Sonja Evers joins C3-Sollay.com, Swaps one Black and Blue Kit for another

2008 may well be remembered as the Year of the Mid-Atlantic Women's Elite Teams. The latest squad to squad to add some serious horsepower to its ranks is the C3-Sollay.com Women's Elite Team, or The Chicks in Black. Today the team announces its newest roster addition Sonja Evers, who swaps her blue and black Vanderkitten kit for the C3-Sollay.com black and blue. It would be too easy to make the obvious joke about Sonja's old cycling shoes matching her new kit, so of course I won't.

A former professional MTB racer, Sonja has been road racing fewer than 3 years and has already accumulated an impressive palmares which is a testament to her versatility: top 5s in the Women's Elite races at Strasburg and Jefferson Cup this season, a win in 2007 in the Highway to Heaven Hill Climb, 2nd place at the Boonsboro TT, and total dominance of the Women's Cat 3 field at 'Toona last year as well, with wins in the crit, RR and the overall.

Sonja's signing comes hot on the heels of another C3-Sollay addition. Earlier this week Christina Briseno made the move from Route 1 Velo. Should she ever decide to race as a Cat 4 man, it is speculated that Briseno might well return to the red swarm. Both Christina and Sonja make their Chicks in Black debut at the Fort Ritchie Criterium this weekend.

The C3-Sollay.com 2008 Chicks in Black:
Janet Olney  (cat 2)
Beth  Mason (cat 1)
Heidi von Teitenberg (cat 2)
Diane Grim (cat 2)
Lorraine Lipfert (cat 2)
Sonja Evers (cat 2)
Lisa Vible (cat 2)
Elizabeth Harlow (cat 3)
Christina Briseno (cat 3)