At 19, Alex is the youngest rider on EF Education-Oatly but she is wise and experienced beyond her years. She decided to turn down an opportunity to study engineering at university and become a professional bike racer.

Alex has always been an athlete. She was an avid speed skater growing up in Calgary and found track cycling when she was looking for a summer sport to complement skating. She loved that both sports demanded so much of her, but once she realized that could train and race on the road and not be stuck on an oval all the time, she was hooked on road racing.

Last year she made 10 podium appearances across Europe and Canada, including coming third at the Ronde van Vlaanderen Juniors, winning the Canadian junior crit national title, and defending her Canadian junior road national title. Alex’s primary goal for 2025 is to learn from her teammates and be able to help them on the road.

You’ve seen her dancing on social media, on the podium, and everywhere in between. Alison’s love of movement, whether it’s dancing, riding, or being outdoors, is infectious.

Alison earned the biggest win of her career to date in 2023 when she won Paris-Roubaix from a breakaway that she kept alive from the race’s early kilometers. She followed it up the next month by winning that year’s Canadian road race national championships in her native Alberta. Alison is a two-time Olympian and has raced ten times in the world championships, including a sixth place finish in 2021.

In 2024, she won a stage at the Vuelta, rode a strong Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift for her teammates, and competed for Canada in the Olympic Games. Just as important as her results was the leadership that she showed on the road.

For Alison, winning is important, but it doesn’t matter to her whether she’s atop the podium or if it’s one of her teammates. She’s more interested in making a difference in each race and contributing to the best result possible for the team.

Growing up on her family’s farm in Vermilion, Alberta, Alison had endless opportunities to exhaust her energy by helping with chores or playing with her siblings. But her mother noticed that Alison’s energy never seemed to dwindle, so she signed her daughter up for every sport available in her hometown of 4,000 people. Alison’s curiosity and innate athletic talent led her to take up swimming, compete provincially in gymnastics, go hiking in the Himalayas, and eventually to pick up an old bike that a former farmhand had left behind on her family’s farm. Fast forward to today and Alison is still driven by that same sense of curiosity, but this time she’s wondering just how far she can push her limits on the bike.

Family bike rides turned into something more dedicated when Babette’s older sister joined a local cycling club as a teenager. Wanting to emulate her sibling, Babette began to take cycling more seriously. The pair often trained together, encouraging each other to grow and improve. Still just 20 years old, Babette remains focused on continuing to grow and pushing her limits.

Growing up in the Netherlands, Babette quickly learned to love headwinds and harsh weather. Today, she is happiest racing when the conditions are tough and the parcours includes cobbles, or punchy hills. Naturally, she loves the spring classics.

Babette is currently studying in an online medical science course. She enjoys how studying forces her to take a break from cycling. Another passion of hers is cooking. Babette’s specialty is homemade gnocchi.

Jack Rootkin-Gray decided he wanted to become a professional cyclist when he was seven. The determined young Brit made his WorldTour debut in 2024 and got stuck into his first year with the pros, racing everywhere from Australia to Belgium to China.

Jack brings talent, grit, and pure racing instinct to our team. He had to stick to his line to make it to the pros. He won three races in his final year as an amateur and finished fourth at the U23 world championships. Just a few years before, he was ready to give up the sport and take up a spot at the London School of Economics.

Jack grew up in the British track program. It was a great school for him, as an up-and-coming athlete, but Jack has never been one for riding in circles in air-conditioned arenas. He loves racing on the open road and has done so ever since he was six and saw a local club out training round a park near his boyhood home in Worcestershire, England. As soon as he saw those racers, all kitted out on their sparkling bikes, he knew he wanted to do the same thing. His dad, a daily cycle commuter, bought Jack his first racing bike. The summer he was seven, Jack decided his future road. He played football, rugby, tennis, hockey, swimming, and track and field right through school, but never gave up his childhood dream of racing with the pros.

