Dawn C. Wylong

President

Now president of the board of directors, Dawn Wylong has been with the Hall of Fame since 2002. Starting as an executive director, she managed the office, planned the induction events, and eventually moved into a board position.

Inspired by the history she was learning, Dawn has now been racing bicycles for the last five years. To make her experience more meaningful, she became manager of a regional junior women’s team that is part of the largest junior development program in New Jersey, the Colavita U19 Junior Bicycle Racing Team.

Taking a break from cycling, she works full time for New Jersey Manufacturer’s Insurance Group, an A++ rated company, where she manages a web development team and coordinates Peoplesoft training for the Human Resources department. Dawn is a certified project manager , practicing for nearly 20 years. Born in Yonkers, New York, Dawn now resides in New Jersey.

Ernie Seubert

Vice President

As a competitor, promoter, official and a leader in cycling advocacy both regionally and nationally, Ernie Seubert has been continuously involved in the sport for decades. After more than a dozen years competing on the national stage, Ernie’s commitment to governing the sport saw him take on the leadership positions with the Amateur Bicycling League of America/US Cycling Federation, the US Olympic Committee and the organizer of the 1978 Junior World Championships, among others.

Ernie has helped set modern day standards for cycling’s rules and regulations and also worked to promote developmental events for young riders and various women’s cycling races. He served as the cycling road coach for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and was the Assistant Chef de Mission of the US Olympic Committee at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

For more than 30 years, Ernie served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Amateur Bicycling League of America, including four years as its president. He also served in a similar role for the US Olympic Committee, with a four-year stint on its Executive Committee. In 2002 he was recipient of the US Olympic Committee’s “President Award”.

Most recently, Ernie has been a member of the US Bicycling Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors since 1996, serving as its president for four years. He currently is a member of the Executive Committee and chairs the Nominations and Selection Committee. Recognized for his decades of varied contributions to the sport, Ernie was inducted into the Hall in 1994. Professionally, Ernie continues his career as an Executive Vice President with Campbell Solberg Insurance in New York City.

Pieter DeHaan

Secretary

Pieter was born, raised and educated in the Netherlands. While Skating and Cycling was and still is the norm he also played soccer and finished his kicking career in the ASL.

Lived for a short time in Lafayette, California and after serving in the U.S. Corps of Engineers was relocated to Somerset, N.J. where he still resides.

Manufactured structural building components, was a project representative for public school construction and director of plant operations. As a member of N.J. Assoc. of School Business Officials chaired Safety/Environmental and Energy Conservation Measures committees. Now a member emeritus. Was a member of N.J. State Public School physical plant review team.

Was President of the Somerset Wheelmen, now a life member, and the N.J. Bicycling Association. Was elected as Director from the N.E. on the USCF board and served on its Finance and Olympic Committee and as Judicial Chair. Participated in the organization of America’s longest continuous running bicycle race in Somerville, NJ as well as on National and International cycling events in various capacities. A licensed racing official at local, state and international events for over 20 years Associated with the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame for over 20 years and currently is serving as secretary.

Still rides bike, but no longer in the snow, and weather permitting visits his wife Nancy at Rutgers U. and elicit knowledge from faculty at Physics for his continued interest in Environmental studies and a project design of a human powered racing bike using magnetic induction principles.

Is now a part time consultant in all disciplines of public school facilities and also volunteers professional courtesy assistance to school plant administrators.

Ray Cipollini

Treasurer

Ray Cipollini has been involved in the sport of cycling for over 25 years. Ray has been an active participant as a competitive road cyclist at the Junior level (Under-18), Elite (Amateur), and as a Veteran competitor.

In addition, he has held various positions within the sport including Race Promoter/Organizer, licensed Coach, and licensed racing Official. Ray also chaired several competition programs in various state cycling organizations and was the founder and manager of several competitive cycling teams.

At the professional level, Ray was a founder of the Navigators Insurance Cycling Team in 1989. In 1994, the team became the Navigators Insurance Professional Cycling team, and was led by Ray and his business partner for 14 years, making it the longest running professional team in North America, and one of the longest continuous Professional Cycling sponsorships in the world.

