Corey Williams to Pledge Loyalty in 2024 and Move from L39ON in Los Angeles to Miami Blazers Corey Williams, 30, who has dominated criterium racing for over a decade, is the brother of Justin Williams, and the two co-founded L39ION in 2018 to promote diversity and inclusion while expanding opportunities to race professionally.

The two are behind Williams Racing Development, which founded the Miami Blazers in 2021 and created the Austin Aviators as a Texas-based coed team in 2023. After teaming up with his brother for five seasons at L39ION, Williams, the younger brother, admitted to the move on social media during the last week of December.

"It is with mixed emotions that I am leaving L39LION of Los Angeles next year. This journey has been nothing short of amazing," Williams wrote on social media.

"For my teammates, the last five years have been the best years of my career so far. Our dedication to making this sport more inclusive and a safe place to be ourselves has been inspiring to say the least and I cherish every race we have won together

"My role may have changed but my love for the Legion has not. Our goal at Williams Racing Development is to create exciting involvement and bring you the best entertainment possible. And we can't wait to open the show for you."

Corey Williams started the 2024 season with the Miami Blazers by finishing second in the Clem New Year's Day Cycling Classic in Belize on January 1.

Los Angeles-born Cory Williams now represents Belize in international competition, winning the national road race championship this summer and placing in the top 10 in the road race and ITT at the Caribbean Road Championships. He also won the road stage at the Redland Bicycle Classic and has 12 podium finishes in one-day races.

The Blazers are in their fourth year as an elite U.S. national team focused on criteriums and one-day events, and in 2023, the Blazers will be joined by two of their home country's individual time trial championship winners, Joshua Kelly of Barbados and Oscar Quiroz of Belize from their home country's individual time trial championship winners, Joshua Kelly of Barbados and Oscar Quiroz of Belize. Brandon Fihaly won the U.S. title in the elite men's amateur criterium championship.

The CCB p/b Levine Law Group elite women's cycling team, based near Boston, Massachusetts, will have nine riders in the 2024 Games, anchored by 20-year-old US national champions Betty Hasse and Lizzie Gansalas. The team's sponsor, the Levin Law Group of Mooresville, NC, will support the women's development team, now in its seventh year.

Hasse won the U23 women's time trial and Gansalas won the U23 cyclocross. An important departure for the team was college road national champion Natalie Quinn, who transferred to EF Education Cannondale.

"The true test of a development team is not measured by wins during the season, but by the success of our riders after they leave our program. This year in particular, we had three under-23 national champions in Natalie (Quinn), Betty (Hasse), and Lizzie (Gansalas). That means we are doing our job," said team sports director Lauren LeClair.

Newly registered is Ella Brenneman, who will turn 19 on January 10. She was the national women's junior criterium champion last season, winning silver in the junior individual time trial and silver in the cyclocross nationals behind Gunsalus in the U23 race. Sabrina Hayes was a member of the Fort Lewis College road team last season, and had nine top-10 finishes in criteriums during the Tour of America's Dairyland and Intelligencia Cup race weeks.

In addition to the Levine Law Group, other ongoing partners include Foundation Cycling, Friends & Family Dental of East Providence, Rhode Island, Pro Thirteen Coaching, and bicycle provider Cannondale.

CCB International Cycling Club is the longest established elite team in the United States, having started in New England in 1976 and now operating solely as a women's combined discipline race team. The team plans to add a European race block to its 2024 calendar, while the bulk of its schedule will remain a national mix of road, criterium, and gravel.

CCB p/b Levine Law Group roster for 2024: Gansalas, Hasse, Hayes, Brenneman, Kate Seiler, Kendall Chase, Catherine Rusch, Ella Grier, Cecile Lejeune.

The Atlanta Rise Cycling Club is the third coed team in the United States created by the National Cycling League, joining the Miami Knights and Denver Disruptors. The Atlanta Rise Cycling Club is the third coed team in the United States created by the National Cycling League, joining the Miami Knights and the Denver Disruptors.

As an elite team in the U.S., the new Atlanta Rise is eligible to earn team points in the American Criterium Cup series and qualify for team selection in the NCL race series. The team kit has yet to be announced, but the team colors will be red and black, reflecting the bold look of the host city's big professional sports teams: the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United, and Atlanta Hawks.

Local prospect Joshua Myers is a 21-year-old biology major at Georgia State University. Last year he was a member of the Metro Atlanta Cycling Club and won the Cat 4 men's division of the Spin the District Hapeville and the Cat 3/4 men's division of the Sunny King Criterium.

Another youngster from Georgia is Caleb Landgreve, a 20-year-old who spent three seasons with the U.S. DDP Elite Development Team and gained one-day race experience last summer in Belgium, winning the Grote Prijs Schuiferskapelle.

Veteran riders with Georgia ties include Atlanta native John Brock, Brock Mason of Macon, Lucas Strain of Eatonton, and Belgian Quentin Goossens, who earned a doctorate in engineering from Georgia Tech in Atlanta. There are. Clayton Travis joins from Velocious Sports, where he finished in the top 10 in the criterium 11 times last season. David Davenport, 21, was part of the Denver Disruptors' development team last year, finishing on the podium with seven podiums.

Elizabeth 'Izzy' Harden also transferred from the Denver Disruptors and has ties to Georgia as a junior at Piedmont College. Harden, who has dual U.S. and British citizenship, won a bronze medal at the 2019 US Junior Criterium Nationals and the overall junior women's title at the Gateway Cup. Ruth Allen, also British, lives in Atlanta and joined the team after a year with Goldman Sachs ETF's Racing.

Others on the team include Canadian Carla Lilly, criterium veteran Carly Cooper, who moved from the Amy D. Foundation, and Megan Cyberdon, who ran for Team Skyline the past two seasons.