# EF Education–Tibco–SVB

EF Education–Tibco–SVB is a former women's professional cycling team based in the United States that competed in elite road bicycle racing. The team's main sponsors were EF Education First, TIBCO Software and Silicon Valley Bank. The owner was Linda Jackson, a former professional cyclist.

## Team history

Before its demise in 2023, Team EF Education–Tibco–SVB was the longest running women's professional cycling team in North America and traced its roots back to the Palo Alto Bicycles Women's (PABW) team. The team was created by Stanford MBA and investment banker, Linda Jackson. Jackson left investment banking in the early 90s to pursue her dream of becoming an Olympian. After becoming Canada's National Champion in 1995, Jackson was selected to represent Canada in the time trial and road race at the 1996 Atlanta Games. She went on to win the bronze medal at the 1996 World Championship Road Race in Lugano, Switzerland and accumulated numerous Canadian national championship titles in the road race and time trial. Cycling gave Jackson so much personally, that when she retired from the sport, she knew she wanted to help other women pursue their cycling aspirations.
Jackson became involved with PABW on a coaching basis in 2004, directed the team in 2005 and then added TIBCO as a sponsor in 2005 in order to help the team grow from a local racing team to a national-level team. Racing as PABW powered by TIBCO in 2006, the team finished the year ranked 36th overall in North America, up from 60th overall the year before. The following year, Jackson added Silicon Valley Bank as a sponsor. Jackson also created the Silicon Valley Cycling Foundation; a 501c3 formed to help develop promising female cyclists into top international competitors. The team soon rose to the top of the North American peloton and then began an expansion into International racing.
In 2008, the Team won both the National Road Race and Criterium (Brooke Miller) and was ranked 4th overall in North America. In 2009, the team became the top team in North America, won the National Road Race (Meredith Miller) and was named Team of the Year by VeloNews. In 2010, the team expanded to racing in Europe. In 2012, Team TIBCO won the National Road Race for the third time in five years with Megan Guarnier. In 2013 and 2014 the team repeated as the top team in North America. In 2015 Silicon Valley Bank became a co-title sponsor and the team added significantly more international events to its race calendar.
In 2017, the Team added four more National Championships to its tally with both Íngrid Drexel (Mexico) and Nicolle Bruderer (Guatemala) scoring double wins in the road race and time trial. 2018 started off with yet another national championship win; this time with new recruit Shannon Malseed winning the Australia National championship road race. In 2019, the team won the Australian national road race championship again, this time with new recruit Sarah Gigante. In 2020, Gigante won another national championship title, this time winning the Australian national time trial championships.
In 2022, the team joined the UCI Women's World Tour and became known as EF Education–Tibco–SVB. During that season, Emma Langley secured overall victory in the 2022 Joe Martin Stage Race after winning the stage 3 time trial, and the team successfully defending the jersey through the final day's criterium stage.
In 2023, Alison Jackson won Paris–Roubaix Femmes in a sprint finish after the break stayed away from the chasing pack – with the team describing the win as the biggest in their history.
At the end of 2023 both SVB and Tibco stopped their sponsorship. EF Education then announced a new women's team (EF Education–Cannondale). Veronica Ewers was announced as signing for the new EF Education–Cannondale team. In August 2023 it was officially confirmed that the team will disband at the end of 2023.

## Final team roster

    As of December 31, 2023.
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Lizzy Banks (GBR) | Lizzy Banks (GBR) | (1990-11-07) November 7, 1990 (age 33) |
| Letizia Borghesi (ITA) | Letizia Borghesi (ITA) | (1998-10-16) October 16, 1998 (age 25) |
| Krista Doebel-Hickok (USA) | Krista Doebel-Hickok (USA) | (1989-04-28) April 28, 1989 (age 35) |
| Veronica Ewers (USA) | Veronica Ewers (USA) | (1994-09-01) September 1, 1994 (age 30) |
| Kathrin Hammes (GER) | Kathrin Hammes (GER) | (1989-01-09) January 9, 1989 (age 35) |
| Clara Honsinger (USA) | Clara Honsinger (USA) | (1997-06-05) June 5, 1997 (age 27) |
| | Rider | Date of birth |
| Alison Jackson (CAN) | Alison Jackson (CAN) | (1988-12-14) December 14, 1988 (age 35) |
| Emma Langley (USA) | Emma Langley (USA) | (1995-11-23) November 23, 1995 (age 28) |
| Sara Poidevin (CAN) | Sara Poidevin (CAN) | (1996-05-07) May 7, 1996 (age 28) |
| Omer Shapira (ISR) | Omer Shapira (ISR) | (1994-09-09) September 9, 1994 (age 30) |
| Lauren Stephens (USA) | Lauren Stephens (USA) | (1986-12-28) December 28, 1986 (age 37) |
| Georgia Williams (NZL) | Georgia Williams (NZL) | (1993-08-25) August 25, 1993 (age 31) |

## Major wins
### 2008

    United States National Road Race Championships, Brooke Miller

### 2009

    United States National Road Race Championships, Meredith Miller

### 2010

    Sprints classification Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin, Brooke Miller
    Stage 4 Cascade Cycling Classic, Jo Kiesanowski
    Stage 2 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Ruth Corset
    Gloucester Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
    Providence Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
    Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
    Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Amanda Miller