He was an elected trade team representative on the USPRO Board of Trustees, and served on the USA Cycling Board of Trustees. Ray has served on the U.S. Bicycling Hall Of Fame Board of Directors since 1999, currently as Treasurer.

Ray has held technical positions (IT) with Fortune-50 firms in the Insurance and Finance industries, and is currently the CFO of a family-owned trucking/hauling business in NJ.

Richard "Rusty" Schommer, PE

Past President

Rusty Schommer is the past president of the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame, during which time the Hall conducted its nationwide search for a new headquarters facility, resulting in the selection of Davis, California. He has been on the board of directors since 2001 where he currently serves on the executive committee and previously as vice-president.

Rusty says he enjoyed moderate success in his racing days at the amateur level for 15 years with several district titles and international racing experience on US and trade teams. He has coached junior riders and continues to ride for the enjoyment and fitness.

He has worked in the consulting engineering business for over 25 years and is the president and founder of Schommer Engineering, Inc., located in Morristown, NJ. Rusty is also a licensed private pilot and is an active member of the 150th Aero Flying Club and the Rotary Club of Morristown. He is married with two children and lives in Chester, NJ.

William R. Brunner, Esq.

Past President

Edward Albert, Ph.D.

Edward Albert is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Hofstra University. During his 28 years at the University he served as Departmental Chair, headed the University’s Athletic Policy Committee, and, among his other teaching duties, taught courses in the Sociology of Sport.

For 25 years he has studied the sport of bicycle racing, publishing numerous papers in professional journals and edited collections, and presenting papers on the subject at conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. From 1975 to 2000 he raced as a category 2 rider all over the East Coast. In the early 1990’s he co-owned and edited a cycling news website Cyclegossip.com which attracted a large following.

After retiring from active racing he became interested in vintage lightweight bicycles and has a nationally recognized collection concentrating on historically significant American frame builders. Many of his restorations have won awards, including best in show, at collectors’ events. Presently he is writing a book on the New York builder and coach Dick Power. Professor Albert joined the Board of Directors of the Hall of Fame in 2006 heading up its museum committee. For one year he served as the Board’s Vice President. He still rides over 7000 miles a year.

Richard Bryne

John Carbahal

Anthony Costello

Anthony was born and raised in Davis and lived here through high school graduation when he left to attend UC Berkeley. After many years in the Bay Area, he returned to Davis where he is now a permanent resident. Like many Davis kids, Anthony grew up playing soccer year round but has also enjoyed a lifelong love of bike riding. He completed his first Davis Double Century as a junior at Davis High School and has done the event 4 more times since then. He is also a veteran of the Foxy's Fall Century and several sprint and half ironman distance triathlons.

Aside from serving on the board of directors of the California Bicycle Museum, Anthony is a co-founder and owner of three start-up technology companies located in downtown Davis and is currently the chairman of the City of Davis Business and Economic Development Commission.

Stephen Dragos

Steve Dragos has been involved with the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame for more than 20 years. In 1990 Dragos was hired by the Somerset County (NJ) business community to direct the Somerset Alliance for the Future. The first exhibition mounted by the Hall of Fame was located in the SAF offices in downtown Somerville where it remained for several years. Steve helped negotiate the next location in Somerville with a more prominent presence and larger quarters. Steve worked with various donors of the current collection and in particular the Frank Kramer collection.

Steve Dragos has directed non-profit community development organizations in Milwaukee WI, Phoenix AZ, Somerset County NJ and Camden NJ over a 40 year period. He is now retired and living in Southport, NC.

Matt Dulcich

Matt Dulcich completed his undergraduate environmental planning degree at UC Davis in 1992. He raced criteriums and time trials as a high school student in southern California and worked in a small bike shop learning retail, customer service, and bike repair skills in the bike industry.

While a student at UC Davis, he guided backpacking, mountain biking, mountaineering, kayaking, and rafting trips in throughout the western United States and skipped school for a 10-week, self-supported bike tour in New Zealand. He restarted road racing in 2000 and now rides about 7,000 miles each year.

