Jamie Lilly

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Jamie Lilly
Personal information
Full name Jamie Nicole Lilly
Nickname "Kiddo #1"
Date of birth September 2, 1983 (1983-09-02) (age 24)
Country Flag of the United States United States
Team information
Discipline Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Role Racer
Rider type Off Road
Amateur team(s)
1990
1990-1991
1991-1992
1992-1993
1994-1995
1996-1998		 Kastan
D&M
Racing Powerlite
U.S. Boss Racing Products
Auburn
GT Racing
Professional team(s)
1998-2000
2000
2001-2002
2002-2004
2004
2006		 GT Racing/Panasonic Shockwave
Systems-Web/Profile Racing
Systems-Web/Redline Bicycles
Free Agent/Systems Web
Fox/Supercross
Hyper Bicycles
Infobox last updated on:
May 29, 2008

Jamie Nicole Lilly (b. February 9, 1983 from San Diego, California USA) was a professional American "Mid School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from (1987-2004). Nicknamed "Kiddo #1" at 8 years old.[1]

Contents

[edit] Racing career

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

Started Racing: 1987 at five years old.She went to the track with her father who took her cousin racing and decided to try it herself.[2]

Sanctioning Body: [[]] ()

First race result:

First win (local):

First sponsor:

First national win: Possibly at the American Bicycle Association (ABA) Fall Nationals in Yorba Linda, California on October 28, 1989 (Day 1) in 7 & Under Girls. The next day she won 6 & Under Girls,[3] indicating that the previous day was a combined class due to lack of meeting the minimal number of participants required to have a class. Her possible first national race result was third in 6 & Under girls at the Winternationals in Chandler, Arizona on February 19, 1989 (Day 2)[4] Because of the practice of only listing the first three finishers of a Main Lilly could had been in previous nationals and not recorded in the materials availiable to the editor.

Turned Professional: 1998 at 15 years old[5]

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: 2004 Due to a knee injury.

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


*In the NBL Junior Women; No comparible level exist in the ABA.
**In the NBL 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 used.

[edit] Amateur

  • Kastan: -December 1990
  • D&M Racing: December 1990-thru 1991 (7 Girls and 8 girls)
  • Powerlite: 1991-September 1992
  • U.S. Boss Racing Products: September 1992-1993
  • Auburn: January 1994-December 1995
  • GT (Gary Turner) Bicycles: January 1996-December 1997

[edit] Professional

  • GT Racing/Panasonic Shockwave:January 1998-Mid October 2000
  • Systems-Web/Profile Racing: October 23, 2000-December 2000
  • Systems-Web/Redline Bicycles: January 2001-November 2002
  • Free Agent/Systems Web: November 2002-January 2004. The 2002 ABA Grandnational was her first race with Free Agent.[6]
  • Fox/Supercross: February 2004-Late 2004
  • Hiatus due to knee injury
  • Hyper Bicycles: January 2006-

[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)

  • 1996 13 Girls GrandnationalChampion
  • 1996 13 Girls National No.1

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 1990 California District 2 (CA-02) Girls No.1
  • 1990 7 Girls NAG No.1
  • 1990 7 Girls Grandnational Champion.
  • 1991 8 Girls NAG No.1
  • 1991 8 Girls Grandnational Champion
  • 1992 California District 2 (CA-02) Girls No.1
  • 1992 California District 2 (CA-02) Girls Cruiser No.1 Only girl in that distict in that division.
  • 1992 9 Girls Grandnational Champion
  • 1995 12 Girls Grandnational Champion
  • 1996 13 Girls World Cup Champion
  • 1996 13 Girls Grandnational Champion

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*


*See note in professional section

[edit] Professional

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

  • None (defunct)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

  • 2000 North American International Pro Girl Champion.

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

  • 1998 ABA Race of Champions Pro Girl Champion.
  • 2000 Pro Girls World Champion
  • 2000 Pro Girls National No.1
  • 2003 Pro Girls World Champion
  • 2003 Pro Girls Grandnational Champion
  • 2003 Pro Girls National No.1

United States Bicycle Motocross Association (USBA)

  • None (defunct)

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*


Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

  • None (FIAC did not have a strictly professional division during its existence) (defunct).

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

  • 2000 Junior Woman World Champion

*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC 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 1997 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

  • Named no. 22 of Crig Bertlett's "gOrk's Top 90 BMXers of the 90s!!!" 1999 list[7]
  • She was the highest money making girl int he sport in 1999 according to gOrk in his top 90 list.[8]

[edit] BMX Product Lines

[edit] Significant injuries

[edit] Peccadilloes

[edit] Post BMX career

[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

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

  • None

BMX Plus!:

Total BMX

  • None (defunct)

Bicycles and Dirt:

  • None (defunct)

Ride BMX Magazine:

Snap BMX Magazine & Transworld BMX:

  • None

BMX World

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

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

[edit] BMX press magazine interviews and articles

  • "Q&A: If you could race one race over again, which would it be?" Snap BMX Magazine December 1999 Vol.6 Iss.10 No.38 pg.42 Single question interview asked of Lilly and four other professional racers including Randy Stumpfhauser, Christophe Leveque, Neal Wood, and Michelle Cairns.

[edit] Miscellaneous and Trivia

  • Lilly won more pro women's races than anyone in 1999.[9]

[edit] End Notes

  1. ^ American BMXer July 1991 Vol.13 No.6 pg.22
  2. ^ Loopd.com biographical page.
  3. ^ BMX Plus! February 1990 Vol.13 No.2 pg.30 (results)
  4. ^ BMX Plus! June 1989 Vol.12 No.7 pg.28 results
  5. ^ Loopd.com biographical page.
  6. ^ Transworld BMX March 2003 Vol.10 Iss.3 No.77 pg.24
  7. ^ gOrk's Top 90 BMXers of the 90s!!! list.
  8. ^ 2002 Dale Holmes.com interview
  9. ^ Snap BMX Magazine March 2000 Vol.7 Iss.3 No.41 pg.79 (photo caption)

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