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Jame Carney

Coaching Highlights at Piedmont (2016-Present)
- 12 National Championships
- Varsity Division II Team Overall (2018)
- Women's National Crit Champion (2018)
- Women's Road Omnium Champion (2018)
- Women's National Road Champion (2017)
- Women's National Crit Champion (2017)
- Women's Omniium Champion (2017)
- Women's Individual Pursuit (2016)
- Women's Time Trial, 500m (2016)
- Women's Points Race (2016)
- Women's Scratch Race (2016)
- Women's Sprints (2016)
- Women's Sprints (2016)
- Women's Omnium (2016)
 
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Professional Coaching Career 
Cheerwine Professional Women's Cycling Team
RIDECLEAN/PatentIt.com Women's Cycling Team
C.A.R.E. for Cycling Elite Women's Cycling Team
Colavita-Fine Cooking Women's Professional Cycling Team
 
Professional Career 
Two-time Olympic Qualifier (1992, 2000)
Posted best Olympic finish in 2000 Points race finishing 5th
Three-time Pan American Games Medalist (1991, 1999, 2003)
Two-Time UCI World Cup Track Champion (2001, 2002)
Elite National Track Champion 22 times
10-time Worlds Team Member
 
Jame Carney enters his 10th season with the Piedmont Cycling program after leading Piedmont to immediate success at the national level as the teams claimed 12 national titles in the program's first three years. The two-time Olympian, having finished fifth in the Points Race in the 2000 games in Sydney, brings world-wide recognition to the program as one of the most well-known coaching names in the sport around the globe.
 
Carney was tasked with beginning the cycling program at Piedmont and his cyclists rode to a hot start claiming six national championships in 2016 accounting for half the total championships for Piedmont thus far. With nearly 30 years of cycling coaching experience, Carney's hire brought instant credibility to the Piedmont program, as he has most recently served as the Tactical Track Coach for USA Cycling at the 2015 Pan Am Championships and World Cups. 
 
Since 2012, Carney has served on the Board of Directors for USA Cycling as an Athlete Representative, providing support and guidance in his area of expertise while also assisting with the creation of short and long-term goals to achieve the organization's overall mission.
 
Additionally, Carney has spent the same time period as USA Cycling's representative on the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) Athlete Advisory Council (AAC) communicating the concerns and interests of USA Cycling athletes to the governing body. Carney also served on the AAC's World Anti-Doping Agency task force, which helped shape the revisions to the new WADA code that is seen today.

Beginning in 2008, Carney honed his coaching skills further by directing four of the most elite women's teams in the country, starting with the Cheerwine Professional Women's Cycling Team, which finished as the #1 ranked women's team in the U.S. at the end of the season.

In 2011-12, Carney directed and managed the RIDECLEAN/PatentIt.com Women's Cycling Team, guiding that squad to USA CRITSSeries Team (2012) and Individual (2011 & 2012) overall titles, as well as the National CriteriumCalendar (NCC) Individual overall title in 2012. In this capacity, Carney also scouted and recruited new team members in addition to the overall management of the championship squad.

Carney spent 2013 with C.A.R.E. for Cycling Elite Women's Cycling Team, helping them to NCC Team and Individual titles as well. Additionally, his 2013 team won the USA CRITSSeries Team and Individual overall titles. Most recently, Carney spent 2014 leading the Colavita-Fine Cooking Women's Professional Cycling Team to the NCC Team and Individual overall titles, his fourth straight championship experience as the coach of a women's team in the U.S.

His coaching success should come as no surprise given Carney's pedigree in the sport as a cyclist himself, as he twice earned a trip to the Olympic Games, the first time in 1992 in Barcelona before returning again in 2000 at the Sydney Games. Carney posted his best Olympic finish in Sydney, finishing 5th in the Points Race.

Carney was also a three-time Pan American Games Medalist, earning Silver in the Team Pursuit in the 1991 Havana games before taking his second Silver Medal in the 1999 Winnipeg games (Madison). In 2003, Carney added a Bronze Medal in Madison to his case, earning the finish at the Santo Domingo games. 

Also a two-time UCI World Cup Track Champion (2001-Points Race, 2002-Scratch Race), Carney has been an Elite National Track Champion 22 times and is also a 10-time Worlds Team Member, continuously demonstrating world class form as a rider himself.
 
Carney is a 2004 graduate of Fort Lewis College with a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science with a Coaching Concentration. Carney's collegiate cycling experience while at Fort Lewis was undoubtedly among the best, as the program has become the gold standard in collegiate racing, winning more than 20 national championships in various divisions since the program's inception in 1994. 

Last updated 6/25