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Meet Park City local Addisyn Lundberg, a high school junior excelling in mountain biking.

Addi, as her friends and family call her, grew up with an outdoorsy family that valued spending time together, whether it was river rafting, hiking, skiing, or mountain biking. When Addi was around three, she started riding her bike with her parents in Colorado. In 2011, the Lundbergs moved to Park City, wanting to provide their family with the greatest outdoor opportunities. Here, surrounded by an abundance of trails, Addi’s love for mountain biking grew.

Addi began racing at the age of 10 with the Summit Bike Team. Many of these early races, such as the Intermountain Cup series, were just for fun. The Lundbergs would make a weekend out of it, traveling to the race venue and camping. Despite Addi’s early success at these races, where she won in the Junior High category, she didn’t see herself as a competitor—at least not yet.

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In the summer after her 6th-grade year, Addi joined the Park City Mountain Bike Team, embracing the opportunity to ride with kids her own age. She won in the Advanced Girls category for both of her Junior Devo years. Just as she was flourishing in these Junior races, her father, Wil, passed away unexpectedly. Wil lovingly supported Addi on and off the bike, and his memory lives through WILS, a family foundation built on Wil’s love for the outdoors. For more information, please visit www.wilsfoundation.org.

The following season, Addi began envisioning a future in bike racing. She joined ACCEL, a national-level youth development team geared towards race preparation outside of the high school season. With ACCEL’s support, she competed at Nationals in the 13–14 category at Winterpark, Colorado. The high altitude was challenging, particularly for the East Coast athletes, but Addi was able to place 7th among the top competitors in the nation, which was an eye-opening experience for her in the world of competitive bike racing.

Throughout the remainder of summer, Addi would continue to train with the Park City Mountain Bike Team. That fall, for Addi’s freshman season at the high school level, she petitioned to skip the Freshman category and go directly to Junior Varsity A (JVA), a move fairly uncommon in the bike-racing world. In JVA, she won all four of the regional races, allowing her to line up front row at States with a points-leader jersey. Two laps later, she found herself with an impressive 3rd-place State finish.

The following winter, Addi continued to put time into crosstraining with Skimo, or ski mountaineering, on the indoor trainer bike. That summer, she continued to race nationally with ACCEL and petitioned again for her 2024 high school season. As only a sophomore, she was placed on Varsity, the highest category for high school. For her junior year, she found early success at her first regional race at Soldier Hollow, where she placed 2nd in Varsity, then won the following three regional races. Again, she was front and center with the points-leader jersey, finishing 3rd against the strongest girls in Utah.

Following her successful freshman, sophomore, and junior seasons, Addi geared up this last winter with even more motivation to train to her fullest potential. During off-season, she rides twice a week with the Max Testa program, as well as on her own, to keep her legs moving through the winter. She also implements strength training at Park City Hospital with Andrew Fast, whom she partly credits to making her more explosive off the start line. This season is Addi’s first time participating in the 17–18 category, which offers a more competitive field and UCI points—and which can qualify racers for the Junior World Cup, along with prospects at the collegiate level and beyond.

Motivated by creating the strongest version of herself, Addi’s dedication to training has increased this season. She explains that unless she becomes ill, she sticks to the plan provided by her coach, riding six to seven days a week. She also has dialed in her nutrition and recovery routine, making sure to rest her legs before the next training session. To see if the work she’d been putting would translate to placement, she competed in Puerto Rico this past February. While snow was still flying in Park City, she took advantage of heat training by spending time after rides in saunas and steam-showers. She placed 5th at both the XCO (cross-country) and XCC (short-track) disciplines, and she took 6th place on the second day of the XCO. A few weeks later, she raced in Temecula, California, and achieved her best placement ever, 3rd, for the short-track discipline, and landed another 6th-place finish in the XCO.

As Addi was preparing for another race in Arkansas, she was invited to the US Junior Team Boot Camp, after having placed in the top five in the 17–18 category. She went on to race in Arkansas with a 7th-place finish in XCO and XCC, and she came in 14th on the second day for the XCO. She explains that the competition here, with athletes across the globe, is potentially what she can expect with racing outside of the nation. For four days at the US Junior Team Camp in Bentonville, Arkansas, she was able to work with fellow athletes and coaches to improve climbing and descending skills, as well as compete in a practice race. With more confidence coming off the Team Camp, she was able to enjoy her best UCI race yet in Wisconsin, placing 2nd at the XCO and 3rd at the XCC, even while being positive with Flu B.

Addi’s 2025 breakthrough season isn’t done yet, with more UCI races across the United States this summer. Also, the work she’s put in is paying off beyond the podium; recently, she was given the chance to train in Europe, in the hope of preparing for what her future could potentially look like. She is scheduled to leave mid-August to race in France and Switzerland and will return to the States in early September.

This amazing opportunity, sadly, is at the same time as the high school fall season, so Addi will most likely be missing her last season. But, as a captain on the Park City Mountain Bike Team, she plans to support her teammates when she can, as well as continue being a leader by example. From simply riding with her family to being invited to race internationally, Addi Lundberg is the next generation of cycling.