Steve Agronick, Vice President of Florida Masters, started athletics at a very young age, at 12 years old he was on the YMCA track team in Prov.RI and had many victories as a sprinter and part of a 4 x 100 relay team , for years his was the track team to beat . He moved to upstae New York as a teen and took up dirt bikes and x-country skiing. By age 20 he was the district 34 NY MX champion in both 125cc and 250cc. He went on to become a full factory rider for Bultaco motorcycles and spent time in Barcelona Spain on the development team. It was in Spain where he found one of his true loves - bicycles. Most of his early years were spent on bicycles training in and around Barcelona. He came back to the US and rode for a great many years in the New England area and went on to a great many victories in the Pro ranks. He was a very competive x-country skier and won a great many regional championships, all the while still racing bicycles. At that time in his life he discoverd mountain bikes. It was in this venue that he had the most success. He went on to many championships in and around New England . In the Masters ranks he has been an age group National champion and got a podium at the 2000 Masters world championships. Steve had the honor of being on the USA Masters Mountain Bike Team in both 2000 & 2002 proudly wearing the stars and stripes jersey representing the USA twice at the world championships. He was the oldest member of the SoBe Cannondle Pro team for (3) years in a row. In 2003 he moved to Florida where he went to work for American Classic as the National sales Manager - Steve describes it as one of the greatest experiences of his working life. He moved to the Villages Florida two years later. He has continued to race off road and in 2003 came in second in the masters division and again second in 2005. His bicycling love is now ITT "it's so much like mountain bike racing in that ready set go, red Line." "I am now a member of the Florida Masters Cycling team and have embraced Bicyle racing again with the new age formats that I feel FMC helped bring to the 2010 schdule. One of my favorite saying is Masters racers are not second class citizens. As i work full time still I am time challenged and only can manage 10 to 12 hours a week training time, I wish I could do more but it is what it is."

Michael Ploch, Webmaster and Board Member Florida Masters. Michael is new to racing and is partisipating as a Cat 5 rider for the time being and hopes to be compeditive in a few years when he reaches the Masters 55+ group.

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Member Bios

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Sandy Scott, Club Member, born April 1, 1940, served in the United States Navy, was a motorcycle officer for the City of Palo Alto, CA for 5 years, an airline pilot for Eastern Airlines for 25 years and VP-Sales for SimCom International for 11 years. He came to cycling rather late in life at the age of 64, but quickly made up time by winning 13 Florida state cycling championships, 3 Alabama state titles, and setting numerous state time trial records. In his late 30s and early 40s he won three national running titles. He recently co-authored a book with club secretary, Rose Marie Ray, titled, "From Broken Neck to Broken Records, a Masters Cyclists Guide to Winning." http://www.brokennecktobrokenrecords.com/

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At the age of 34 he became Director and General Manager of a printing company employing over fifty. Ten years later he set up his own typesetting and design company until he retired in 1996.

He renewed his enthusiasm for cycling in 1993 after a forty year break from the sport and started road racing again in 1996. He won the GC in the South of England Vetarace Series of six road races that year. He competed as a Veteran in the UK, France, Majorca and the USA. He had success in Veteran Road Racing particularly on hilly circuits where he regularly made the podium. He completed four Etape du Tours from age 65 on, achieving two golds, one silver and one bronze. In the process he rode most of the major tour climbs in the Alps, Haute Alps, Pyrenees and Massif Central that included Mont Ventoux (twice), Col du Tourmalet, Col de Roselend, Lutz Ardiden, Col de Columbiere, Col d’Aspin, Col d’Aubisque.

He rode the “Grand Prix de Gentlemen” six years running finishing in the top ten against the likes of Tony Rominger and Tony Doyle. He competed four years running in the Veterans section of the “Duo Normand” which takes place in Marigny, France. The first year he rode it was won by Chris Boardman and Jens Voigt.

Bryan has retired from racing but is always game to help out and is a great resource having raced and officiated at all levels of sports.

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Cliff Jackson, Raised in the Big Sky Country of Montana. Retired from the Air Force in 1983 after 21 years of followed by 27 years in private industry focused primarily on business in the Middle East and North Africa. Married to a fantastic woman for 41 years, two beautiful daughters, and three adorable grandchildren. Major sports have included rodeo (spent more time in orbit than the astronauts) weight lifting (4 years on the national powerlifting team), mountain climbing, scuba, and now cycling. Still many things on my "bucket list".