American Carmen Small is moving from the director's seat at Team Virtue to Serratigit-WNT Pro Cycling for 2020.The German-registered team, which started as Team WNT in 2016, recently announced that Small will work next season as Dirk Baldinger announced that he will work as assistant director alongside.

After retiring from racing in 2017, Small worked as team director for Team Virtu, but the Bjarne Riis-owned program announced it will not return next year.

"I had the option to go to different teams for the 2020 season," Small said in a statement released by Serratigit-WNT, "but I wanted to choose the team that was right for me." I met Dirk as sport director in 2015 when I was still racing and loved working with him as an athlete. We are in constant contact and he has asked me several times if I would like to work with him one day."

In Small's own racing career, he was a two-time world champion in the team time trial and finished third in the individual time trial at the 2013 World Championships. He also won stages in the Thuringian Lundfahrt and Lotto-Belisol Ladies Tour, and was on the podium in the Emakmen Vila.

As a coach, Small's teams won the Ronde van Vlaanderen, Ronde van Drenthe, Healthy Aging Tour, and Val Garda in Sweden.

"For the past two and a half years I have been thrown into the deep world of coaching," Small said. I've been thrown into the deep world of directing," Small said. It was very overwhelming at times, but at the same time it forced me to ask questions and seek help. I was able to gain different perspectives and discover many tools to help me manage my team. In many ways, I was very fortunate to have had that experience"

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She was attracted to the team structure of Serratizit-WNT.

"It's unique, and I don't think there is any other cycling team like it," Small said, "Then I met with the team manager, Claude Saint, and it was settled in my mind. As I watched the Serratigit Group and its operations, it was clear to me that he believes in creating a family feel and looking out for the company's employees. I want to be part of something bigger, and I want to be the company that leads the way in improving and changing women's cycling. So in the end it was an easy decision for me.

"I'm really looking forward to working with Dirk. He will be able to teach me more and I hope I can bring something to the team that will help him improve," Small said. I like to push the girls to give more to the team, their teammates, and themselves than they think they can." It gives the girls the confidence they lack, unites the team, and they are always working together to reach their big goals. Having said that, I know the team already does that, so it will be easy to incorporate that into the next season."