Deanna Edwards

Deanna Edwards
Personal information
Full name Deanna J. Jamieson
née Edwards
Born (1970-06-13)June 13, 1970
Walled Lake, Michigan, United States of America
Died June 22, 2015(2015-06-22)
Team information
Current team Supercross
Discipline Bicycle Motocross (BMX)
Role Racer
Rider type Off Road
Amateur team(s)
1982-1983 Davis Racing
1984 Columbus Schwinn
1984-1986 GT Racing
1986-1987 World Class
(1988-2004) Retired for 16 years
2004- Supercross
Infobox last updated on
July 28, 2008

Deanna J. Jamieson (née Edwards) (June 13, 1970 - June 22, 2015 from Walled Lake, Michigan[1] USA) was an amateur "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1981-1987. She retired in 1987 but resumed racing in 2004.

Racing career milestones

Note: Professional firsts are on the national level unless otherwise indicated.

Milestone Event Details
Started racing: February 15, 1980 at nine years old at the Bogie Downs race track. She got into racing because Raleigh, a bicycle company, did not name girls in one of their advertisements.[2]
Sanctioning body:
Sanctioning body district(s): American Bicycle Association (ABA):
Michigan District 5 (MI-5) 1981-1987
First race bike:
First race result: 2nd place.
First win (local):
First sponsor:
First national win:
Turned Professional: No professional career.
Height and weight at height of her career (1987): Ht:5'10 (2005)[3]
Retired: Originally 1987 at age 17. Her last race was the 1987 NBL Grandnational in which she won her 16 & Over girls' class and took National No.1 for that division. She retired because she was burned out with the traveling taking its toll and she wanted to be a "normal kid."[4] She resumed racing in 2004 at age 34. Still active.

Career factory and major bike shop sponsors

Note: This listing only denotes the racer's primary sponsors. At any given time a racer could have numerous ever-changing co-sponsors. Primary sponsorships can be verified by BMX press coverage and sponsor's advertisements at the time in question. When possible exact dates are used.

Amateur

Professional

Career bicycle motocross titles

Note: Listed are District, State/Provincial/Department, Regional, National, and International titles in italics. "Defunct" refers to the fact of that sanctioning body in question no longer existing at the start of the racer's career or at that stage of his/her career. Depending on point totals of individual racers, winners of Grand Nationals do not necessarily win National titles. Series and one off Championships are also listed in block.

Amateur

National Bicycle Association (NBA)

National Bicycle League (NBL)

American Bicycle Association (ABA)

*The ABA International Super Bowl of BMX was a series of 33 qualifying races around the country culminating in a Championship race in Toledo, Ohio. To qualify a racer had to participate in one of the 33 races in the series.[8] Then the qualifyers participate in three Double point races in Ohio a day before the finals. The main event qualifiers will then be trimmed down to the sixteen riders with the most points via tabulation. Those 16 will make up the Simis for the Triple point Super Bowl race event itself with the qualifiers from those semis racing for the title in the main.[9] Each Super Bowl main amateur or Pro was run three times to determine the champion in his/her class.[10]

Fédération Internationale Amateur de Cyclisme (FIAC)*

International Bicycle Motocross Federation (IBMXF)*

Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)*

USA Cycling

*Note: Beginning in 1991 the IBMXF and FIAC had been holding joint World Championship events as a transitional phase in merging which began in earnest in 1993. Beginning with the 1996 season the IBMXF and FIAC completed the merger and both ceased to exist as independent entities being integrated into the UCI. Beginning with the 1997 World Championships held in Brighton, England the UCI would officially hold and sanction BMX World Championships and with it inherited all precedents, records, streaks, etc. from both the IBMXF and FIAC.

Professional

Significant injuries

Miscellaneous

BMX magazine covers

Note: Only magazines that were in publication at the time of the racer's career(s) are listed unless specifically noted.

Minicycle/BMX Action & Super BMX:

Bicycle Motocross Action & Go:

BMX Plus!:

Total BMX:

Bicycles and Dirt: (published by the ABA)

BMX World (2005 version):

Bicycles Today & BMX Today (The official NBL publication under two names):

ABA Action, American BMXer, BMXer (The official ABA publication under three names):

Death

Deanna passed on June 22, 2015 after a brief battle with cancer.[17]

References

  1. ↑ Super BMX May 1983 Vol.10 No.5 pg.23
  2. 1 2 BMX Action December 1985 Vol.10 No.12 pg.33
  3. ↑ Vintage BMX topic "Deanna Edwards own thread" pg.1
  4. ↑ bmxultra.com December 2006 interview.
  5. ↑ bmxultra December 2006 interview.
  6. ↑ Vintage BMX Topic "Deanna Edwards own thread" pg.3
  7. ↑ Bicycles and Dirt April 1984 Vol.2 No.7 pg.20
  8. ↑ ABA Action July 1983 Vol.6 No.7 pg.5
  9. ↑ ABA Action July 1983 Vol.6 No.7 pg.49(event advertisement)
  10. ↑ ABA Action March 1984 Vol.7 No.2 pg.37
  11. ↑ Sandimom's description of the crash on Vintatebmx.com on June 22, 2009
  12. ↑ Deanna's June 22, 2009 vintagebmx.com posting on the matter
  13. ↑ Deanna's second June 22, 2009 response
  14. ↑ Deann'a Update on her condition in a July 2, 2009 post on vintagebmx.com site.
  15. ↑ Super BMX February 1984 Vol.11 No.2 pg.66
  16. ↑ American BMXer January/February 1987 Vol.9 No.1 pg.44 (results)
  17. ↑ Deanna's Obituary

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