Jennifer Schuble
Jennifer Schuble came onto the international cycling scene just a few years ago, but has already broken numerous American and world records.
Schuble graduated from Kingwood High School in Kingwood, Texas in 1995, where she was a four-year letterman in track and field. She was also a member of the soccer team that won the state championship twice and made it to the national championship final four times.
Schuble attended the United States Military Academy at West Point with plans to serve as a commission officer in the military until a traumatic brain injury led to her dismissal. After leaving West Point, she enrolled at the University of Alabama. Because of head injuries, athletic doctors at Alabama would not allow her to participate in sports until she was in graduate school, when her athletic eligibility had already expired. Schuble appealed to participate in track in her seventh year. But her collegiate athletic career ended almost as soon as it started. After her first track meet, she was involved in a major motor vehicle accident in which her right arm was crushed and she had another traumatic brain injury. Schuble received her bachelor's degree from the University of Alabama in 2001 and her master's degree in production operation research in 2003.
Michelle Akers serves as Schuble's role model because of her warrior spirit. Akers, who was a member of the gold medal winning U.S. Women's Soccer National Team at the 1996 Olympic Games, was recovering from knee surgery and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Schuble admires her because she set aside her illness and gave it everything she had.
At the 2008 Paralympic Games, Schuble made Akers proud, winning one gold and two silver medals.
Along with cycling and working a full-time job as an engineer for Mercedes-Benz, Schuble enjoys her English bulldog, playing cello and restoring her home.
Major Achievements
- 2009: World Champion 500 Time Trial and 3K pursuit Manchester, England
- 2009: World record 500 TT set at IPC Cycling National Championships, Manchester, England
- 2009: World Champion, Road Race (CP4/LC2) UCI Paracycling Road World Championships, Bogogno, Italy
- 2009: Silver medal Road Time Trial (CP4/LC2) UCI Paracycling Road World Championships, Bogogno, Italy
- 2009: National Champion Road Time Trial, US Paralympic National Road Championship, Bend, Ore.
- 2009: Alabama State Champion in criterium for cat 1,2,3,4 women
- 2009: National Champion 3K Pursuit US Paralympic National Track Cycling Championship, Carson, Calif.
- 2009: National Champion 500 TT US Paralympic National Track Cycling Championship Carson, Calif.
- 2009: Paralympic World Cup Manchester England and Disability Grand Prix Newport, Wales set unofficial world records in 500 TT, 3K Pursuit, and flying 200M.
- 2009: Alabama State Champion for Road Race for Cat 1,2
- 2008: Alabama State Champion for Road Race
- 2008: 1st place in both the 500 and 3K pursuit North and South Carolina state championship and US Cycling elite qualifier at Mellowdrome in Ashiville, NC
- 2008: World Record and Paralympic Record holder for the 3K Pursuit set at Paralympics Beijing, China Sept 2008
- 2008: Gold medal, 500m Time Trial (LC 1-2 / CP 4); silver medal, Individual Time Trial LC 1 / LC 2 / CP 4; silver medal, Individual Pursuit (LC 1-2 / CP 4) - Paralympic Games, Beijing, China
- 2008: Three gold medals (500m, 3K, Road Time Trials) - U.S. Paralympics Cycling National Championships, Colorado Springs, Colo. and Morrison, Colo.
- 2007: World Champion, Time Trial and Road Race; Silver medal, 3K Pursuit - IPC Cycling World Championships, Bordeaux, France
- 2007: Gold medal, Road Time Trial - U.S. Paralympics Road Cycling National Championships, Denver, Colo.
- 2007: Gold medal, Road Time Trial - Alabama State Championships, Sproutt, Ala.
