Former Pan-American highway champion Skylar Schneider returns to L39ION of Los Angeles for a give attention to US home racing in 2026, with „hearth in her eyes and unfinished enterprise on her thoughts“ in accordance with an announcement by the workforce.
The 27-year-old was one of many authentic members of L39ION of Los Angeles when the co-ed workforce took flight with a give attention to US one-day races in 2021. She had three prolific seasons with L39ION and one with Miami Blazers, scoring greater than 90 podiums throughout criteriums and highway races. Final yr she raced on a one-year contract on the Girls’s WorldTour with SD Worx-Protime earlier than electing to return dwelling.
„Skylar Schneider comes again to the satisfaction with hearth in her eyes and unfinished enterprise on her thoughts! She didn’t come again to settle in. She got here again to take over. The queen has returned,“ was the announcement made late Wednesday by L39ION, owned and operated by brothers Justin and Cory Williams of Williams Racing Improvement.
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The ladies’s workforce will compete as a US home elite squad in 2026, with Holly Breck, Samantha Schneider, Joyce Monton, and Alexandrine Obrand becoming a member of Skylar Schneider. Breck is the one returning rider from final yr’s squad, ending the season with fourth at Bucks County Basic and three high 10s within the four-day Gateway Cup.
Sisters Skylar and Samantha Schneider final raced collectively two years in the past for the US-based Miami Blazers, a workforce which Williams Racing Improvement folded after the 2025 season. In 2024, Skyler collected 28 podiums, which included seven victories and the dash and particular person titles within the American Criterium Cup. Nevertheless, that yr she completed fourth at USPro Criterium, and a return to a US workforce permits her to give attention to the hunt for the elusive nationwide criterium crown.
Skylar moved final yr to Europe to race with SD Worx-Protime, her second profession stint on the Girls’s WorldTour. She competed in a swathe of spring Classics in Belgium, the Tour of Britain, and the Baloise Girls Tour, together with her high consequence a silver medal on the Pan-American Street Championships within the highway race, an occasion she received in 2023.
„I completely love criterium racing,“ Skylar Schneider advised Cyclingnews earlier than becoming a member of SD Worx.
Samantha Scheider additionally returns to L39ION after two seasons with the Blazers, the place she took second place on the Tour of Somerville in 2024 and took a part of 2025 off to present beginning to her second little one. The duo have continued to work in tandem off the race course as co-owners of a bakery, The Bread Pedalers, of their hometown of West Allis, Wisconsin.
Former L39ION teammates will now be foes in 2026, with three-time USPro criterium champion Kendall Ryan now racing for Caldera Medical x Aurea Racing and 2025 USPro criterium runner-up Alexis Magner transferring to EF Training-Oatly.
The lads’s L39ION lineup can be led by Justin and Cory Williams and Tyler Williams (no relation), the trio again collectively after Cory and Tyler spent the final two seasons with the Golden State Blazers. The lads’s workforce will compete on the UCI Continental standing, the place they began within the first three seasons from 2021-2023.
L39ION of Los Angeles 2026 girls’s roster
Holly Breck (USA)Joyce Monton (PHI)Alexandrine Obrand (CAN)Samantha Schneider (USA)Skylar Schneider (USA)
