This report was posted on cycling news. I held off to tell anyone what my plans were for next year because I wanted to make sure everything was right.
TIAA-CREF growing
A team set to expand for next season is Jonathan Vaughter's TIAA-CREF squad of mostly under-23 developmental riders. The 2006 edition will see an increase in the roster due to the signing of an additional major co-sponsor. This will allow the team to add slightly older and more experienced (but still young) riders to shepherd along in their already established careers further.
"We will race quite a bit more in Europe, while upping our U.S. presence in the big events," Vaughters told Cyclingnews. He went on to reveal that some of the new riders will include the new U.S. elite criterium and pursuit champion Brad Huff (Mercy Cycling), former U.S. elite criterium champion and ex-Mercury and Saturn sprinter Rahsaan Bahati (McGuire-Langdale), and current Canadian road champion Francois Parisien (Espoirs Laval) who bested the top pros in his country to take the maple leaf jersey. The announcement of the new co-sponsor and the addition of another major name to the team will come around Interbike.