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Our Coaches
Eric VolLmuth
Team Director & Co-Founder
Eric’s love of NJ cycling began as a toddler when his grandpa would take him on rides around Union County on the back of his Schwinn. A few years later, Eric’s dad taught him how to ride a “2 wheeler” and a life-long passion stuck. He rode his bike to school and relative’s houses exploring the hills of northern NJ, the rivers and canal paths of central Jersey, and of course, the shore. Eric added mountain biking in his teens and road racing as an adult.
Whether it’s bike-packing the continental divide or sprinting for town line signs on club rides in Italy, Eric will try to ride anything anywhere. Over the last decade, his focus has shifted from personal achievement to giving back and “getting more kids on bikes.” Outside of his responsibilities to the Board, he is the founder and president of www.njcxproject.org, as well as the emeritus head coach of the West Morris Chainbreakers and Somerset Hills VeloRaptors, two of the league's founding teams.
erin falquier
Head Coach
Coach Erin first began riding in order to get to school in Boulder, Colorado where she grew up, but her love of bike racing was really launched when she got recruited by a friend in her college dorm to join the mountain bike team. Earning quick success and enjoying the camaraderie of the team, she eventually raced collegiate mountain bikes, road bikes, and did track (velodrome) racing, winning the Western Collegiate Conference Mountain Bike Championships and finishing on the podium at the US National Collegiate Track Championships. She subsequently earned her Pro mountain bike license and eventually found her favorite cycling discipline in cyclocross, riding with the San Francisco-based Velo Bella squad and traveling on the US national cup circuit for several seasons, embracing the mud, snow, heat, and dust from the east coast to the west coast.
Erin is now a USA Cycling Level 3 coach and resides in New Jersey with her husband, a former pro road racer, and two daughters, including NJCX Project team member, Marcela Falquier. Erin's favorite parts of coaching are helping athletes advance their technical skills, helping them discover the thrill of the unknown in competition, and creating a life-long appreciation for bikes as a tool to explore the wild outdoors. When Erin is not riding, she works at the intersection of technology and public policy in the clean energy space, helping to accelerate the market for renewable energy and clean electric cars and trucks.
David Kahl
Coach
Dave and his wife Heather, along with their boys Taylor and Trevor, have been cycling together for the past 20-35+ years. With this wonderful “sport for life”, they have enjoyed cycling trips to Arizona, Oregon, Maine, Utah’s Moab and Park City, Italy, Sweden and more than 30 seasonal trips to the Kingdom Trails in Vermont.
Starting on a home-built BMX bike that he painted and built with his dad when he was a kid, Dave still loves bikes! He continues to compete in cycling on the pavement…Road (C2), in the woods…MTB (C1) and of course on the varied terrain and weather of Cross (C2)! He has had the opportunity to earn NJ State Championship wins across each of the disciplines.
In 2016, Dave was a founding member of New Jersey’s National Interscholastic Cycling League (NICA) and remains active there as a Level 3 Coach and an advisory board member. Over the past few years, working with both NJCX and NICA student athletes, Dave has realized that his most rewarding days on the bike are now spent riding with friends, family, and of course coaching the next generation of cyclists.
Coming from ski racing and then a ski coaching background, “Coach Dave” teaches and demonstrates on the bike, some of the same skiing tactics and techniques of turning, line choice and “look-ahead” skills, are also a critical benefit to success in cycling for Cross and MTB.
Extending from his roots of the first BMX bike-build with dad, Dave continues to further his education and training with the technical aspect of bike setup, ergonomic fit, and sizing…having experienced first-hand how those small changes can benefit both comfort and performance for riders of all ages and skill levels.
Robert
Watts
Coach and Team Mechanic
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Stacey
Barbossa
Coach
Stacey rode her bike around the streets of Jersey City as a kid never dreaming that so much of her adult life would revolve around bicycles. While studying at Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, Stacey took up mountain biking, riding the hills in and around Southern California. Upon returning to New Jersey, she gravitated to the intensity of cyclocross. She has won 15 NJ State Championships, multiple Mid Atlantic Cyclocross (MAC) titles and has been Masters National Champion three times!
International racing includes a win at the Pan American Masters Championships in Ontario, Canada and silver at the Masters World Championships in Mol, Belgium. Stacey is excited to share her experience and passion for cyclocross. She believes that desire, tenacity, hard work, combined with a smile, are the keys to success.
Harry
Hamilton
Coach
Coach Harry is a former national champion in cyclocross and raced in the World Championship in Belgium, finishing 14th. He is also a top age-group mountain biker. Harry has coached many cyclists and runners and enjoys teaching and learning from the juniors.
Additionally, Harry is a multi-time state champion and a top-10 finisher in the Mountain Bike National Championship. He has also completed stage races and enjoys endurance events like the Leadville 100.
This year, Harry coached and raced in the USCX series, winning his age group and supporting the NJCX kids.
Marc Bacon
Coach
Marc began his love affair with cycling nearly thirty years ago at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. While pursuing his BS in Exercise Science he also fell in love with mountain biking. Decades of trail racing turned to road, cyclocross, gravel and track racing.
Marc joined the NJCX coaching staff in 2023 and is also the head coach of Princeton Progressions, a New Jersey Interscholastic Cycling League youth mountain bike team.
He lives in Central NJ with his wife and two daughters and enjoys sharing his passion for exploring the outdoors on two wheels with friends, family, fellow coaches and of course, the young athletes of NJCX.
