USBHOF - Key Persons
Andy Taus is a lifetime resident of Allentown, PA. He began his cycling career as an active racer spanning the years 1968 through 1974. Andy was instrumental in the development of the current Trexlertown Velodrome, working with Bob Rodale. From that, he gained his first officials license and has the honor of beginning that career under the tutelage of the late and legendary Hale of Famer, Artie Greenberg. Andy's official capacity grew to include becoming a Grade A National Commissaire (the global word for cycling official) to Grade A International Cycling Union (UCI) Commissaire in 1990. During his career Andy has been the either the president of the international commissaire panel or been a key member of the commissaires' panel at the world's most prestigious cycling events such as World Track Championships, Olympic Games, Pan American and Good Will Games and nearly all of the USA's most important events during the last 33 years. He served as Technical Director of USPRO writing and adapting all regulations and assigning all officials for USA professional cycling. Andy continues to officiate, promote races, advising and organizing for cycling events around the world.
Job Titles:
- United States Bicycling Hall of Fame Director
Bill Brunner is a United States Bicycling Hall of Fame Director. Bill brings a unique set of skills to the USBHOF organization and is a valued member of the team.
Bob Bowen, now retired, was the long-time Public Relations Manager for the City of Davis. He was part of the Davis organizing group that brought the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame to Davis where it opened in April of 2010 in a city-owned building.
Bob serves as the USBHOF President and oversees the day-to-day operations of the bicycle museum in Davis. Bob has also produced the Hall's Induction Ceremony since 2008 including the signature inductee video biographies.
Bob has successfully produced large community events like the Amgen Tour of California stage start, Celebrate Davis, and the Livestrong Challenge bicycle tours.
The father of four and grandfather of five, Bob has also written, directed, and choreographed children's theatre. In his free time, Bob enjoys attending UC Berkeley football and S.F. Giants baseball games and riding a high-wheeled bicycle in local parades.
Ex-officio Board Member: Brodie Hamilton has been a resident of Davis since 1969. After receiving his B.S. degree from UC Davis, he worked for the university for 25 years. He served as the Director of Transportation and Parking Services at UC Davis for 13 years and has served in this same capacity at Stanford University for the last eight years. Both positions include responsibility for the campus bicycle programs. Since 1990, he has been involved in a wide variety of local, regional and statewide activities involving bicycling, including the UC Davis Committee on Bicycle Programs, Cyclebration Classic Steering Committee (City of Davis and UC Davis event celebrating the bicycle), Yolo Transportation Management Association, Board of Directors of the Yolo County Transportation District (and member of its Technical Advisory Committee), City of Davis Bike Plan Task Force, Sacramento Area Council of Governments Interstate 80 Corridor Plan Technical Advisory Committee and the Transportation Roundtable, and the Transportation Enhancement Activities Advisory Council the California Department of Transportation. He helped UC Davis secure the Pierce Miller bicycle collection and has been involved in organizing high wheel bike races for many years.
Bruce Donaghy, a cyclist on the boycotted 1980 U.S. Olympic team, holds six U.S. National Championship titles, competed in two World Championships, placing in the top ten in both years (1979 and 1980), and twice has won the title of Rider of the Year at the Lehigh Valley Velodrome. In 2004 Bruce was inducted to the Lehigh Valley Velodrome Hall of Fame in commemoration of his lifetime accomplishments. Always a role model to cyclists,Bruce served on the Board of Directors of the Lehigh Valley Velodrome in the early 1990s.
As founder of COBRA, a non-profit organization, Bruce served as liaison between the U.S. Olympic Team and the U.S. Bicycling Federation and represented the Olympic Speaker's Bureau as keynote speaker to civic organizations. Featured in Bicycling Magazine, he consulted with Coca Cola and Alfa Romeo to establish corporate sponsored cycling teams and also worked with Shimano and Panasonic in a joint venture to develop and evaluate racing components. He continues his love of cycling actively competing in master's criterium and road races.
Bruce, a native of new Jersey, is a certified flight instructor holding a commercial single and multi-engine pilot's license. He has logged over 3,200 hours of flight time. He is married and lives in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania.
Daniel Lee developed a love of writing and cycling as a teenager and has stuck with both since. He now works in digital and print communication and public relations for SRAM, a global maker of cycling components, and its Zipp Speed Weaponry division. He spent more than 17 years in journalism including positions as a business-technology reporter at the San Jose Mercury News and a business reporter and columnist at the Indianapolis Star. His nonfiction book, "The Belgian Hammer: Forging Young Americans into Professional Cyclists," was featured on NBC Sports Network's live coverage of the 2012 Tour de France.
In 1993, Lee worked as a communication assistant for International Cycling Productions in Stamford,Conn. ICP organized and promoted the Corestates U.S. Pro Cycling Championships, the First Union Grand Prix, Thrift Drug Classic and other major pro road races. During college and grad school Lee competed in two Collegiate Road Cycling Championships (1991 and 1992) and briefly in Belgium and Germany (1992). He also was a member of the Chicago Wind - for half a race! - of the National Cycle League in 1991. Lee holds bachelor's degrees in history and magazine journalism and a master's in journalism from Ball State University. He lives with his wife and three children in Carmel, Ind.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Executive Board
David is not only member of the Executive Board, he also serves as the Collections Manager for the USBHOF museum. David has served the USBHOF organization since the organization moved to Davis, CA and opened the museum in April of 2010. David is the former long-time Bicycle Programs Coordinator at the University of California Davis.
Deb Schiff has been active with USAC and cycling since 1986. Previous USBHOF board member. Working on the nomination committee and ...
George Mount began racing competitively in 1973 as a Junior category racer. In 1974 he began to win local Category 1 races and set records that ...