Matt works as an environmental and transportation planner at UC Davis and leads much of the campus bike and pedestrian planning efforts. With an emerging interest in bicycle history, he eagerly joined the efforts of the California Bicycle Museum and researched and wrote the bicycle history descriptions for the Centennial bike museum display.

Alan Fernandes

Alan Fernandes moved to Davis in 1993 to earn his undergraduate degree at UC Davis. Later he obtained his law degree and is currently an attorney in private practice in Sacramento. Alan specializes in government law and governmental affairs and has in the past successfully advocated for state grant funding for the oldest publicly-owned museum west of the Mississippi, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Before practicing law he worked in the private sector for a major investment firm. In addition to his private sector work experience, he has worked for a non-profit organization and both the executive and judicial branches of government. In addition to serving on the Board of the California Bicycle Museum, Alan was the Chairman of the City of Davis' Business and Economic Development Commission. He is a new fan of the sport of cycling and when possible commutes by bicycle into Sacramento from Davis.

Brodie Hamilton

Brodie Hamilton has been a resident of Davis since 1969. After receiving his B.S. degree from UC Davis, he worked for the university for 25 years. He served as the Director of Transportation and Parking Services at UC Davis for 13 years and has served in this same capacity at Stanford University for the last eight years. Both positions include responsibility for the campus bicycle programs. Since 1990, he has been involved in a wide variety of local, regional and statewide activities involving bicycling, including the UC Davis Committee on Bicycle Programs, Cyclebration Classic Steering Committee (City of Davis and UC Davis event celebrating the bicycle), Yolo Transportation Management Association, Board of Directors of the Yolo County Transportation District (and member of its Technical Advisory Committee), City of Davis Bike Plan Task Force, Sacramento Area Council of Governments Interstate 80 Corridor Plan Technical Advisory Committee and the Transportation Roundtable, and the Transportation Enhancement Activities Advisory Council the California Department of Transportation. He helped UC Davis secure the Pierce Miller bicycle collection and has been involved in organizing high wheel bike races for many years.

John Hanst

John Hess

John Hess works as a research faculty member in the Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy in the UC Davis School of Medicine. He moved to Davis in 1977 as an undergraduate, and became completely convinced that cycling was the way to get around. John’s last class at UCD: Bicycle Frame Building from the UC Davis Craft Center. The one and only “Hess” fixed gear bike currently resides in his garage, with plenty of two-wheeled company. John and his wife, Katherine, continue to commute to work at the University and the City via bicycle, ride a tandem to use on bicycling vacations, and often ride “townie” bikes out to enjoy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. For the past three years, John has been the Davis Bike Club Board “Member at Large,” responsible for organizing the DBC’s annual Fall Century rides for approximately 1300 riders.

Dan Kehew

Dan Kehew is a graduate of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and of the UC Davis School of Law, and a member of the State Bar of California. His legal experience includes work for the California Legislative Counsel Bureau (the attorneys employed directly by the California Legislature, drafting legislation and assisting in legislative inquiries) and Yolo County Counsel (civil law office representing Davis’ home county, Yolo). He currently works as a Real Estate Counsel for the California Department of Real Estate. He is also an avid cyclist and bike collector, with 14 ride-worthy bikes ranging up to ninety years old. He recently ended a four year term as a member of the City of Davis’ Bicycle Advisory Commission. He has been involved with the Pierce Miller collection since 2004, and serves as president of the California Bicycle Museum. He regularly reminds fellow CBM board members to “be ambitious” regarding every aspect of the project – an attitude that continues to prove sound.

Peter Nye

Peter has extensive experience in American cycling as a competitor, director of communications for international races, and author of six books on the sport in addition to writing hundreds of articles for cycling publications while working 30 years as a journalist and magazine editor covering national labor, economic, and public policy issues in Washington, D.C. Awards include the Silver Inkwell Award for Magazine Excellence from the International Association of Business Communicators, and Alumnus of the Year from Ball State University’s Department of Journalism.

Mike Plant

Mike Plant has enjoyed a dual role in Olympic Sports for over 30 years as both athlete and executive. He began as a member of the 1980 US Olympic Speed Skating team at Lake Placid, and was also a six-time member of the US World Championship speed skating teams. In 1988, Plant founded Medalist Sports, a full-service marketing company that successfully produced International Cycling Events Tour de Trump, Tour de Pont, and Tour of China. Plant also served as President for USA Cycling from 1995-2002.

