{"id":47553,"date":"2024-08-13T05:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T05:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=47553"},"modified":"2024-08-13T05:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T05:27:58","slug":"team-talk-ruby-roseman-gannon-from-neuroscience-major-to-worldtour-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/team-talk-ruby-roseman-gannon-from-neuroscience-major-to-worldtour-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"TEAM TALK – Ruby Roseman-Gannon: From neuroscience major to WorldTour winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ruby Roseman-Gannon<\/strong>\u2019s love of cycling was a slow burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her father was a fanatic of the sport \u2013 and still is \u2013 and so it was natural that she tried it out. She had her first taste of cycling at five years old, but it certainly wasn\u2019t love at first sight for the Australian road race champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy dad rode his bike and then raced, mainly for his health, and he became obsessed with cycling,\u201d<\/em> says Roseman-Gannon. \u201cHe joined the Brunswick Cycling Club where Luke Plapp<\/strong> and Sarah Gigante also started, and Mitch Docker, who used to race for GreenEDGE Cycling<\/strong>. They have this clinic where you pay $5 a week and they have all the bikes there in all the sizes for every age. I started there when I was five.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo be honest, I didn\u2019t really enjoy it for a while. The first time I got onto the track bike, I crashed twice. I crashed once, then they restarted the race, and I crashed again. I didn\u2019t mind it, I kept coming back every week, but I wasn\u2019t really that competitive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Liv AlUla Jayco<\/strong> rider was a sporty child, playing volleyball, football, and various other athletic activities at school. When she wasn\u2019t out on the field or track, she could be found with her nose in a book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruby Roseman-Gannon after her first WorldTour win at the Tour of Britain (Photo: Sprint Cycling)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Reading was more than a pastime for her, it helped her cope when she struggled with anxiety. Over the years she worked hard on dealing with those emotions, something she believes has helped her as a cyclist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI read a lot. I was obsessed with reading. I would max out the number of books I could get from the library, basically the whole young adult section of the library,\u201d<\/em> she explains. \u201cI would say, particularly in primary school, I was quite anxious and I had to work on that a lot as I got older. I guess it also gave me the mental toolbox I have now to help me cope with normal feelings. Difficult feelings at difficult times.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m one of the few people that I grew up racing with that just kept going. Maybe that adversity at a younger age, and having to get help and see a psychologist and be vulnerable and also have self-insight, has probably helped me keep going in some ways.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding a career path<\/strong><\/span>
Despite the shaky start to her cycling career, the young Melbourne rider did finally find her passion for it. As she hit her pre-teens, she became competitive but earning a living wage from the sport never seemed like a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through her father, who was a women\u2019s cycling superfan, she had heard of the challenges that top-level riders faced. When Roseman-Gannon started making her way through the junior ranks in around 2012, the UCI Women\u2019s WorldTour didn\u2019t exist, and female riders were still fighting for better coverage of their races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The then teenage Roseman-Gannon decided that racing full-time wouldn\u2019t be an option, and she\u2019d need a separate career so she could financially support her own ambitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere were so many stories of riders going to small teams and really struggling,\u201d<\/em> Roseman-Gannon says. \u201cI thought that if I wanted to keep cycling, it\u2019s going to be something I do on the side and I\u2019m going to have to work to make sure I have some sort of financial stability to support my hobby. When people asked me what I wanted to do, I never really saw women\u2019s cycling as being a job where you could save money or have any sort of financial security.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruby Roseman-Gannon prepares for Strade Bianche (Photo: Kramon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With that in mind, Roseman-Gannon applied for university. She wasn\u2019t sure what she wanted to do for a career but opted to take on a Bachelor of Science at Melbourne University. It wasn\u2019t a pre-defined course with mandatory classes and, instead, allowed her to sample a few subjects before settling on her major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI could choose every subject they did, there was no required subject,\u201d<\/em> Roseman-Gannon says. \u201cI also had a programme where you did one subject per semester outside of your degree. I did creative writing, criminal law, and other arts subjects, which solidified my decision to do science. I chose neuroscience because I\u2019d done a lot of psychology subjects and then physiology, anatomy, and biochemistry so it was the natural pathway for my major.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really liked neuropharmacology and there\u2019s another subject that we do called \u2018complex functions in neuroscience\u2019. It was looking at consciousness and sleep. It was this big overarching thing, and at times, it was quite philosophical. What I really liked about [neuropharmacology] was that it looked at sleep and a lot of mental health conditions but in a very concrete way. They were looking at the pharmacological underpinnings and the neurotransmitters involved and stuff.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From university degree to pro racing<\/span><\/strong>
University was a journey of discovery for Roseman-Gannon as she figured out what she wanted to do. As she approached the end of her course, she wanted to delve into a post-graduate degree to further specialise her studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt the beginning, I didn\u2019t know but towards the end I was looking at post-grad. With my university, it was great that it was so broad, but realistically, it was designed so that they would get post-graduates out of it. I was looking at medicine, physio, and neuropsychology, which is a field of psychology where you\u2019re assessing and implementing interventions with people who have brain injuries or neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s,”<\/em> she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ruby Roseman-Gannon at the front of the Giro d’Italia Women peloton (Photo: Sprint Cycling)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That post-grad didn\u2019t happen \u2013 or at least it hasn\u2019t happened yet \u2013 as Roseman-Gannon\u2019s career took off. During her degree, she\u2019d managed to balance her studies with racing at some of Australia\u2019s biggest events, including the Tour Down Under and the Women\u2019s Herald Sun Tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After graduating in 2021, the same year she won the sprint jersey at the Santos Festival of Cycling, Roseman-Gannon secured a contract with GreenEDGE Cycling for the 2022 season. Since her WorldTour debut, the now 25-year-old has gone from strength to strength, claiming her first WorldTour win at the Tour of Britain, and is making her second appearance at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While she\u2019s still fully focused on her racing career, Roseman-Gannon would like to like to eventually go back to her studies. However, she\u2019s not sure that she will go back down the same path as she had previously aimed for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always planned to do that, though each year I stay a professional cyclist the further away I feel from the previous version of myself,\u201d<\/em> she says. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m forgetting a lot of the knowledge I had. Even the conversations I had in this life compared to my previous one are very different. I feel like a different person, but I do want to go back and do that.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel like in the next phase in my life I\u2019d like to prioritise other things like relationships and not being so focused on one thing. If that\u2019s the case, then a post-graduate in medicine wouldn\u2019t be conducive. That\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve been thinking about, whether I would do something that is a little less all-consuming.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top photo: Sprint Cycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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