Colleen brings over 20 years of experience riding and racing mountain bikes and cyclocross. She has competed in a range of cycling endurance events: cross country, time trial, hill climbs, 24 hour, gravel, stage, and cyclocross. She won a master’s national championship for mountain biking and has had numerous national podiums in both mountain biking and cyclocross. Colleen served on the Board for the NorCal Interscholastic Cycling League. She started coaching women’s mountain biking as the lead of the Bay Area Luna Chix Ambassador Team. She is a founding member and coach on the Galena Mountain Bike Team and is the Girls Ride Together (GRIT) Coordinator for the Northern Nevada League. She is a mom to two mountain bikers, Sam and Cole, and wife of Steve, her partner in the adventure of life. In her spare time, she runs a marketing consulting business.
Steve “Oz” Ouzounian has been riding and racing mountain bikes for over 30 years. He’s been an assistant coach to the Berkeley High team, a Director for the NorCal league, and assisted with NICA operations. Steve is now the Chairman of the NV NICA league Board of Directors and is a level 3 coach with the Galena team. Steve is the father of two mountain bikers, Sam and Cole,.and is married to a national mountain bike champion, Colleen Wanty. Steve has been Oracle’s Global Retail Consulting lead and a partner at Accenture before taking the past few years off to spend more time with family.