The Lupus Racing Team continued to rise through the US peloton in the offseason by signing Slovenian strongman and 2015 Tour of Utah stage winner Jure Kocjan for the 2016 season.
Kocjan, who comes to the US team from two years with SmartStop, will add finishing firepower and WorldTour experience to the team next year during Lupus Racing's second season on the Continental level.
“We're very excited to have him,” said team General Manager Brendan Sullivan. “We spent much of September and October trying to figure out who would end up being on the sharp end of the closeout, and we're delighted with the guy we ended up getting.”
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The team also added Chad Beyer, Barry Miller and Nicolae Tanovitchii to the 2016 roster. Beyer, a seven-year pro who has ridden for BMC, Champion System and 5-hour Energy, signed with the team in August. Miller, a 27-year-old from Massachusetts, was fourth at the the Reading 120 in September, while Tanovicthii, a 21-year-old Moldovan who rode with Jelly Belly-Maxxis last year, led the Cascade Cycling Classic in July for several stages.
“The objective all along has been a little bit of the Jack Welch, you know, to keep the strongest riders and then each year add five or six stronger riders,” Sullivan said. “ We hope to secure invites to the major North American races this year. Hopefully strengthening our team will at least support our chances of that. But that's really been the objective.”
Lupus was headlined this season by multiple Elite national champion Mike Olheiser, who will return next year along with Winston David and Evan Murphy.
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