Becca Schepps joins JVS Women’s Team

by herb on Feb.09, 2010, under chronicle

Becca Schepps found her way to cycling after a terrible summer internship and 40 days of straight rain. Sitting at home in Princeton, NJ during the summer of 2003 she prayed for sunshine, watched the Tour De France and thought, “I could do that.” And well, she couldn’t, but she did buy a bike, and in the fall, headed back to the University of Wisconsin - Madison with a plan: Quit the UW Varsity Lightweight Rowing team and join the UW Road Cycling Team.

From there she raced Collegiate A’s, made her way to Collegiate Nationals, graduated, raced locally in Wisconsin and then in NJ with the Somerset Wheelmen, moved to Atlanta, began mountain biking, moved to San Francisco, raced with a group of rowdy boys as their ‘quota female’ for 12 and 24 hour races, and eventually crisscrossed the country one more time, landing in her current location: Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Becca commutes, rain or shine, every day on her 49t:18-fixed-gear hipster-mobile, to work as a copywriter at Saatchi & Saatchi. In addition to cycling she rock-climbs, thinks about running and crushes workouts at Crossfit Brooklyn.