Nicole Freedman
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| Born | May 21, 1972 Wellesley, Massachusetts |
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| Role | Rider |
Nicole Freedman (born May 21, 1972) is an American Olympic cyclist.[1]
Early life and career
[edit]Freedman, who is Jewish, was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts.[1][2][3][4] She attended MIT, and then Stanford University.[1][4] Among the teams she has competed on are Shaklee (1997–1998), Charles Schwab (1999–2000), Credit Suisse First Boston (2001), RONA (2002), and Basis (2003–).[1]
In 1997, she was a US National Team member.[1] She was a member of the US cycling team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia (and competed in the 119.7 km women's road race), and won the 64-mile (103 km) US National Championship Road Race.[1][2] In 2001, she won the US National Championship Criterium. In 2003, she came in second in the Israel National Championship road race.[1]
In 2001, she was honored by the US Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.[5]
In 2007, Freedman became head of the "Boston Bikes" initiative for the City of Boston under Mayor Thomas Menino.[6][7]
On April 3, 2012, Freedman announced that she would become the executive director of Maine Huts & Trails, transitioning into the role that April and replacing David Herring as the second full-time Executive Director for the organization.[8]
Nicole returned to the position of Director of the Boston Bikes program in January 2013.[9]
Freedman resigned from Boston Bikes in March 2015 pending a move to Seattle, Washington.[10]
Subsequently, she became the Chief of Active Transportation & Partnerships in the Seattle Department of Transportation per their organizational chart of July 2015[11] She was located in the Transit and Mobility group and worked on the Puget Sound Bike Share initiative as well as a new Summer Parkways program.[12]
On September 12, 2016, Nicole was appointed to be Director of Transportation for the City of Newton, MA.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Kristy Scrymgeour (November 6, 2003). "An interview with Nicole Freedman; Israel, here I come!". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^ a b Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by day in Jewish sports history. ISBN 9780881259698. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^ Seligman, Ruth A. (October 4, 2005). "Jewish Women's Calendar Celebrates Sports Stars". Women's eNews. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^ a b "Freedman, Nicole". Jewsinsports.org. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
- ^ "Jewish Sports Hall of Fame". Jewishsports.org. March 25, 2001. Archived from the original on February 27, 2010. Retrieved October 31, 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Boston Bikes, City of Boston website
- ^ "Nicole Freedman: Boston's new bike czar", activeliving.com
- ^ "Main Huts & Trails". Mainehuts.org. April 4, 2012. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
- ^ "Nicole Freedman Returns as Director of Boston Bikes", Press Release, City of Boston, Mayor's Office, January 3, 2013
- ^ "Boston's top biking official leaving for Seattle - the Boston Globe". The Boston Globe.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.seattle.gov/documents/departments/seattlebicycleadvisoryboard/minutes/sbabjuneminutesfinal15.pdf [bare URL PDF]
External links
[edit]- Nicole Freedman at Cycling Archives (archived)
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Jewish American sportspeople
- Stanford University alumni
- American female cyclists
- American cycling road race champions
- People from Wellesley, Massachusetts
- Olympic cyclists for the United States
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- 20th-century American Jews
- 20th-century American sportswomen