Alexis’ heart beats for racing. This year marks her 12th season as a professional racer and in that time, she has won Drentse Acht van Westerveld and podiumed at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Dwars door Vlaanderen, and Ronde van Drenthe. The American loves the spring classics in particular.

In her first season with EF Education-Oatly, Alexis plans to put her years of experience to work both as a road captain and as a mentor to her teammates. From victories to burnout, injuries to comebacks, Alexis has seen it all and she’s eager to help guide her teammates toward long and healthy careers.

When Alexis is stateside, she’s either playing with her two dogs, snuggling her cat, or taking care of her garden.

At just 20, Alex’s life has already taken unexpected turns. She once thought her life path would focus on engineering and had the opportunity to study it at university. Instead, she decided to follow her dream and become a professional bike racer.

Alex has always been an athlete. She was an avid speed skater growing up in Calgary and found track cycling when she was looking for a summer sport to complement skating. She loved that both sports demanded so much of her, but once she realized that she could train and race on the road and not be stuck on an oval all the time, she was hooked on road racing. Growing up so close to the Rocky Mountains, Alex also took up mountain biking and cyclocross.

As a junior, she was third at the Ronde van Vlaanderen Juniors, won the Canadian junior crit national title, and went back-to-back as the Canadian junior road champion.

In 2025, her first season as a pro, Alex showed her dedication to both her teammates and to her development. She won the bunch sprint at the Canadian road race national championship to finish in second place. When Alex had some time off from racing last summer, she went to Belgium to compete in a series of crits and road races to further hone her skills.

Teenager Auke De Buysser is an up-and-comer to watch all season. She loves the spring classics and any race that ends in a tough sprint or a punchy climb. These days, Auke is focused on the road but she grew up racing on the track as well.

Last year, Auke was the Belgian junior road champion and earned seven wins and five additional podiums, including top 10 placings in the junior editions of Gent-Wevelgem and the Tour of Flanders. This season is her first as a professional racer and Auke expects to focus on smaller races to help her transition to elite level racing. Her goals for the 2026 season are to support her teammates and to learn as much as she can from them.

Off the bike, you can find Auke at home, playing with her family’s two golden retrievers in her yard or studying for her degree in applied psychology.

When Caoimhe and her sister were little, her dad’s cycling club hosted a youth turbo session. Caoimhe and her sister had fun and soon after decided to try racing. The pair had a blast and Caoimhe was hooked. Since then, she’s worked her way up through club and continental teams to earn her spot in the sport’s top level.

Caoimhe cut her teeth racing in Belgium and to this day, she gets an unrivaled thrill when she experiences the mad rush of the peloton and the short, punchy climbs. Naturally, she loves the classics.

This is Caoimhe’s first season with EF Education-Oatly and her first in the WorldTour. Her goals for the season are to continue to grow and develop, while supporting her teammates.

Caoimhe’s resilience and patience have served her well as a professional cyclist. She’s learned that if she continues to put in the time – whether it’s training, recovering, or preparing – the results will come. Stepping up to the WorldTour this season is proof.

She enjoys learning and has a bachelor’s degree in food science. Caoimhe is a keen baker and has perfected her sourdough technique.

Colby Simmons stepped up to the WorldTour from EF Education-Aevolo in 2025 when he made his pro debut at the Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix.

Born and raised in Durango, Colorado, USA, cycling is in Colby’s DNA. He started riding with his brother, who is now a WorldTour pro, and soon fell in love with the freedom, speed, and adrenaline that he discovered out on the road. As soon as he started racing, Colby’s natural talent shone.

He is an explosive rider, who does well on punchy climbs and in the cobbled classics, where races might be decided at any moment. Strong rides at the Tour of Rhodes, where he finished third on the overall, and Coppi e Bartali, where he raced alongside his WorldTour teammates, proved Colby’s strength and his skills and earned him his spot on EF Education-EasyPost. Right away, he showed that he belonged, guiding his teammates to the front of the peloton during hectic sprint finishes with the cool head of a seasoned pro.

When Colby isn’t racing, he gets his adrenaline fix on skis. He loves touring the mountains of Colorado and heads into the backcountry in search of powder turns whenever he is home in the winter.

During the racing season, he lives in Girona, Spain, where he trains with a good group of mates and has fully embraced the city’s café culture.

In his first year in EF Education-EasyPost pink, Danish classics star Kasper Asgreen added a Giro d’Italia stage win to his impressive list of victories, which includes the Ronde van Vlaanderen, E3 SaxoBank Classic, and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, as well as a stage at the Tour de France and four Danish time trial titles.

Kasper joined our team because he was impressed with our squad’s attacking style. That’s how Kasper loves to race, too – when the peloton explodes, and he has to make split-second decisions on the fly, pick his moment to go, and then ride with everything he has to the line, he comes into his own. That’s why he loves the spring classics and hard breakaways.

Kasper learned how to race when he was a kid in Denmark, where he started out riding for the local club in Kolding, the small university city where he now lives with his wife and which he will always call home. Before he took up cycling, Kasper rode horses. From the age of four, he competed in dressage. He still draws on his childhood equestrian experience now as a pro bike racer. It taught him discipline: the value of showing up and putting in the work, no matter what.

