Alice Jung

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Alice Jung
Personal information
Full name Alice Jung
Nickname "Feisty"
Date of birth April 23, 1982 (1982-04-23) (age 26)
Country Flag of the United States United States
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Role Racer
Rider type Off Road
Amateur team(s)
1998-1999 Bauer Power Racing
Professional team(s)
1999-2001
2001-2002
2002
2002-2003
2003-2005		 Bauer Power Racing
Hyper
Prodigy Racing
Enigma
Free Agent
Infobox last updated on:
June 6, 2008

Alice Jung (born April 23, 1982 in South Korea (Moved to USA before her first birthday[1]) is a former professional "Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years are from 1996-2005. Had the moniker of "Feisty".

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[edit] Racing career

Note: Professional first are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.

Started Racing: 1996 at age 14. She got a BMX bicycle in lieu of a mountain bike due to lack of funds. When she was 13 years old her father gave her $250 for the mountain bike she wanted for Christmas in 1995. To her disappointment she did not have enough for a mountain bike but did have enough for a BMX bicycle, which she settled for.[2] Then she was informed about BMX racing by the salesman and the existence of a nearby BMX track. She enthralled when she road her new bike in practice on the course. However, she was too apprehensive to actually sign up for a membership and race for three months.[3]

First race result: Did Not Qualify (DNQ) in 14 Novice.

Sanctioning Body:

First win (local):

First sponsor:

First national win:

Turned Professional: 1999

First Professional race result:

First Professional win:

First Professional race result:

First Professional win:

First Junior Women Pro* race result:

First Junior Women Pro win:

First Senior Women Pro** race result:

First Senior Women Pro win:

Retired: 2005 after the ABA Grand Nationals.

Height & weight at height of his career (): Ht:" Wt:lbs.

*In the NBL/UCI Junior Women; No comparible level exist in the ABA.
**In the NBL/UCI it was/is Supergirls/Elite Women; in the ABA it is Pro Girls.

[edit] Career factory and major bike shop sponsors

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are given.

[edit] Amateur

  • Bauer Power Racing: 1998-Early 2001. Jung would turn professional with this sponsor.

[edit] Professional

  • Bauer Power Racing: 1998-Early 2001
  • Hyper Bicycles: March 26, 2001-May 22, 2002. Jung along with her partner Mike Gul left Hyper on good terms believing it was time to move on.[4]
  • Prodigy Racing: May 22, 2002-December 2002
  • Enigma Racing: December 2002-October 2003
  • Free Agent: October 2003-November 2005

[edit] Career bicycle motocross titles

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.

[edit] Amateur

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

  • None (defunct)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 1997, 98, 99 Girls Arizona State Champion

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

  • None (defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

  • None (defunct)

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None (defunct)

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

  • None


*See note in professional section.

[edit] Professional

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

  • None (defunct)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

  • None

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 2001 Pro Girls World Champion
  • 2002 Pro Girls Grandnational Champion
  • 2001, 2002 National No.1 Pro Girl

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

  • None (defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

  • None (defunct)

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None (defunct)

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*


*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC, the amateur cycling arm of the UCI, had been holding joint World Championship events as a transitional phase in merging which began in earnest in 1993. Beginning with the 1996 season the IBMXF and FIAC completed the merger and both ceased to exist as independent entities being integrated into the UCI. Beginning with the 1996 World Championships held in Brighton, England the UCI would officially hold and sanction BMX World Championships and with it inherited all precedents, records, streaks, etc. from both the IBMXF and FIAC.
Pro Series Championships

[edit] Notable accolades

[edit] Significant injuries

  • Broke her collar bone and fractured tail bone the weekend of April 29, 2001. She was laid up until The American Bicycle Association's (ABA) Dixieland Nationals held during the weekend of June 10, 2001[5]
  • Broke collar bone in July 2002.[6]
  • Had a back injury in early 2003
  • Broke collarbone at the NBL Tarheal National in North Carolina in May of 2003[7]
  • Broke collarbone for the sixth time at the NBL Easter Classic in Sarasota, Florida on April 11, 2004 in which she crashed in turn two. She still managed to race the main.[8]
  • Broke collarbone at the NBL Tar Heel National in Clemmons, North Carolina on May 28, 2005.

[edit] Miscellaneous and Trivia

  • Jung became the first female Pro to win the ABA's Girls Pro division title twice and also consecutively: 2001 and 2002[9]

[edit] Peccadilloes

[edit] Post BMX career

  • Jung retired after the 2005 ABA Grandnationals (coming in 5th in Women's pro on day 2) to concentrate on her college studies.

[edit] BMX magazine covers

Note: (defunct) denotes that the magazine was out of business before the career of the racer started.

Bicycle Motocross News:

  • None (defunct)

Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:

  • None (defunct)

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

  • None (defunct)

BMX Plus!:

Total BMX

  • None (defunct)

Bicycles and Dirt:

  • None (defunct)

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

  • None

Bicycles Today & BMX Today (The official NBL publication of the ABA under two different names):

ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official publication of the ABA under three different names):

[edit] BMX press magazine interviews and articles

  • "Interview:Alice Jung" Transworld BMX April 2003 Vol.10 Iss.4 No.78 pg.58

[edit] End Notes

  1. ^ Fellow racer Natarsha Williams' "Tarsha's World" site link page to Jung interview
  2. ^ a b Sicchics of bmx interview
  3. ^ May 2002 bmxultra.com interview.
  4. ^ www.bmxtreme.com May 23, 2002 entry
  5. ^ bmxtreme.com article word search for "tail bone" without the quotation marks.
  6. ^ Transworld BMX October 2002 Vol.9 Iss.10 No.72 pg.30
  7. ^ bmxultra.com May 2003 entry.
  8. ^ Transworld BMX August 2004 Vol.11 Iss.8 No.94 pg.18
  9. ^ Transworld BMX April 2003 Vol.10 Iss.4 No.78 pg.58

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