Andrew Strohmeyer (CXC Trek Bikes), Eric Brunner (Comp Edge Racing), Vida Lopez de San Roman (Bear National Team) and Katie Clouse (Steve Tilford Foundation Racing) headline a 21-rider roster for USA Cycling on the 2025 UCI Cyclocross World Championships, happening January 31-February 2 in Liévin, France.
Clouse would be the lone consultant for the US within the elite girls’s race, as 18-year-old Lopez de San Roman will compete within the girls’s under-23 division. Lopez de San Roman made historical past because the youngest elite girls’s nationwide champion when she eclipsed Clouse on the ultimate lap at Joe Creason Park in Louisville, Kentucky for the highest reward, her gamble paying off by not competing within the U23 division.
Last yr at Worlds, Lopez de San Roman completed sixth within the girls’s junior race, which was the best place earned by any US rider. She’ll be joined within the U23 division this time with 5 different riders – US U23 winner Katherine Sarkisov (CXD / Trek Bikes), CCB teammates Lizzy Gunsalus and Cassidy Hickey, Kaya Musgrave (Cervelo / OrangeLiving) and reigning Pan-Am U23 winner Lauren Zoerner (Comp Edge Racing).
Strohmeyer gained the elite males’s nationwide title only a month in the past, whereas Brunner, second at nationals, gained the elite males’s Pan-American title for a fourth consecutive yr in November. Rounding out a trio of riders within the elite class at Worlds is Scott Funston (Cervelo / OrangeLiving).
Henry Coote and Dylan Zakrajsek, each of Comp Edge Racing, will compete within the males’s U23 race, each making second appearances on the World Championships.
There are 5 riders on the boys’s junior squad headed to France, led by 17-year-old Garrett Beshore (Boulder Junior Cycling), who gained the junior males’s race on the Pan-American Championships. He will likely be joined by Dylan Haynes, additionally with Boulder Junior Cycling, Benjamin Bravman (Bear National Team), Ethan Brown (Midwest Devo) and Aidan Vollmuth (Finkraft Junior Cycling Team).
Lidia Cusack, who gained World Cup Dublin’s junior occasion and the US junior title in December, will compete in France with a trio of her CXD/Trek Bikes teammates – Alyssa Sarkisov, Lyllie Sonnemann and Ada Watson – for the ladies’s junior rainbow stripes .