Kendra Wenzel of Portland, Oregon is a "lifer" in the sport of cycling. She started racing during college in Davis, CA in the mid-1980s at age 18, racing nationally and internationally for a total of 12+ years, primarily on the road and track. Highlights include a gold medal at the Pan Am Games, a 4th at the Goodwill Games, and 6th at the World Championships in the Individual Pursuit. As a student at UC Berkeley, she won the National Collegiate Road Championship in 1994. Later as a part of Team Saeco, she won silver in 1998 and bronze in 1999 at the Elite National Road Race Championships. She participated in the World Championship Road Race in 1997 and 1998.
Kendra transitioned to coaching in the late 1990s, writing training articles for Velonews and working with a variety of racers, including the 2013 Women's US Pro Road and Individual Pursuit Champion. She's been coaching for nearly 25 years now with her business Wenzel Coaching, which has about 35 active cycling coaches around the country. Kendra co-authored the book Bike Racing 101 in 2003.
Kendra served as the female athlete representative on the USCF Board of Trustees and USA Cycling Road Committee from 2008 to 2015, taking part in the Women's Committee there as well. In the promoter realm, she worked as the pro road race director at the Sea Otter Classic from 2004 to 2011, and has been a part of crews on the National Road Championships and gran fondos such as the Tour de Hood and USBHOF Gran Fondo. She has been on the on the US Bicycling Hall of Fame nomination committee since 2014. She also serves as the chair of the Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA) Women's Committee, which was formed to help grow women's cycling and racing in Oregon. Kendra enjoys helping all levels of riders improve their training and skills and learn to ride more confidently.
Peter has extensive experience in American cycling as a competitor, director of communications for international races, and author of six books on the sport in addition to writing hundreds of articles for cycling publications while working 30 years as a journalist and magazine editor covering national labor, economic, and public policy issues in Washington, D.C. His awards include the Silver Inkwell Award for Magazine Excellence from the International Association of Business Communicators, the Alumnus of the Year from Ball State University's Department of Journalism, and the 2011 Christine White Award for Literary Journalism from Goucher College.
Pieter was born, raised and educated in the Netherlands. While Skating and Cycling was and still is the norm he also played soccer and finished his kicking career in the ASL.
Lived for a short time in Lafayette, California and after serving in the U.S. Corps of Engineers was relocated to Somerset, N.J. where he still resides.
Sean Petty has been involved in the administration, promotion and management of cycling programs at the highest levels in the United States and internationally for over 36 years.
From 1985-1990 he managed the 7-Eleven cycling sponsorships for men, women and juniors road and track teams, including the first U.S. pro men's team in the Tour de France; a national road series; a national track series and 7-Eleven's sponsorship of the 1986 UCI World Championships in Colorado Springs.
From 1994 to 2014 Sean held senior management positions at USA Cycling and managed an array of programs including national team programs, marketing, sponsorship and international relations. He was the cycling team leader for Team USA at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. He has served in various capacities at 51 UCI World Championships in various disciplines including road, track, mountain bike and BMX. He remains as a consultant for USA Cycling.
Petty now serves as a volunteer board member for several cycling organizations including the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame and Bicycle Colorado. He is the only UCI Road Commission member from outside of Europe and has served on that commission since 2005. As a strong advocate for women's cycling, Petty served as the race director for the USA Pro Challenge women's race (2015) and the women's Colorado Classic (2017-2019).
Tom Schuler has achieved as much off the bike as on it. Now residing in Wauwatosa, Wis., his racing years as an amateur and professional road cyclist were marked by more than 100 career victories beginning in 1970.
An active coach and team organizer, he was co-founder and charter member of the 7-Eleven Cycling team and assistant director of the Motorola Cycling team. He was also "directeur sportif" for Team Saturn from 1991-2003. He now heads his own sports management company with several successful teams now under its direction. His efforts as a coach have helped produce 32 Olympians, multiple national and world champions and six Olympic medalists.
And when not working, Tracy races road, track, cyclo-cross, and even an occasional mt.bike race. She has been racing since 1971 and along the way has chaired the USCF board as well as served as the chair for the Women's Committee. Perhaps, her most significant contribution was being one of leading voices of master cyclists. She served on the UCI Masters Commission and was instrumental in the UCI recognizing Masters World Championship. Of course ,this meant also lobbying USA Cycling/USCF for five-year age groups in all disciplines in the U.S. Tracy also helped open the way to having USA Cycling hosting national championships for Para cyclists. Tracy is also an experience promoter - promoting mountain bike, cross, and road events for over 20 years.
Last, but not least, Tracy led and managed the Fuji T.E.A.M. with a roster of some of the top women of the era - Karen Bliss, Connie Paraskevin, Nicole Rhinehart, Jeanne Golay, and so many more.
Among the many expressions of her personal activism, Tracy serves as chair for the Special Olympic International's Cycling Committee and works with Cuba's Paralympic cycling program.
Tracy Lea, CFRE, Vice President - Tracy has been a senior consultant in the field of non-profit direct response integrated fundraising for over 35 years. She is a Certified Fundraising Executive. Tracy's expertise in fundraising, mentoring, and volunteering in the world of nonprofits was recognized by the Direct Marketing Association awarding Tracy the 2022 Hall of Leaders Award. She is a former President of the Direct Marketing Association of Washington DC (DMAW) and was named also named DMAW's 2017 Industry All-Star as well as their 2012 Volunteer of the Year. She also served as the Co-Chair of the 2012 "Bridge to Integrated Marketing and Fundraising Conference." As a former president of DMAW and co-chair of the Bridge Conference she is committed to helping nonprofits stay abreast of our ever-changing and challenging direct-response world.