Muñoz and Summerhill hold American Crit Cup leads after Lake Bluff event

Marlies Mejias Garcia, shown here winning stage 2 at Tour of the Gila, won Lake Bluff Criterium on July 29
Marlies Mejias Garcia (Virginia's Blue Ridge TWENTY24), shown here winning stage 2 at Tour of the Gila, won Lake Bluff Criterium on July 29 (Image credit: Snowy Mountain Photography)

Marlies Mejias Garcia (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) and Simon Daniels (UNC Lotto Max) won the elite races at the Northwestern Medicine Lake Bluff Criterium on Saturday, which served as the seventh stop in the American Criterium Cup national series.

There were no changes at the top of the ACC leaderboard for individual standings, with Paola Muñoz (Miami Nights) and Danny Summerhill (American Cycling Group) maintaining the top spots for pro women and pro men.

Muñoz finished one spot off the podium in Lake Bluff behind Peta Mullens (Roxsolt Liv SRAM), but was able to pad her ACC lead to 499 points. Across seven events at Intelligentsia Cup she finished seventh or better each time. Mejias Garcia had four podiums across nine events.

Equally as successful on the week across Intelligentsia Cup events was Samantha Schneider (L39ION of Los Angeles), who was second at Lake Bluff and closed her margin to ACC women’s leader Muñoz from 182 points to 165 points and remained in third place overall. Samantha Schneider had four podiums in eight races, two of those victories (Northbrook Grand Prix and William Blair Grand Prix).

Andrea Cyr (Miami Nights) remained second in the ACC overall, but finished eighth at Lake Bluff, and her margin over Schneider shrunk to 58 points. 

Breck was part of the DNA Pro Cycling squad at the Vuelta a Colombia where she helped Diana Peñuela to victory on the first two stages and the points classification title. Teammates Kaitlyn Rauwerda also won a stage and Anet Barrera won the best foreigner rider jersey.

American Cycling teammates Summerhill and Michael Hernandez are one-two in the sprint classification, with Kalaba moving into third. 

Results

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Results - Pro women top 10
Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Marlies Mejias Garcia (Virginia's Blue Ridge TWENTY24)
2Samantha Schneider (L39ION of Los Angeles)
3Peta Mullens (Roxsolt Liv SRAM)
4Paola Muñoz (Miami Nights)
5Skylar Schneider (L39ION of Los Angeles)
6Heather Fischer (DNA Pro Cycling)
7Kendall Ryan (L39ION of Los Angeles)
8Andrea Cyr (Miami Nights)
9Nicola Macdonald (Cervelo Ziptrak)
10Chloe Patrick (Goldman Sachs ETFs Racing)
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Results - Pro men top 10
Pos.Rider Name (Country) TeamResult
1Simon Daniels (UNC Lotto Max)
2Ben Oliver (Mito@-NZ Cycling Project)
3Spencer Moavenzadeh (Miami Blazers)
4Cory Williams (L39ION of Los Angeles)
5Dusan Kalaba (ButcherBox Cycling p/b LOOK)
6Riley Sheehan (Denver Disruptors)
7Sam Morris (Project Echelon Racing)
8Eamon Franck (Austin Aviators)
9Michael Hernandez (American Cycling Group)
10Andz Flaksis (Miami Nights)
Jackie Tyson
North American Production editor

Jackie has been involved in professional sports for more than 30 years in news reporting, sports marketing and public relations. She founded Peloton Sports in 1998, a sports marketing and public relations agency, which managed projects for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Cycling. She also founded Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to promote safe cycling. She is proud to have worked in professional baseball for six years - from selling advertising to pulling the tarp for several minor league teams. She has climbed l'Alpe d'Huez three times (not fast). Her favorite road and gravel rides are around horse farms in north Georgia (USA) and around lavender fields in Provence (France), and some mtb rides in Park City, Utah (USA).

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