Internationally, Mike Plant is currently serving his second term on the International Cycling Federation’s (UCI) Executive Committee. He first served on this committee from 1997-2004, and was the Chairman of the Television and Marketing Commission. He has served on the USOC Board of Directors and Executive Committee throughout the past 25 years. Plant joined an esteemed class of individuals as he was inducted into the US Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2008. And in 2009, Mike Plant was elected US Olympic Chef de Mission for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. He maintains his position of Executive Vice President of Business Operations for the Atlanta Braves, which he has enjoyed since 2003.

Bill Roe

Bill Roe moved to Davis in 1970, after earning a degree in Architecture from Iowa State and an MBA from Stanford. He has been a partner in a construction, real estate development and property management firm, Tandem Properties, Inc., since his arrival. He led the campaign for a new 11,000 SF Davis Art Center in 1987 and the new 5,000 SF Pence Gallery in 2003 and supervised construction of both facilities. Also in 1987 he and his wife Nancy were named Davis’ Citizens of the Year. He served on the board of the Chamber of Commerce, was president of the Davis Rotary Club and has been a member of the Mondavi Performing Arts Center for eight years. In the summer of 1999 he rode his bike from San Francisco to NYC following America’s first transcontinental road, the Lincoln Highway. A year later, he published a book describing his journey entitled, “All the Way to Lincoln Way.” He is a long time member of the Davis Bike Club and rides over 5,000 miles a year.

Debbie Schiff

Wayne Stetina

New to the Hall of Fame board, Wayne was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999. He has a remarkable cycling career that includes: 3 Olympic teams, a Pan Am Gold Medal, member of the US National Team 1972 through 1987. He has won13 Individual National Championship Titles, 5 Elite and 8 Master’s Titles which were as recent as the last three years. Currently, Wayne races for the Amgen Master’s. Wayne Stetina was a member of the USCF Board of Directors, ‘ 79 to ’84, member of the USCF Trustee Board, 2005 through 2010 and USA Cycling Board of Directors, 2007 to 2010, now serving at Vice President. Wayne started his professional career 25 years ago, in 1984, with Shimano American Corp (Bicycle Components). Today, he is the Vice President of Shimano, USA.

Andy Taus

Andy Taus is a lifetime resident of Allentown, PA. He began his cycling career as an active racer spanning the years 1968 through 1974. Andy was instrumental in the development of the current Trexlertown Velodrome, working with Bob Rodale. From that, he gained his first officials license and has the honor of beginning that career under the tutelage of the late and legendary Hale of Famer, Artie Greenberg. Andy’s official capacity grew to include becoming a Grade A National Commissaire (the global word for cycling official) to Grade A International Cycling Union (UCI) Commissaire in 1990. During his career Andy has been the either the president of the international commissaire panel or been a key member of the commissaires’ panel at the world’s most prestigious cycling events such as World Track Championships, Olympic Games, Pan American and Good Will Games and nearly all of the USA’s most important events during the last 33 years. He served as Technical Director of USPRO writing and adapting all regulations and assigning all officials for USA professional cycling. Andy continues to officiate, promote races, advising and organizing for cycling events around the world.

Ken Hiatt

Ex-Officio

John Meyer

Ex-Officio

John Meyer serves as the Vice Chancellor of Resource Management & Planning at the University of California, Davis, which currently enrolls 30,000 students. His office coordinates the university's $2.8 billion annual budget and oversees the planning, design and construction, operations and stewardship of the campus's physical and natural resources. The Office employees approximately 860 staff members. During the 1990s, John served as the city manager of Davis, California. Prior to this time he held other positions in local government and consulting. He was a founding board member of Community Housing Opportunities Corporation, a non-profit organization which provides housing to low-income individuals and families. John holds a master's degree from the University of Southern California and a bachelor's degree from UC Davis. While marathon running is his recreation of choice, John often rides in the slipstream of his wife who cycles over 5,000 miles each year.