Jeff Lenosky is a professional mountain biker and legendary trials rider. His career on two wheels spans 25+ years, encompassing BMX racing, trials, enduro racing, and adventuring on bikes. He’s earned 4 National Championship Titles, a World Record, over 100 pro podium finishes, and developed a popular YouTube channel called Trail Boss. On top of being a professional athlete, Lenosky also coaches MTB and frequently hosts his Trail Boss Academy at Thunder Mountain, looking to help riders take their skills to the next level.

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Bikes have been a cornerstone of Maddy Anzellotti’s life since she could walk. Originally from Rotorua, New Zealand, Anzellotti now calls the East Coast home and rides her bike as much as possible. Passionate about all things two wheels, 15-year-old Anzellotti can be found racing enduros, competing in whip-offs, and riding in party trains at Thunderstruck - our women’s freeride event. Whatever terrain you throw at her, she loves to find a way to ride it smooth and stylish.

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Tucker Shearer is a mountain bike enthusiast from North Western CT. He’s been riding since 2019 and is a jack of all trades on a bike. He’s known for big endurance rides, hitting big jumps and racing enduro at the local Eastern States Cup races. Since going pro in ESC he’s won six times and podiumed 16 times, and also placed 11th at US Nationals in pro. Outside of racing, he’s a fanatic of long endurance challenges, once riding 170 miles with 16k feet of climbing from his house in CT to Thunder and back. He also coaches on a youth MTB team, and works as a chimney sweep.

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KaJay Rooke is a graphic designer, artist, and mountain biker who loves to jump her bike and create things. In 2022, she dreamed up a women’s invitational freeride and slopestyle mash-up event known as Thunderstruck. Each fall, 25+ of the world's top and rising female talent gather at Thunder Mountain Bike Park to showcase their riding on the iconic Fort Hill jumps. Kajay’s goal with Thunderstruck was to expand opportunities for female riders in the Northeast while showcasing what this region has to offer.

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Ellen Noble is a multi discipline decorated cyclist who’s raced around the globe, but calls Thunder Mountain her home mountain. In the first stint of her pro-career, Noble won three U-23 Cyclocross National Championships, a Pan-American Championship and scored a second place podium at the UCI CX World Championships. Ellen also raced on the Cross Country World Cup circuit for a number of years. During “retirement” she dipped her toes into gravity racing, finishing 6th overall in 2023’s ESC Pro Women Enduro category. Now, back to professional racing, Noble competes in Cyclocross, Downhill, and Enduro. Beyond races, Ellen announces televised World Cups, coaches for USA cycling, and runs youth cycling camps for girls. Most of all, she is passionate about inspiring the next generation of riders.

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Lindsey Runkel is an adaptive mountain biker and High Fives athlete passionate about riding at the park and sending jumps. She discovered cycling in 2010, originally dabbling in road biking, but her co-workers convinced her to try mountain biking shortly after. A week later, she sold her road bike and went all in on mountain biking. In 2014, Runkel crashed while riding and fractured her T5 and T6 vertebrae, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Determined to keep riding, Runkel was back on an adaptive mountain bike at Thunder Mountain Bike the next year. In addition to riding Runkel mono-skis and surfs, and competes on a sled hockey team and in Spartan Races.