Cheri Elliott had a relatively short BMX career, but she is a four-time national champion and four-time world champion, including three consecutive National Number One girl-racer titles for the American Bicycle Association from 1983 through 1985.
17 Facts About Cheri Elliott
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Cheri Elliott held the regional UBR Number one girl racer title in 1982.
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Cheri Elliott was the first female racer inducted into the ABA BMX Hall of Fame in 1989, and the first female BMX racer inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2008.
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An athletic strawberry blond with deep dimples when she smiled, Cheri Elliott was approximately five feet tall in the seventh grade, making her somewhat larger than most of the boys in her class at Will Rodgers Intermediate Junior High School and the boys at the BMX track.
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Cheri Elliott helped that high school team win a championship.
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Cheri Elliott continued pursuing other sports during her BMX career, and after leaving the sport in 1986.
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Cheri Elliott was named Most Valuable Player in both basketball and volleyball during her senior year of high school.
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Cheri Elliott played in her college freshman year at the University of the Pacific.
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Cheri Elliott was, at the time, the only girl to win the Trophy Dash at an ABA national that anyone could recall.
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Cheri Elliott excelled in Quarter Pipe BMX freestyle trick riding, which at the time was unusual for a girl.
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Cheri Elliott was one of the few girls at the time who could do a "Table Top", where the rider, after launching herself high into the air off a steep ramp or berm, lays the frame of her bike parallel with the ground and righting the bike again before landing.
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Cheri Elliott retired from twenty-inch BMX racing early in the 1986 season, right after the ABA Supernationals.
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Cheri Elliott did not turn professional, because she retired at age 15 when the minimum required age to turn pro was 16.
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Over her cycling career, Cheri Elliott has won 14 major world and national titles, including four National Off Road Bicycle Association National Championships and two ESPN X Games gold medals.
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Cheri Elliott retired from competitive racing during the 2001 mountain bike season, becoming a Realtor in California; she bills herself as "The Broker on a Bike".
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Cheri Elliott is a public speaker, a helmet-safety advocate for children, and co-owns and runs her own sports management company, JED Sports Management.
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Cheri Elliott contemplated coming out of retirement for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, where BMX racing was making its Olympic debut:.