While a coach at Carmichael Training Systems, Compton started racing again as the sighted pilot with Karissa Whitsell on a tandem Paralympic cycling team. Next came mountain biking as a member of the Trek/VW East Coast team. She started riding track and fat tires as a junior, then began racing on the track in college. cyclocross title in 2010 and added a fistful of wins to her list of UCI cyclocross podiums this past season.
Hailing from Wilmington, Delaware, but now a long-time resident of Colorado Springs, Compton won her seventh-consecutive U.S. “As much as I liked being independent for a few years, I’m ready to move onto a team that has the infrastructure to support me on both the ‘cross and mountain bike,” Compton said. After some 16 years’ racing, the 32 year old has signed on with a full-on, international sponsor - Rabobank-Giant Off-Road Team. Olympic mountain bike team and finally standing atop the podium at the cyclocross worlds after winning silver twice and bronze once. Now, however, Compton may have found the extra push needed to reach two lofty goals: qualifying for the 2012 U.S. Operating on the same bare-bones program, “Team Compton” - made up of Compton and Mark Legg, her husband, mechanic, soigneur and training partner - won two mountain bike national titles in short-track cross-country in 20. What makes Katie Compton’s seven consecutive national cyclocross championships so impressive and her pioneering American success on the European ‘cross circuit even more meaningful is that she’s done it largely as a privateer.
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