INSIGHT Magazine April Issue | Page 78

Meet LAUREN HALL United Healthcare Lauren Hall returns to the Alabama Cycling Classic to defend her title at the Sunny King Criterium. Hall won gold last year with the support of her teammates on the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Women’s Team. “It’s really important to me, as the team captain, to kind of have a nurturing environment and a really team-oriented culture on our team just because, one person stands on the podium but you know it took the whole team to get there,” Hall says. The Mississippi native has been racing professionally since 2010, “I do remember going to this race as an amateur and doing the amateur racing in the morning and staying in the afternoon to watch the pros.” Now, Hall has the opportunity to race her way back to the Sunny King podium. In describing how this race stands out to her, Hall says, “One, to go back to this race as a professional and two, being in the South. My mom and dad came last year and I was kind of overwhelmed