My name is Bryce and I race in the 6 intermediate class for Phantom Development.

I'm 11x and I race for Lithium Racing.

I'm 10X and I race for Hampton BMX.

My name is Parker Respass and I race in the 9x class. I am from Suffolk, Virginia, and Hampton BMX is my home track. I started racing in July 2013, right after I turned 7. I asked for money for my my birthday and bought a bike and have been racing ever since. I love to travel all over to race!

I first began racing BMX in 1978 at the age of 5 in on a track behind my fathers bike shop in Niagara Falls NY. I raced at a local and national level for 10 years before leaving the sport. In 2011 I returned to introduce my daughters to the sport I loved so much as a child and could not resist the temptation to get back on the track. I am now an Expert and Cruiser rider for Powers Bike Shop and recently raced at the 2014 UCI World Championships making it to the 1/8th semi. I am a USABMX Certified coach and the Track Operator for Richmond BMX where I dedicate countless hours to the sport I love so much.

At first, Brooke was completely against racing. Her parents only got her a bike so she wouldn’t feel left out when the family went to watch her brother race on their hometown BMX track in Tulare, Calif. Of course, she was only six at the time but, in a discipline where racers start as young as five, Brooke sized up the peer competition and told her parents that she wanted to try racing. Racing BMX in southern California is a bit like playing football in central Texas, the talent pool is deep and wide and the competition is fierce. The distinctions started piling up when Brooke was nine. She has consistently compiled top-3 titles in national age group rankings ever since. Her big break came in 2009 when, as a 16 year old, she scored two world titles and a national title. Brooke graduated from Mt. Whitney High School in 2011 and began to focus on BMX racing full time. While she has lived under her parents’ roof, she has benefited immensely from their sustained support. They have - according to Brooke - always pushed her to be at her very best. They have also pulled double duty as her coach, which sometimes isn’t easy when the going gets rough. As a teen, Brooke has learned that the price of racing at an elite level has cost her a bit of a social life but, rather than be adrift in the life of a normal teenager, she is a determined BMX racer and she credits her parents, in part, with being where she is today. Coming just a tad short on the UCi points scale, Brooke was chosen as the back-up rider for the 2012 U.S. Olympic team, and kept training and pushing her two friends and Olympic team members - Alise Post and Arielle Martin. With the Olympic games already started, and just days before they were all to leave for London, Arielle snapped a chain while practicing on the London-replica course, and suffered some serious injuries. Suddenly, Brooke was IN, and on her way to London to represent the United States. In one of the more memorable moments of the BMX event, Brooke flashed the palm of her glove to the TV cameras. Written there on the palm of her Deft family gloves was scribbled “AMV” - her tribute and salute to her OTC roommate, who was watching from a hospital bed back home in San Diego. Despite a gnarly crash in qualifying on the first day of the Olympics - a bail that was seen around the World, Crain went on to make the main event and placed 8th. When Brooke’s not training or riding her bike, she likes to hang out with a few of her close friends, play basketball, or relax at home with her family.