Erin Mirabella

Erin Mirabella was a track cyclist who raced the individual pursuit and points race at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. Mirabella was a six-time US Champion on the track. At the 1999 Pan American Games she won gold medals in both the individual pursuit and points race.

Mirabella won six major World Cup races – a 1999 and 2002 pursuit race; points races in 2002, at Aguascalientes in 2004, and the 2005 Pan American Championships; and a scratch race in Monterrey in 2002. She rode for the Pedalers (1999), Timex (2000), and Jane’s Cosmetics (2001) teams.

Mirabella later became an author of children’s books, the Barnsville Sports Squad Series. The series included Gracie Goat’s Big Bike Race and Shawn Sheep The Soccer Star.