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Cheri Elliott (born April 17, 1970) was an American champion female bicycle motocross (BMX) racer in the 1980s, and a champion Downhill and Slalom mountain bike racer in the 1990s and early 2000s. During her BMX career, she spent most of her racing career on the national circuit with the Skyway Recreation factory team. She had a relatively short BMX career, but she is a four-time national champion and four-time world champion, including three consecutive National Number One girl-racer titles for the American Bicycle Association (ABA) from 1983 through 1985. She also held the regional UBR Number one girl racer title in 1982. She was the first female racer inducted into the ABA BMX Hall of Fame in 1989, and the first female BMX racer inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 2008. ==Biography== Elliott snow-skied when she was two years old. Elliott's BMX career lasted from 1980 until 1986, and saw a brief comeback in 1989. From an early age, she was not only dominant in the girls division of BMX (formerly called "Powder Puff"), but was also usually competitive with boys in her age group. An athletic strawberry blond with deep dimples when she smiled, Elliott was approximately five feet tall in the seventh grade, making her somewhat larger than most of the boys in her class at Will Rodgers Intermediate Junior High School and the boys at the BMX track. During her racing career—and while in the sixth grade of junior high school—Elliott was asked to play "first string"' on the varsity senior high school Basketball team. She helped that high school team win a championship.〔''Super BMX'' July 1983 Vol. 10 No. 7 pg. 45〕 She continued pursuing other sports during her BMX career, and after leaving the sport in 1986. Elliott was named Most Valuable Player in both basketball and volleyball during her senior year of high school. She also played in her college freshman year at the University of the Pacific. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cheri Elliott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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