Alice Hoskins Awarded She Sends x Strava Strive for More Grant
Alice Hoskins, a recent graduate of Miller School of Albemarle, has been awarded the She Sends x Strava Strive for More Grant, a national award that supports young women pursuing elite level competition in off road cycling. The grant will help cover essential costs such as equipment, coaching, and race travel as Hoskins continues her development as a U23 mountain bike racer.
Alice Hoskins has been racing mountain bikes for most of her life. She first discovered the sport as a third grader with the Cutaway Youth Mountain Bike Team, where early rides quickly turned into long days on the trail and a growing interest in competition. What began as hobby soon became a passion, and by the time she reached middle school, Alice was already a familiar presence in the VAHS MTB Series and the Virginia Interscholastic Cycling League.
Riding with female teammates on the Miller School trails.
That early foundation carried her steadily forward. Over the years, Alice developed into one of the most accomplished junior mountain bikers in the country, earning multiple selections to the USA National Team and competing in UCI World Cup races. Her progress reflected not only talent, but patience and consistency, built season by season.
Now a first year student at the University of Colorado Boulder, Alice continues to balance academics with an ambitious racing schedule. This spring and summer mark a major step in her development as she joins the Bear National Team, one of the nation’s premier U 23 development programs. With the team, she will travel internationally to race UCI events, gaining experience against some of the strongest fields in the world.
Supporting that next chapter is the She Sends x Strava Strive for More Grant, an initiative created by two time World Champion and Olympian Kate Courtney to support young women pursuing ambitious goals in off road cycling. The grant helps cover essential expenses such as equipment, coaching, and race travel, easing the financial demands that often define the transition from junior racing to elite competition.
Kate Courtney created the She Sends Foundation and is a mountain bike icon.
The grant is part of a broader commitment by Strava through its Strive for More initiative, launched in 2022 to promote equity, inclusion, and participation for women in sport. In partnership with the She Sends Foundation, five thousand dollar grants are awarded during the 2025 and 2026 seasons to rising athletes across disciplines, from World Cup cross country to endurance racing and freeride.
The She Sends Foundation is guided by a simple belief: if she can see it, she can send it, and progress happens when people work together. Across the mountain bike community, women led programs and dedicated individuals are creating spaces where women and girls can ride, lead, and grow. Too often, however, these efforts exist in isolation, underfunded and under supported.
That is where the She Sends Foundation focuses its work. The organization provides financial support, visibility, and strategic guidance, while also connecting athletes and programs across different stages of the sport, from youth programs like NICA to U23 development teams.
Taking a break from riding to run a 5K with other Miller School mountain bikers—Raina Logar, Bridget Ciambotti, and Zanna Logar.
At the center of that effort is Kate Courtney. A professional cross country mountain bike racer from Marin County, California, Courtney won the Elite XCO World Championship in 2018, claimed the World Cup Overall title in 2019, and represented the United States at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Most recently, she won the Leadville 100, setting the record for the fastest women’s time in history, and a few weeks later won the UCI Marathon World Championships. A Stanford University graduate, she founded the She Sends Foundation to support women and girls through mountain biking. In 2025, she also launched She Sends Racing, aligning her elite career more closely with that mission.
For Alice, the support arrives at a point when the scale of the sport begins to shift. Racing becomes more international, travel more demanding, and development more dependent on access and opportunity. With the backing of the She Sends Foundation and Strava, she enters this next phase with fewer constraints and more room to focus on racing.
Alice’s journey is still unfolding. The start lines are bigger now, the stakes higher, and the path less predictable, but the work remains the same. One race, one season at a time.