Evelyn Stevens

Do you know Evelyn?
Many people recognize Emilia Fahlin, but it seems Evelyn Stevens is not drawing as much attention as Emilia.

Emilia. She's blond. She's Swedish. She's a cyclist. Did I mention she's blond?

Don't get me wrong. I think Emilia is an awesome cyclist. She's 2009-2011 Swedish time trial champion, and she's only 21. 3 national championship win at age of 21 is pretty impressive.
I'm mentioning Emilia here because they are teammates and I saw many people talking about Emilia, but no one really said much about Evelyn. Evelyn is more intriguing to me because she has a very unusual history as a professional athlete.
Go to her wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Stevens

She's 28 years old, but her record starts in 2008, when she was 25. Plus, this 2008 record is not even professional (Cat 3/4 means she's starting out). Considering most pro cyclists start as junior and they show some results in their early 20's already, winning record starting at age of 25 seems a bit odd.

Then again, she's US time trial champion in 2010 and 2011. I'm sure she'll win the championship race this year again (I'll explain what time trial is some other time. Google it if you can't wait).
Hmm... wait. She started at 25 and 2 years later she's US champion? Really?

Evelyn used to work in finance on Wall Street and she discovered her talent rather later.
This article is her story on Wall Street Journal.

She's a top US cyclist now, but I hope to see her becoming a world champion in near future.
She's with Team Specialized-Lululemon now (formerly known as Team HTC-Highroad).
This video is not the really about her, but she's in it. So, here it is.