EF Education–Tibco–SVB is a former women's professional cycling team based in the United States that competed in elite road bicycle racing. The team's main sponsors were EF Education First, TIBCO Software and Silicon Valley Bank. The owner was Linda Jackson, a former professional cyclist.

Team history Before its demise in 2023, Team EF Education–Tibco–SVB was the longest running women's professional cycling team in North America and traced its roots back to the Palo Alto Bicycles Women's (PABW) team. The team was created by Stanford MBA and investment banker, Linda Jackson. Jackson left investment banking in the early 90s to pursue her dream of becoming an Olympian. After becoming Canada's National Champion in 1995, Jackson was selected to represent Canada in the time trial and road race at the 1996 Atlanta Games. She went on to win the bronze medal at the 1996 World Championship Road Race in Lugano, Switzerland and accumulated numerous Canadian national championship titles in the road race and time trial. Cycling gave Jackson so much personally, that when she retired from the sport, she knew she wanted to help other women pursue their cycling aspirations.

Jackson became involved with PABW on a coaching basis in 2004, directed the team in 2005 and then added TIBCO as a sponsor in 2005 in order to help the team grow from a local racing team to a national-level team. Racing as PABW powered by TIBCO in 2006, the team finished the year ranked 36th overall in North America, up from 60th overall the year before. The following year, Jackson added Silicon Valley Bank as a sponsor. Jackson also created the Silicon Valley Cycling Foundation; a 501c3 formed to help develop promising female cyclists into top international competitors. The team soon rose to the top of the North American peloton and then began an expansion into International racing.

In 2008, the Team won both the National Road Race and Criterium (Brooke Miller) and was ranked 4th overall in North America. In 2009, the team became the top team in North America, won the National Road Race (Meredith Miller) and was named Team of the Year by VeloNews. In 2010, the team expanded to racing in Europe. In 2012, Team TIBCO won the National Road Race for the third time in five years with Megan Guarnier. In 2013 and 2014 the team repeated as the top team in North America. In 2015 Silicon Valley Bank became a co-title sponsor and the team added significantly more international events to its race calendar.

In 2017, the Team added four more National Championships to its tally with both Íngrid Drexel (Mexico) and Nicolle Bruderer (Guatemala) scoring double wins in the road race and time trial. 2018 started off with yet another national championship win; this time with new recruit Shannon Malseed winning the Australia National championship road race. In 2019, the team won the Australian national road race championship again, this time with new recruit Sarah Gigante. In 2020, Gigante won another national championship title, this time winning the Australian national time trial championships.

In 2022, the team joined the UCI Women's World Tour and became known as EF Education–Tibco–SVB. During that season, Emma Langley secured overall victory in the 2022 Joe Martin Stage Race after winning the stage 3 time trial, and the team successfully defending the jersey through the final day's criterium stage.

In 2023, Alison Jackson won Paris–Roubaix Femmes in a sprint finish after the break stayed away from the chasing pack – with the team describing the win as the biggest in their history.

At the end of 2023 both SVB and Tibco stopped their sponsorship. EF Education then announced a new women's team (). Veronica Ewers was announced as signing for the new team. In August 2023 it was officially confirmed that the team will disband at the end of 2023.