Bike racing was tough for him at first. Kasper didn’t win a race for his first three years. He loved the sport nonetheless and was soon making fast progress. Now, he is one of the best one-day racers in the world.

Still, Kasper’s love of the sport is what drives him. Being a pro comes with pressures and hard times, but he knows that it is a privilege to be a bike racer. He races better when he is enjoying the sport, and he enjoys the sport most on a winning team.

American powerhouse Luke Lamperti packs a fast sprint and all of the toughness of a seasoned classics racer. Going into his third year in the WorldTour and his first with EF Education-EasyPost, the 23-year-old from Santa Rosa, California, already has six wins to his name, including a stage victory at the Czech Tour. Luke has podiumed in Belgian one-day races like Danilith Nokere Koers and the Bredene Koksijde Classic and dreams of winning monuments.

Luke raced motocross bikes before he switched to pedal power. As a kid, he started cycling to get stronger for dirt bike races and was thrilled by the freedom he discovered exploring his home roads. Luke’s motocross skills, determination, and strength led him to the front of the USA’s most competitive youth races. He was soon competing for one of the top junior teams in the country and traveling to Europe to race with the American national team. Results like his top 10 at Paris-Roubaix Juniors earned him a spot on Trinity Racing, where he rode with future EF Education-EasyPost teammates Ben Healy, Max Walker, and Lukas Nerurkar.

Luke is the kind of rider who can go for results on a wide range of terrain, from hilly, windy spring classics to summer stage races. His favorite races will always be the classics, though. He comes into his own on windswept cobbles and can’t wait to smash it up Belgium’s bergs with our classics squad alongside fellow Americans, Neilson Powless and Colby Simmons.

To achieve his bike racing dreams, Luke knows he needs to focus on the process. With our team, he is confident that he will have all of the support he needs to compete with the very best.

Madis Mihkels’ favorite races are the northern classics. The Estonian champion loves competing in the wind and muck in Belgium and France and flies over the cobblestones. In 2024, he raced into the top-ten at Paris-Roubaix. Last year, in his first season in EF Education-EasyPost pink, Madis finished third at the Classic Brugge-De Panne. He thrives at high speed, brushing elbows with his competitors on the roughest, smallest roads. But Madis' ambitions will never stop, even after he's rounded the last corner of the Roubaix velodrome. He wants to go for wins throughout the year. One-day races, stages in the biggest tours—he wants to cross their finish lines first. He has already won stages at the Deutschland Tour and the Tour of Estonia. He has ridden the Giro and the Vuelta, finished on the podium at the European championships, and raced the Olympics. Now, he wants to step up his game.

Madis honed his speed on the BMX track, where he raced until he was 15. He's always been an athlete. He started competitive swimming at four years old and did all kinds of sports when he was a kid. He was pretty good at them all, but it was on a bike that he started to dream of being great.

Madis balances his need for speed and rough-and-tumble racing with a quiet life in Estonia. He was born and raised in Tartu and, despite his home country's harsh winters, still opts to live there, though he has recently moved to Tallinn, the capital. He enjoys spinning out into the forests on his bike, passing lakes and rivers on quiet, smooth, nearly car-free roads. Before the thermometer dips too far below freezing and the snow plows come out, he can always escape somewhere warm. As soon as the ice is gone, he wants to go home, where he can fish for pike in fresh, clean water.

At just 24 years old, Nina is only getting warmed up. Now in her fourth season as a pro racer, she is a budding classics rider and she loves a hard day of racing in challenging weather conditions. Nina loves to race aggressively and relishes a chance to spend the day in the break.

This is her second year with EF Education-Oatly and Nina has shown time and again that she is a valuable teammate, always ready to take one more pull to help position her team leader and armed with a witty observation to share at the dinner table.

Nina has many fond memories of spending the summer with her family in their camper van as they followed the men’s edition of the Tour de France. That’s where she first got the idea to ride - she wondered how fast she could make it up the same iconic climbs she visited while watching the Tour. Now, it’s Nina’s turn to race up the climbs at the grand tours and inspire the next generation.

Her ideal vacation is anything to keep her outdoors and active. She adores hiking, backpacking, and bikepacking. Nina is currently in her second year of studying for her bachelor’s degree in psychology, so vacation time is admittedly limited these days!

With three sisters in the peloton and two former elite athletes for parents, Mirre Knaven grew up in an active household. The first sport she was involved in was gymnastics but when her oldest sister decided to swap gymnastics for cycling, then seven-year-old Mirre followed and she hasn’t looked back since.

Though she’s raced mountain bikes and cyclocross, road cycling is what really captured her heart. She still enjoys doing a handful of cyclocross races in the off season just to mix things up, but she is happiest spending her winters escaping the Belgian weather and heading to sunny Mallorca.

Mirre is still developing and discovering her strengths at this early stage in her career. She joined our team mid-way through the 2024 season after earning her first professional victory. The joy she felt that day stemmed from the perseverance and grit she used to take that win. She lives for the classics season when both of her all-time favorite races – Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix – happen. She dreams of winning one (or both!) of these monuments one day.

The passion and dedication that she pours into cycling, she also devotes to music. She’s been a drummer since she was a child, taught herself the piano during Covid, and started playing guitar a couple of years ago. If she weren’t a full-time athlete, Mirre would be a musician.