Felicia Stancil
![]() Stancil in Shepparton, Australia in 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nickname | 'Flyin' | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Antioch, Illinois, U.S. | May 18, 1995|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | BMX racing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2014–2017 | GT | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2018 | Powerlite Dan's Comp | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019–2020 | Supercross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2021 | Answer SSquared | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Major wins | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2019 USA Cycling National Champion[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UCI BMX Supercross career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Starts | 34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Championships | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wins | 0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Podiums | 7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best finish | 2nd in 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Felicia Stancil (born May 18, 1995) is an American female BMX rider. Stancil has won 14 UCI World Titles including the 2012 UCI BMX World Championships titles for Junior Women and the Junior Women Time Trial in Birmingham, United Kingdom.[2] A year later she successfully defended both titles at the 2013 UCI BMX World Championships in New Zealand.[3] At the 2015 Pan American Games, Stancil won gold in her first international win as a professional. The win resulted in the first gold medal won by the United States at the 2015 games.[4] After reaching the final in all ten races on the 2019 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup series, Stancil finished out the year 2nd in the overall standings.[5] Adding on to her successful 2019, Stancil was awarded the 2019 Golden Crank Pro of the Year Title by Pull Magazine.[6]
Racing career
[edit]World Championship titles
[edit]- 2004: 9 Girls [15]
- 2005: 10 Girls [16]
- 2007: 12 Girls
- 2007: 12 & Under Girls Cruiser
- 2009: 14 Girls [17]
- 2009: 13 & 14 Girls Cruiser
- 2010: 15 Girls [18]
- 2010: 15 & 16 Girls Cruiser [19]
- 2011: 16 Girls [20]
- 2011: 15 & 16 Girls Cruiser [21]
- 2012: Junior Women
- 2012: Junior Women Time Trial
- 2013: Junior Women
- 2013: Junior Women Time Trial
Collegiate career
[edit]Felicia attended Marian University in Indiana from 2013 to 2018 where she won the USA Cycling Collegiate BMX National Championship individual title in 2014, 2015 and 2018. Stancil graduated from Marian with a degree in biology and a minor in business in 2018.
Personal life
[edit]Stancil grew up in Lake Villa, Illinois where she graduated from Grayslake North High School[citation needed]. Felicia started BMX when she was 4 years old, taking up after her father who was also a professional BMX rider. Besides BMX, Stancil also played volleyball, basketball, floor hockey and track & field growing up. She now resides in Indianapolis, Indiana.
References
[edit]- ^ "Felicia Stancil- Your New 2019 UCI Elite Women National Champion!".
- ^ "Fields, Stancilscore timetrial superfinal wins at BMX World Championships".
- ^ "Stancil and Gaian highlight last day of BMX World Championships".
- ^ "Lake Villa's Felicia Stancil wins BMX gold medal at Pan American Games". Chicago Tribune. 16 July 2015.
- ^ "Women-Supercross Ranking-2019".
- ^ "2019 USA BMX Grands Pro Results".
- ^ "2017 Worlds Final Classification-Women Elite".
- ^ "2016 Worlds Final Classification-Women Elite".
- ^ "Women Elite-Time Trial".
- ^ "Superfinal results".
- ^ "2014 Worlds Final Classification-Women Elite".
- ^ "Rotterdam 2014 Women Elite Time Trial Results" (PDF).
- ^ "2013 UCI BMX World Championships Time Trials". 27 July 2013.
- ^ "Junior Women Time Trial Superfinal" (PDF).
- ^ "2004 BMX World Championships".
- ^ "2005 BMX World Championships".
- ^ "UCI Worlds 09".
- ^ "2010 Worlds 15 Girls Results".
- ^ "UCI Worlds 2010".
- ^ "16 Girls 2011".
- ^ "15-16 Girls Cruiser 2011".
External links
[edit]- Felicia Stancil at UCI BMX Supercross World Cup
- Felicia Stancil at The-Sports.org
- Felicia Stancil at Olympedia
- Felicia Stancil at Olympics.com
- Felicia Stancil at Team USA (archived)
- 1995 births
- Living people
- American BMX riders
- American female cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for the United States
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in cycling
- Cyclists at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
- UCI BMX World Champions (elite women)
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- People from Antioch, Illinois
- Sportspeople from Lake County, Illinois
- Cyclists from Illinois
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- American cycling biography stubs