physician specializing in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and maintains a busy practice in Franklin, TN with Vanderbilt University. Todd moved several times growing up as part of an Air Force family. He finally settling in Columbus, Georgia long enough for him to call it home. Todd went on to Emory University for his undergraduate degrees followed by Medical School at Vanderbilt and finishing his formal education with a 5 year residency in St. Louis. Todd and his family are happy to call Tennessee home. Todd first started riding a bike competitively his freshman year in high school, competing in the Fort Benning Biathlon as part of a 2 man relay. He crossed the line next to last on his K-mart bought Murray mountain bike, but the seed was planted and he raced all through high school. Unfortunately, he put the bike aside for the next 13 years of education. Todd resumed riding in 2004, has been racing his bike since then and is currently a Cat 3. |  | Jay Levy
Jay races Masters 40+. He has been road racing for 20+ years both in Tennessee and Texas. Watching the Seven-Eleven cycling team compete in the 1984 Tour of Texas sparked an interest in cycling that has never waned. While in college he was president of the University of Texas Cycling Team. Hook em' Horns! Jay also seizes any opportunity to combine his passion for cycling with his love of photography. So, if you don't see him on the bike racing, look for him on the side of a road or on the back of a moto with camera in hand. Some of Jay's photo galleries, including the 2007 Edgar Soto Memorial Stage Race can be seen at www.jaylevyphotography.com. During the day he works as an Information Technology Executive at HCA in Nashville, TN. Jay lives in Brentwood, TN with his wife and two daughters. |  | John Maines
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|  | Kathy Mead
Kathy Mead is entering her second season of bike racing, although it's her first season on a TEAM! Kathy has been active her entire life -- beginning as a gymnast, sprinter, outfielder, and cheerleader from Georgia to a Vanderbilt Rugby player and marathon finisher. Now, she sets her sights on cycling and triathlons. She enjoys the fast pace of criterium and cyclocross racing and hopes to improve her road racing and time trialing skills this year. She is excited to be a member of SVMIC's dynamic cycling team! After graduating from Vanderbilt, Kathy earned a Master's Degree in Exercise Science from Middle Tenn State University. She currently works as a Health Coach in hopes of motivating others to be more active and create a healthier lifestyle. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading, baking, dancing the Salsa, and, oh yes, WINNING! | 
| Andy Norris
Andy is originally from Knoxville but has called Nashville his home since he graduated from Middle Tennessee State University back in ‘86. He resides in Franklin with his wife Jan and their two in-house companions, Max and Abby. Andy owns and runs Andy Norris Design, an independent graphic design studio that specializes in art direction and concept development. While he enjoys designing music packaging, he proudly admits that he is the ONLY person in Nashville not currently pursuing a singing career! Andy loves combining his two passions cycling and design… look for his race posters on andynorrisdesign.com. Andy is looking to get back in the swing of things after finding a new spark in Cyclocross. He hopes to contribute to the Masters Team this year.
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Jessica Owings
Jessica Owings is a misplaced Midwesterner having relocated to Nashville in the spring of 2010. Jes grew up riding horses but eventually figured out that a bicycle is much easier to house within city limits. She fell in love with cycling and has ventured out on several self-supported bike tours. The most memorable tour to date was in February of 2009 when she rode with friends over 900 unsupported miles down the Baja Peninsula in Mexico. Jes began racing bicycles in the summer after moving to Nashville, and continues racing road and cyclocross as often as possible. Mostly, Jes is the Director of Galleries and Exhibitions at Belmont University, where she also teaches printmaking, but spends a good while dreaming and scheming artistic trouble in the studio at Plate Tone Printshop or mucking about as a lackadaisical gardener. Generally her hands are stained with ink, soil, or bike grease.
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| Kurt Page
Kurt raced BMX in the 80s as a sponsored rider – until he turned 14 and ended up 6’6” and 240lbs and football took over. He has participated in competitive sports his entire life, playing collegiate football for Southern Illinois University, national level rugby for the USFK in Korea, and placing third in the U.S. Grappling Championships 2008. Using cycling as a way to stay in shape his entire life, in 2010 he decided to start racing and participated in over 30 events, winning a State Championship in mountain biking. Kurt works for GE Healthcare as a National Account Executive and his wife Deirdre, sons Liam and Gavin, and daughter Meredith live in Murfreesboro, TN. He plans to race two full seasons (road and cyclocross) for the team in 2011, as well as participate in several endurance mountain bike events. Kurt’s goal in 2011 is to help the team win races as well as to finish both the Cohutta 100 and Leadville 100 in less than 12 hours.
|  | Mike Poole
Mike, age 35, is originally from Newton, MS, a small town with 1 red light (that is usually blinking red). He and Tara, his wife of 13 years, moved to Nashville in 2006 from Gulfport, MS, after Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast. They now call East Nashville home. It was here that Mike purchased his first road bike and began riding with a local club. Mike decided to go competitive with his bike in 2010. His first race was the inaugural SVMIC Hell of the South road race where he finished second. He followed that up with a third place finish in his first Crit race at the Sunny King Crit Series in Anniston, AL, and then another second place finish at the Sumner County Classic. After that, he moved up to Cat 4 and had several top 10 and podium finishes throughout the season, won the NashvilleCyclist.com Nashville Crit series at a Cat 4, and finished eighth in the TBRA point series for Cat 4. He moved up to Cat 3 at the end of the year.
Mike is really looking forward to the 2011 season with his new team and can’t wait to learn from his talented and experienced teammates. His goal for this season is to do everything he can to help his teammates finish each race atop the podium…and hopes to find himself up there as well! | 
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|  | Katie Ryan
Katie lives with the man in her life, Brian, in their small ranch in Fortland Park, East Nashville. She took up cycling in the fall of 2009, when arthritic knees forced her to give up running, a sport she'd enjoyed for nearly a decade. She quickly fell in love with the bike, and decided to try her hand at racing last summer after meeting Jes at the Nashville Cyclist Crit series. Though only able to squeeze in a few races before the end of the season, she ended up taking second overall in the 2010 Oak Ridge Omnium for category 4 women, and won the 2010 River Gorge women's road race. Katie spends most of her time off the bike in the lab, working on her PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology as part of Vanderbilt's MD/PhD program. She looks forward to working with the rest of the women's team to make their presence known in Nashville and beyond. | | No Picture Available | Sandra Talvera
| No Picture Available | |  | Olga Weeks
Lives in suburb of Murfreesboro with her husband James and a teenage daughter Svitlana. Olga was born and raised in Ukraine where she started road racing at the age of 13 and track (velodrome) racing at the age of 17. She graduated from National University of Sports, Kiev, Ukraine with a degree in sports science and physical rehabilitation. When she moved to United States, Olga went back to school (Belmont University, School of Physical Therapy), bought an entry level bike and started racing almost immediately. Olga is a Doctor of Physical Therapy working for Health4Life Physical Therapy, enjoying her life in United States, competing as Category 3 road/Category 2 track despite the fact that the closest velodrome is in Atlanta, Ga. Her other interests and hobbies include riding a motorcycle, CrossFit, reading, coaching, sometimes even cooking. |
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