Final team roster

Major wins

2008 United States National Road Race Championships, Brooke Miller 2009 United States National Road Race Championships, Meredith Miller 2010 Sprints classification Tour de l'Aude Cycliste Féminin, Brooke Miller Stage 4 Cascade Cycling Classic, Jo Kiesanowski Stage 2 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Ruth Corset Gloucester Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller Providence Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Amanda Miller 2011 Overall UCI Track World Cup (Beijing) Omnium, Tara Whitten Individual Pursuit, Tara Whitten Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, Megan Guarnier Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller Iowa City Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller Los Angeles Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller Los Angeles Cyclo-cross, Meredith Miller 2012 Prologue The Exergy Tour, Tara Whitten 2013 Overall Joe Martin Stage Race, Claudia Häusler Prologue, Claudia Häusler Stage 6 Nature Valley Grand Prix, Claudia Häusler Stage 1 Cascade Cycling Classic, Claudia Häusler Chrono Gatineau, Shelley Olds Madison Cup (Points race), Rushlee Buchanan Challenge International sur piste (Points race), Jasmin Glaesser Challenge International sur piste (Scratch), Rushlee Buchanan Overall Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile – Memorial Michela Fanini, Claudia Häusler Saint Louis Cyclo-cross, Amanda Miller 2014 Tour of America's Dairyland – Giro d'Grafton, Samantha Schneider Overall Cascade Cycling Classic, Lauren Stephens Mountains classification, Andrea Dvorak Prologue, Stages 1 & 2, Lauren Stephens Stage 3, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok Stage 4, Jo Kiesanowski 2015 Stage 4 (ITT) Tour Femenino de San Luis, Lauren Stephens Mountains classification Women's Tour of New Zealand, Joanne Hogan Overall Joe Martin Stage Race, Lauren Stephens Stage 1 (ITT), Lauren Stephens Stage 3 (ITT) Tour of the Gila, Lauren Stephens Points classification Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska, Lauren Stephens Stage 5, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok Stage 2 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lauren Stephens Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Kristabel Doebel-Hickok 2016 Stage 4 (ITT) Tour Femenino de San Luis, Lauren Stephens Stage 4 Joe Martin Stage Race, Lauren Stephens 2017 Stage 2 Tour of the Gila, Lex Albrecht Chrono Gatineau, Lauren Stephens Winston-Salem Cycling Classic, Lauren Stephens Stage 2 Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Lex Albrecht Stage 4 (ITT) Thüringen Rundfahrt der Frauen, Lauren Stephens Combativity award Stage 5 Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lex Albrecht 2018 Stage 5 Redlands Bicycle Classic, Emma Grant Stage 3 Valley of the Sun Stage Race, Kendall Ryan Stage 1 Tour of California, Kendall Ryan Overall Armed Forces Association Cycling Classic, Kendall Ryan Clarendon Cup, Kendall Ryan 2019 Stage 2 Joe Martin Stage Race, Shannon Malseed Overall Tour of the Gila, Brodie Chapman Stages 1 & 5, Brodie Chapman White Spot / Delta Road Race, Alison Jackson Stage 2 Tour de Feminin-O cenu Českého Švýcarska, Brodie Chapman Stage 2 Women's Tour of Scotland, Alison Jackson 2020 Overall Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche, Lauren Stephens Points classification, Lauren Stephens Stage 4, Kristen Faulkner 2021 Stage 1 Ladies Tour of Norway, Kristen Faulkner Stages 2 & 3 (ITT) Joe Martin Stage Race, Emma Langley 2022 Mountains classification Tour of the Gila Kristabel Doebel-Hickok Team classification Stages 1 & 3 (ITT), Kristabel Doebel-Hickok Stage 2 Grand Prix Elsy Jacobs, Veronica Ewers Overall 2022 Joe Martin Stage Race, Emma Langley Stage 3 (ITT), Emma Langley Clasica Femenina Navarra, Veronica Ewers 2023 1st Paris–Roubaix Femmes, Alison Jackson

National and world champions

2008 USA Road Race, Brooke Miller 2009 USA Road Race, Meredith Miller 2010 Australia Road Race, Ruth Corset 2011 World Track (Omnium), Tara Whitten Canada Track (Omnium), Tara Whitten 2012 USA Road Race, Megan Guarnier USA Track (Pursuit), Lauren Hall 2015 USA Criterium, Kendall Ryan 2017 Mexican Road Race, Íngrid Drexel Mexican Time Trial, Íngrid Drexel Guatemala Time Trial, Nicolle Bruderer Guatemala Road Race, Nicolle Bruderer 2018 Australia Road Race, Shannon Malseed Guatemala Time Trial, Nicolle Bruderer Mexican Time Trial, Íngrid Drexel Oceania Road Race, Sharlotte Lucas 2019 Oceania Road Race, Sharlotte Lucas 2020 Australia Time Trial, Sarah Gigante 2021 Australia Time Trial, Sarah Gigante USA Road Race, Lauren Stephens USA Cyclo-cross, Clara Honsinger 2022 Israel Time Trial, Omer Shapira Israel Road Race, Omer Shapira USA Road Race, Emma Langley

2023 Canada Road Race, Alison Jackson

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