### 2011

    Overall UCI Track World Cup (Beijing) Omnium, Tara Whitten
       Individual Pursuit, Tara Whitten
    Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, Megan Guarnier
    Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
    Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
    Los Angeles Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller
    Los Angeles Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller

### 2012

    Prologue The Exergy Tour, Tara Whitten

### 2013

    Overall Joe Martin Stage Race, Claudia Häusler
       Prologue, Claudia Häusler
    Stage 6 Nature Valley Grand Prix, Claudia Häusler
    Stage 1 Cascade Cycling Classic, Claudia Häusler
    Chrono Gatineau, Shelley Olds
    Madison Cup (Points race), Rushlee Buchanan
    Challenge International sur piste (Points race), Jasmin Glaesser
    Challenge International sur piste (Scratch), Rushlee Buchanan
    Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, Claudia Häusler
    Saint Louis Cyclo-cross, Amanda Miller

### 2014

    Tour of America's Dairyland – Giro d'Grafton, Samantha Schneider
    Overall Cascade Cycling Classic, Lauren Stephens
       Mountains classification, Andrea Dvorak
       Prologue, Stages 1 & 2, Lauren Stephens
       Stage 3, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok
       Stage 4, Jo Kiesanowski

### 2015

    Stage 4 (ITT) Tour Femenino de San Luis, Lauren Stephens
    Mountains classification Women's Tour of New Zealand, Joanne Hogan
    Overall Joe Martin Stage Race, Lauren Stephens
       Stage 1 (ITT), Lauren Stephens
    Stage 3 (ITT) Tour of the Gila, Lauren Stephens
    Points classification Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska, Lauren Stephens
       Stage 5, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok
    Stage 2 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lauren Stephens
    Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok

### 2016

    Stage 4 (ITT) Tour Femenino de San Luis, Lauren Stephens
    Stage 4 Joe Martin Stage Race, Lauren Stephens

### 2017

    Stage 2 Tour of the Gila, Lex Albrecht
    Chrono Gatineau, Lauren Stephens
    Winston-Salem Cycling Classic, Lauren Stephens
    Stage 2 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Lex Albrecht
    Stage 4 (ITT) Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Lauren Stephens
    Combativity award Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lex Albrecht

### 2018

    Stage 5 Redlands Bicycle Classic, Emma Grant
    Stage 3 Valley of the Sun Stage Race, Kendall Ryan
    Stage 1 Tour of California, Kendall Ryan
    Overall Armed Forces Association Cycling Classic, Kendall Ryan
       Clarendon Cup, Kendall Ryan

### 2019

    Stage 2 Joe Martin Stage Race, Shannon Malseed
    Overall Tour of the Gila, Brodie Chapman
       Stages 1 & 5, Brodie Chapman
    White Spot / Delta Road Race, Alison Jackson
    Stage 2 Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska, Brodie Chapman
    Stage 2 Women's Tour of Scotland, Alison Jackson

### 2020

    Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lauren Stephens
       Points classification, Lauren Stephens
       Stage 4, Kristen Faulkner

### 2021

    Stage 1 Ladies Tour of Norway, Kristen Faulkner
    Stages 2 & 3 (ITT) Joe Martin Stage Race, Emma Langley

### 2022

    Mountains classification Tour of the Gila Kristabel Doebel-Hickok
       Team classification
       Stages 1 & 3 (ITT), Kristabel Doebel-Hickok
    Stage 2 Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs, Veronica Ewers
    Overall 2022 Joe Martin Stage Race, Emma Langley
       Stage 3 (ITT), Emma Langley
    Clasica Femenina Navarra, Veronica Ewers

### 2023

    1st Paris–Roubaix Femmes, Alison Jackson

## National and world champions
### 2008

    USA Road Race, Brooke Miller

### 2009

    USA Road Race, Meredith Miller

### 2010

    Australia Road Race, Ruth Corset

### 2011

    World Track (Omnium), Tara Whitten
    Canada Track (Omnium), Tara Whitten

### 2012

    USA Road Race, Megan Guarnier
    USA Track (Pursuit), Lauren Hall

### 2015

    USA Criterium, Kendall Ryan

### 2017

    Mexican Road Race, Íngrid Drexel
    Mexican Time Trial, Íngrid Drexel
    Guatemala Time Trial, Nicolle Bruderer
    Guatemala Road Race, Nicolle Bruderer

### 2018

    Australia Road Race, Shannon Malseed
    Guatemala Time Trial, Nicolle Bruderer
    Mexican Time Trial, Íngrid Drexel
    Oceania Road Race, Sharlotte Lucas

### 2019

    Oceania Road Race, Sharlotte Lucas

### 2020

    Australia Time Trial, Sarah Gigante

### 2021

    Australia Time Trial, Sarah Gigante
    USA Road Race, Lauren Stephens
    USA Cyclo-cross, Clara Honsinger

### 2022

    Israel Time Trial, Omer Shapira
    Israel Road Race, Omer Shapira
    USA Road Race, Emma Langley

### 2023

    Canada Road Race, Alison Jackson