Alumni

Donations

Alumni are welcome to make small donations online, your support of the team is much appreciated. The team receives most of its funding through SAFC, but donating to the team allows us to procure items that are difficult to get through the SAFC system (such as unforeseen racing equipment).

If you would like to make a donation, please go here:
Cornell Alumni Donations
Choose "Student and Academic Services" from the first pull down menu and enter "Fund #426926, Cycling Club," on the "other gift designation" line.



Name: Dan Walsh

Years in Club: 2006-2009

Disciplines: Road

Current involvement with biking: Road Biking

Favorite place to ride in Ithaca: 100 mile loop around Lake Cayuga

Best Memory/Advice/Lesson learned in the club: Grant's Tomb at Columbia.  Biking the 100 miles around Lake Cayuga with other friends on rare sunny summer days in Ithaca.  Have fun biking and always back up even when you get knocked down.

What are you up to now: Orthopaedic Research for UC Davis Medical School in Sacramento, CA

Contact Info: djw65@cornell.edu

Name: Ben Cheetham

Years in Club: 2006-2009

Disciplines: Road Racing

Current involvement with biking: Mostly a weekend warrior, ride whenever I get a chance.

Favorite place to ride in Ithaca: Legge Hill/Honeypot loop down in Speedsville

Best Memory/Advice/Lesson learned in the club: Always tell your team mates where you're going before you let the EMTs put you in an ambulance!

What are you up to now: Living on the beach in Malibu, CA, working in business development for a startup software company called Rapid7 (11 hour days so i don't get to bike much during the week).  The riding around here is epic though, several 2000 foot climbs in the mountains behind my house.  Lots of pro teams train in Malibu in the winter.

Contact Info: 22159 Pacific Coast Highway #1, Malibu CA 90265     Cell:  607-279-7872

Name:  Charles Krohn

Years in Club: 2003-2007

Disciplines: Road, Mountain

Current involvement with biking:
None rightnow, but going to pick it up again when I move.

Favorite place to ride in Ithaca:
Starting from campus, head down College Ave, to Mitchell, hitting State Street.  Hang a left on Ferris and take the footbridge over Six Mile Creek.  Go straight across to Columbia Street, head up the hill, then make a left on Hudson Street and continue uphill until it becomes Coddington.  Bear right onto Troy Rd., make another route onto King Rd and continue uphill.  Follow King over the ridge, across 96B, and keep going even after it curves to the left past Buttermilk Falls.  Make a right onto Jersey Hill Road, and continue down the hill.  It becomes Blakeslee Rd and gets very steep.  Take this all the way down to 13.  Make a right to head back towards town on 13.  After a mile or two, turn left onto route 327.  Follow this up the hill.  Near the end of Robert Treman State Park you'll get to Van Dorn Rd, a dirt road to your right.  Follow the road until you get to Bostwick, and make a left.  Make a right on Applegate, and take this to Rt. 79 where you make a right.  Follow 79 back to town and campus.  It's something like 28 miles... definitely my favorite ride!  Tons of climbing.

 

Best Memory/Advice/Lesson learned in the club: The club got me into riding, permanently.  Even though I'm not riding at the moment, it will always be something I enjoy.  It's a lifelong activity.


What are you up to now:
 I worked at JPMorgan for about two and a half years, but recently quit to start a trading software company.  We will be based in Boston


Contact Info:
ctkrohn@gmail.com

Name:  Colin Eichinger

Years in Club: 2007-2008

Disciplines: Mountain: XC and Downhill

Current involvement with biking: Still ride XC and DH on team Chainsmoke (www.chainsmokeracing.net)

Favorite place to ride in Ithaca: Shinny/Campus rides

Best Memory/Advice/Lesson learned in the club: Equipment doesn't make you a good rider. Vanya placed 3rd(?) in a Men's A XC race on a toys-r-us bike while wearing Tevas.

What are you up to now: Graduate student in the Bioengineering department of the University of Utah

Contact Info: colin.eichinger@utah.edu  Feel free to hit me up if you need riding advice or a place to stay in Utah!

Name: Aaron Nathan

Years in Club: 2003-2009

Disciplines: Mountain and Road

Current involvement with biking: Ride 26 miles to work and as much as I can on weekends

Best Memory/Advice/Lesson learned in the club: Go to races despite all the problem sets and prelims you have to do.  Mountain races especially were the most fun I had at Cornell.

What are you up to now: Coherent Navigation, San Fransico, CA