A trip to Belgium to race kermesses with some friends when he was 15 got him even more excited about cycling. Riding around tidy parks in England was one thing. Rattling over cobbles at 200 heart beats per minute, chopping corners through corn and wheat fields, and outwitting his wiliest rivals from winning breaks—that was bike racing! And Jack was good at it. He was pretty good at riding around in circles on wooden boards too, but the track didn’t get his heart racing like road racing did.

Jack earned his WorldTour chance with his exploits on the road. He returned to racing with new fire. He trained smart and raced hard every chance he got and racked up an impressive tally of results, both at home and around Europe. His ride in Glasgow, on that formidable world championship circuit, proved that he was one of the best U23 riders in the world. Going forward, Jack still doesn’t know what kind of pro he is going to be.

Long term, he wants to be competitive in the classics, and throw down with the best riders in the world when the hardest, most tactical races of the season are being decided. He’ll keep trying to get better. He’s going to make sure he enjoys the process too.

In his first year in EF Education-EasyPost pink, Danish classics star Kasper Asgreen wants to add to his impressive list of victories, which already includes the Ronde van Vlaanderen, E3 SaxoBank Classic, and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, as well as a stage at the Tour de France and four Danish time-trial titles. He joined our team because he was impressed with our squad’s attacking style.

That’s how Kasper loves to race, too – when the peloton explodes, and he has to make split-second decisions on the fly, pick his moment to go, and then ride with everything he has got to the line, he comes into his own. That’s why he loves the spring classics. Kasper can’t wait to lead his new teammates onto the cobbles at races like Flanders and Roubaix.

He learned how to race when he was a kid in Denmark, where he started out riding for the local club in Kolding, the small university city where he now lives with his wife and which he will always call home. Before he took up cycling, Kasper rode horses. From the age of four, he competed in dressage. He still draws on his childhood equestrian experience now as a pro bike racer. It taught him discipline: the value of showing up and putting in the work no matter what.

Bike racing was tough for him at first. Kasper didn’t win a race for his first three years. He loved the sport nonetheless and was soon making fast progress. Now, he is one of the best one-day racers in the world.

Still, Kasper’s love of the sport is what drives him. Being a pro comes with pressures and hard times, but he knows that it is a privilege to be a bike racer. He races better when he is enjoying the sport, and he enjoys the sport most on a winning team.

Letizia is one of the most consistent riders in the peloton. In 2024, the Giro d'Italia stage winner racked up over a dozen top-ten results and helped control the peloton to allow teammate Clara Emond to escape and win her own Giro d’Italia stage. She was our breakout star during the 2025 spring classics, which she finished with a great second place at Paris-Roubaix.

Riding bikes is almost a requirement to be in the Borghesi family. Letizia and her younger sister grew up hearing stories from her dad about his wins as a U23 racer and Letizia thought to herself, “I could do that.” She started racing as a 12-year-old and hasn’t looked back. Her parents still love to ride and you’ll often find them – and her dogs – at Letizia’s races, having driven their camper van from their family home in Italy to support their daughter.

Hailing from the mountains of northern Italy, Letizia is happiest when she is outside. She adores her home region of Trentino and you can often find her hiking to the nearby lakes when she’s not training on the road. She earned the silver medal in the 2022 Italian gravel national championships, her first ever gravel race, and has since also raced the gravel world championships. In the off season, Letizia enjoys competing in the local cyclocross races and was second in the 2024 Italian CX national championship. Given her experience in cyclocross, it’s not a surprise that her favorite races are the cobbled classics because she loves the steep climbs and is used to the harsh weather conditions.

Letizia completed her bachelor’s degree in sports science and she is currently studying for her master’s degree in biology/nutrition.

In his first season with our squad, 21-year-old Madis Mihkels wants to turn the promising results he earned in his first two years as a pro into big wins. Madis's favorite races are the northern classics. He loves competing in the wind and muck in Belgium and France and flies over the cobblestones. In 2024, he raced into the top-ten at Paris-Roubaix. He thrives at high speed, brushing elbows with his competitors on the roughest, smallest roads. But Madis' ambitions will never stop after he's rounded the last corner of the Roubaix velodrome. He wants to go for wins throughout the year. One-day races, stages in the biggest tours—he wants to cross their finish lines first. He has already won stages at the Deutschland Tour and the Tour of Estonia. He rode his first Giro last season, finished on the podium at the European championships, and raced the Olympics. Now, he wants to step up his game.

