Born to Ride with Shayna Powless (Episode 55)

This week on the show Kathryn and Kristi catch up with professional cyclist Shayna Powless. Shayna started riding bikes as soon as she could walk, and won her first bike race at just 4 years old. An all-around athlete through high school, Shayna narrowed her focus to cycling in her senior year and then became a member of the UCLA inter collegiate cycling team when she went to college. Although she calls mountain bike racing her “first love,” Shayna switched to road racing after college and is now a member of Team Twenty24 and is hoping to race on the road and track at the 2024 Olympic Games. In the meantime, she has taken to gravel racing and will be toeing the line at Unbound Gravel in just a couple of weeks. Shayna is the first ever female Native American professional cyclist. She shares why it is important to her to acknowledge and celebrate her roots, and also for all cyclists to acknowledge when they are training and racing on tribal lands. Shayna is the co-founder of the Dream Catcher Foundation, which serves to empower future generations of Native American women and children. The foundation provides free, easily accessible sports camps for native youth, and works to shed light on the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in the US and Canada. You can support the Dream Catcher Foundation through their website https://www.dreamcatcherfdn.org Follow Shayna on Instagram @shaynapowless **Support the Girls Gone Gravel Podcast** InsideTracker: get 25% off at insidetracker.com/girlsgonegravel