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Early Life
[edit]Janie Eickhoff, graduated from Los Alamitos High School in 1988. With many successes in a short period of time Eickhoff was inducted into the Los Alamitos High School Hall of Fame. Continuing her career at “Cal State Dominguez Hills" where Eickhoff would face many challenges. [1]
Approaching what would be the “...last victories are the women's individual pursuit during the World Junior Championships 1987 and the women's sprint during the World Junior Championships 1987. She competes in individual pursuit; points race and sprint." [2]
Eickhoff sustained a career ending injury that led her down a new road, a change of profession opened several doors when taking up cycling.[3] The 19-year-old qualified and won the “top kudos from the U.S. Cycling Federation."[4]
“Janie Eickhoff edged fellow American Mindee Mayfield by 0.15 seconds and took the women's 20-mile competition in the second leg of the International Cycle Road Race."[5]
Janie would then take on "...the world cycling championships," where "Eickhoff considering whether she should focus solely on cycling."[6]
Durning Eickhoff's victories there was still time to take up a separate hobby. “Speed skating was another one of those things Eickhoff drifted into. A lot of speed skaters train at the velodrome, and Eickhoff had heard of skater/bikers such as Sheila Young Ochowicz. So, she took up the sport-and this coming season will mark her third year on the speed skating national team...” the majority of her sports successes she dedicates to her father who went above and beyond at each given event. [7]
Early Sports
[edit]Eickhoff's career in cycling began after her freshman year of high school at Los Al High school. After recovering from a knee injury caused by soccer, Eickhoff took up cycling. It was Eickhoff's father who encouraged her to try cycling after the soccer
injury.[8] She began cycling in the sprint bicycle races. After only two years of cycling, Janie Eickhoff took first at the Junior World Championships in Italy for the 2000-meter individual pursuit. Eickhoff was focusing on too many sports at one time.
Eickhoff’s success in cycling and speed skating is because of her versatility. She’s also a sprinter who has endurance and cunning. [9] Her coaches--Levy and cycling coach Pat McDonough, both of whom she spends hours with on the phone getting
long-distance training advice--would each like to see her focus on one sport. If it had to be one, cycling would win. [10] She attempted Speed skating as well, became another one of those sports she drifted on too[4]
In 1986 Eickhoff took up the sport because of hearing other cyclist talk about it as they trained. She had saw this as a way to complement her riding. Mostly because of the leg training and having a small brake from cycling.[8] Within the next few years she had won the nation senior women's
short track speed skating championship at Cleveland[8]. According to her father she also knows pistol shooting[8]
Bicycle Career
[edit]Eickhoff began cycling in 1984. Her father George, got her a track bike and took her to cycling classes at the Encino Velodrome. She continued to take classes and tried out some racing. In the summer of 85 she won her first championship in the junior girls division. Two years later Eickhoff
won the national match sprint, point race, and individual pursuit plus the junior world sprint and individual pursuit.[4]
In cycling she was concentrated on sprinting, but plans her plans shift her focus toward the 3000 meter pursuit. Her coach said that opportunities for sprinters to compete are limited, and Eickhoff's the kind of athlete who likes to race often. [4]
Education and College Sports
[edit]Eickhoff attended Cal State Dominguez Hills for college education. During her freshman year there, she earned the title of Women's Amateur Cyclist of the year by the United States Cycling Federation. In the year 1990 Eickhoff officially switched from biking in sprint races to biking in
individual pursuit races. After this switch, Eickhoff earned eighth place at the World Championships. The next year, she moved her way up to second place at the same race.
She also beat the United States record for the Kilometer Time Trial with a time of 1:12:298. Eickhoff had taken the year 1997 off from cycling. After this break, she won the individual pursuit. "Overall Janie Eickhoff won ten U.S. National Titles in Pursuit, Time Trial and in the Points Race as well
as 6 medals at UCI World Championship events. She also won 2 gold medals at the Pan American games in the Pursuit and Points Race in 1995." [11]
Family Sports History
[edit]Eickhoff was not the only member of her family to take sports so heavily. Her father, George Eickhoff, and her Brother, Rick had been on the U.S. pistol shooting team. George had also raced cars. [8]
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Hall Of Fame
[edit]Janie Eickhoff was inducted in to two different hall of fames. The first was her high school Hall Of Fame. She was inducted after she graduated at "Los Alamitos High school". After high school she didn't stop there. [12]
Janie went further in her sports career, racking over nine career achievements. When inducted in to the "The 29th Annual U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame" in 2015, she had been recognized for her achievements.
Modern Post-1975 Competitor was the division she was placed in. (United States Bicycling Hall of Fame)
Achievements
[edit]1993, 94 World Championship – 3rd Place Track Pursuit[1]
1989, 91, 92 World Championship – 3rd Place Track Points race[1]
1991 World Championship – 2nd Place Track Pursuit[1]
1995 Pan American Games – 1st Place 3000 meter Pursuit[1]
1995 Pan American Games – 1st Place Points Race[1]
1990 Goodwill Games – 1st Place Individual Pursuit[1]
1988, 90, 92, 93, 94 National Track Championships – 1st Place Points Race[1]
1990, 91, 93, 94 National Track Championships – 1st Place Pursuit[1]
1991 Set U.S. Record for 1 Km Event, 1:12:298[1]
Reference
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j losaltv (2016-07-30). "Los Alamitos High School Hall of Fame – Janie Eickhoff ('88)". OUR Los Al TV. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ "Track Cycling - Janie Quigley-Eickhoff (United States)". www.the-sports.org. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ Davis Media Access (2015-12-22), 2015 USBHOF Inductee Janie Eickhoff Becker, retrieved 2022-04-11
- ^ a b c d Henry, Sara (May–June 1990). "Woman to watch: Janie Eickhoff, amateur cyclist of the year, moonlights as a speed skater".
- ^ "Janie Eickhoff Wins 20-Mile Cycle Race | The Seattle Times". archive.seattletimes.com. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
- ^ "Janie Eickhoff Wins 20-Mile Cycle Race | The Seattle Times". archive.seattletimes.com. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ^ Rasey, Jacob K.; Mincher, Jeanine; Michaliszyn, Sara F. (July 2020). "Maternal Fitness And Physical Activity Levels Decrease Infant Adiposity Up To 1 Year Of Age". Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. 52 (7S): 454. doi:10.1249/01.mss.0000678860.14863.24. ISSN 1530-0315.
- ^ a b c d e "Janie Eickhoff Likes Setting All of Her Wheels - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. ProQuest 280919950. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
- ^ Facebook; Twitter; options, Show more sharing; Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; Email; URLCopied!, Copy Link; Print (1989-10-13). "Janie Eickhoff Likes Setting All of Her Wheels Spinning". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
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has generic name (help) - ^ losaltv (2016-07-30). "Los Alamitos High School Hall of Fame – Janie Eickhoff ('88)". OUR Los Al TV. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
- ^ losaltv (2016-07-30). "Los Alamitos High School Hall of Fame – Janie Eickhoff ('88)". OUR Los Al TV. Retrieved 2022-04-11.