Tag: anne-marije rook

March 10, 2020

Watch: Why Anne-Marije Rook is biking the Tour de France route one day ahead of the men

Automated transcript (.txt) It’s the year 2020, and the world’s most famous bike race does not have a comparable event for women. That’s why women have biked the route of the Tour de France one day ahead of the men for half a decade now. They aren’t only demonstrating that women can ride the grueling…
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May 13, 2015

Anne-Marije Rook leaves Cascade to write about women’s cycling

Anne-Marije Rook is leaving Cascade Bicycle Club after many years working for their communications department and a year and a half as the club’s Communications Director. Before joining Cascade, Rook worked full-time as a reporter for the Ballard News-Tribune and wrote about cycling on her Riding Reporter blog. Now she’s going back to writing and…
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January 3, 2014

What do you think of Cascade’s new logo?

Cascade Bicycle Club has unveiled a new logo for the new year. Finally bidding farewell to the long-running, sans-serif-in-italics logo. The new logo has a more corporate and clean look featuring a “C” wrapped around half a chain link. The logo change comes amid a string of changes at the club since Elizabeth Kiker took…
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November 27, 2013

Cascade hiring two communications staffers, shakeups continue

Changes at Cascade Bicycle Club keep coming, and the club has announced two communications positions. In recent weeks, several more staffers left or were let go as new Executive Director Elizabeth Kiker continues to dramatically reorganize the 15,000-member organization. Cascade announced Friday that Anne-Marije Rook is moving up as Communications Director, a position formerly held…
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July 11, 2013

A drunk driver almost killed her while she trained for the 2008 STP, now Kathi is ready to finish what she started

Cascade’s Anne-Marije Rook today features the inspiring story of Kathi Sturgeon, who was struck by a drunk driver five years ago while training for the 2008 Seattle-to-Portland Bicycle Classic. Though she was not expected to survive, Sturgeon fought back. She is still in physical therapy, but she has come so far that she is finally…
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December 12, 2012

Cascade: Coffee-by-bike company bursts onto scene

Few industries are quite as packed as the Seattle coffee market. Between the global enterprises and long-respected roasters on Capitol Hill, it’s not exactly easy to make a splash in the scene. But Conduit Coffee‘s Jesse Nelson did just that this year, and he did it on a bike. Cascade Bicycle Club’s Anne-Marije Rook profiled…
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