Madis honed his speed on the BMX track, where he raced until he was 15. He's always been an athlete. He started competitive swimming at four years old and did all kinds of sports when he was a kid. He was pretty good at them all, but it was on a bike that he started to dream of being great.

Madis balances his need for speed and rough-and-tumble racing with a quiet life in Estonia. He was born and raised in Tartu and, despite his home country's harsh winters, still opts to live there, though he has recently moved to Tallinn, the capital. He enjoys spinning out into the forests on his bike, passing lakes and rivers on quiet, smooth, nearly car-free roads. Before the thermometer dips too far below freezing and the snow plows come out, he can always escape somewhere warm. As soon as the ice is gone, he wants to go home, where he can fish for pike in fresh, clean water.

Max Walker is raring to go for his first pro season with EF Education-EasyPost. The soft-spoken 23-year-old from the Isle of Man pushed hard to earn his spot on our team. Second in the British national time trial championships last summer, and third in the corresponding road race a few days later, he caught our scouts’ eyes. 

They saw a versatile talent, who had already shown that he has what it takes to go up against the pros. Max raced the Volta ao Algarve last February, rubbing shoulders with WorldTour riders in his first pro-level stage race, before going on to win two stages in the Tour of Japan, a stage victory in the Sibiu Cycling Tour, and securing his two podium places at the British nationals.

This year, Max wants to continue to develop as a racer. He is set to become a key rider for us in the classics and a valuable teammate in stage races. He also wants to hone his time trial skills.

Long term, Max’s great dream is to ride the Tour. He got into the sport at Dot Tilbury’s racing league on the Isle of Man when he was a child and heard all of the stories of Manx legends like Mark Cavendish and Peter Kennaugh racing in the big leagues; the Tour is the biggest race of them all.

To get there, Max has moved to Europe to be closer to his teammates. He is already great friends with our Girona crew and riders who live in Andorra and is looking forward to lots of rides with them in the sun. It’s another journey for the British rider but one that he thinks will help him flourish within the team.

The 23-year-old is embarking upon her third professional season as a bike racer and is just getting warmed up. Nina is a budding classics rider and she loves a hard day of racing in challenging weather conditions. Her primary goal for 2025 is to learn and grow as a rider, but she also hopes to play a role in the squad’s classics campaign.

Nina has earned a handful of top-tens in her first two seasons and is keen to continue developing. She loves to race aggressively and relishes a chance to spend the day in the break.

Nina has many fond memories of spending the summer with her family in their camper van as they followed the men’s edition of the Tour de France. That’s where she first got the idea to ride - she wondered how fast she could make it up the same iconic climbs she visited while watching the Tour.

Her ideal vacation is anything to keeps her outdoors and active. She adores hiking, backpacking, and bikepacking. Nina is currently in her second year of studying for her bachelor’s degree in psychology, so vacation time is admittedly limited these days!

After an active childhood, Sarah began racing triathlons as a university student just to try something new and was soon invited to a talent ID camp by that Australian Institute of Sport. She knew she had the engine to race with the best in the world so she didn’t let injuries or setbacks keep her from achieving her dream of becoming a professional athlete.

Today, Sarah is a seasoned veteran of the peloton and a mentor to her newer teammates. She won the Australian road national championship title in 2021 and has also earned wins at the Simac Ladies Tour, GP Cham-Hagendorn, the Tour of Britain Women, Geraardsbergen-Gooik, Navarra Elite Classics, and the Bretagne Ladies Tour.

In 2025, Sarah is excited to bring her knowledge and experience to the spring classics. She loves the intense mental focus that the classics demand and the physicality of holding her line on the punchy cobbled sectors.

Sarah still loves to try new things. Growing up in Sydney means she is well versed in warm weather sports but she is eager to try out speed skating, cross-country skiing, and alpine skiing. Learning remains a passion of hers. She earned her undergraduate degree in sports science and is currently working on her masters degree in clinical physiology.