MEET THE 2025 QUINTANA ROO FACTORY TEAM
For decades, Quintana Roo has been supporting triathletes from around the globe. In 2025, Quintana Roo sought out and forged partnerships with 15 budding and veteran professional triathletes that may not be familiar names to you—yet.
While each of these athletes is at a different point in their rise as a professional, they all have compelling, funny, inspiring, and very often relatable stories we aim to share with Quintana Roo fans and owners through our social channels and website in the coming months. Quintana Roo will give you the opportunity to follow their development, the wins, the heartbreaks, and the moments that inspire.
“It’s the pros that set the bar and inspire us to achieve, and over the years, we’ve met so many that have stories we wanted to support," says American Bicycle Group president Chris Pascarella. "The Quintana Roo Factory Team is a collective of pros that are serving to inspire in their own communities, and beyond. We’re grateful to be able to offer support to these athletes, and aim to be part of their journey when they become even bigger entities in the sport.”
Factory Team athletes will be racing and training with Quintana Roo triathlon bikes, road bikes, and wetsuits, providing feedback to our product development team.
The 15 Quintana Roo Factory Team Members
Marion LeGrand - Marseille, France
Instagram: @marion__legrand
The 2024 Duathlon World Champion and four-time French national champion is also a champ in triathlon, with a win at Ironman 70.3 Pays d’Aix and Triathlon Royan in 2024. Marion aims to kick off her triathlon season at Ironman 70.3 Nice in late June.
Robbie Webster - Puyallup, Washington
Instagram: @robbywebster22
A product of the Pacific Northwest, Robby parlayed his collegiate distance running background (10k and cross country) at the University of Washington into his segue into triathlon. He’s begun notching Top 10 results in recent years, including a seventh-place finish at Ironman Canada in 2024, and seventh at Ironman Coeur d’Alene and 10th at Ironman Maryland in 2023.
Tara Rooney - Chicago, Illinois
Instagram: @rooney_tara
While she’s from the city made famous by deep dish pizza and spent her collegiate years as a distance runner at Florida State University, Tara has made the triathlon mecca of Girona, Spain, and the delicious local tapas, her home away from home. A longtime Quintana Roo devotee, she’s recently built her new V-PRi and has already put it to work with a 16th-place finish at Ironman 70.3 Valencia in Spain—with more to come.
Martin Ulloa - Chile
Instagram: @_martinulloa
One of Chile’s top triathlon talents, Ulloa has done it all. Transitioning from a short-course athlete (where he won the Chilean Sprint Triathlon National Championships and represented Chile on the World Cup circuit), Ulloa became PanAm champ and a 70.3 beast, with a stack of podiums around the world, highlighted in 2021 with an Ironman 70.3 Los Cabos win, and 2023 runner-up finishes at Ironman 70.3 Oregon, and his home race, Ironman 70.3 Pucon.
Simon Shi - Santa Ana, California
Instagram: @the_simonshi
A former collegiate swimmer at Virginia Tech, Simon is best known as the Rubik’s Cube Triathlete. He has a wildly popular YouTube channel with a true behind-the-scenes look at the glamorous (and not so glamorous!) side of being a pro triathlete. With results stacking up on his V-PRi at Ironman 70.3 Oceanside and Ironman Texas, Simon keeps chipping his way forward in the results—and taking you along for the ride.
Giel Meesen - Maastricht, Netherlands
Instagram: @gielmeesen.tri
A cycling specialist who is complimented with both the Quintana Roo V-PRi as well as the Service Course aero road bike, After kicking off the season with a third-place result at Triathlon International de Martinique, Meesen has a wide variety of events on his 2025 calendar, from representing his nation at the World Triathlon Long Distance World Championships in Pontevedra, Spain, to Embrunman and Challenge Family races in Almere and San Remo.
Jamie Hayes - Fairfax, Virginia
Instagram: @jahazetri
Hayes splits his time between training and his work as an engineer in the military sector. He continues to cut his teeth and improve on his 12th-place result at Ironman New Zealand in 2024 and 11th-place result at Ironman Wisconsin in 2022.
Jana Uderstadt - Darmstadt, Germany
Instagram: @janauderstadt
The diminutive German is quickly becoming a powerhouse on the world stage, and kicked off her 2025 campaign in style with a solid 6th-place finish (and a Kona qualification spot) at Ironman South Africa.
Benjamin Zorgnotti - French Polynesia
Instagram: @ben.tahiti
A former short-course athlete and multiple-time French Polynesia national champion in triathlon, the French-born Tahitian's resume is dotted with top results, including a fourth-place finish at Ironman New Zealand in 2025.
Fiona Moriarity - Ireland
Instagram: @fionamoriartytri
Ireland’s top talent calls the cool climes of Bend, Oregon, home. However, she hits all points on the globe, with a sixth-place result at Ironman Cairns in 2024, fifth at Ironman 70.3 Campeche, and appearances at both the Ironman and Ironman 70.3 World Championships that year.
Gerard Hubbard - Littleton, Colorado
Instagram: @protriathlontraining
As a frequent top-10 age group finisher at Ironman and 70.3 races the past few years, this rookie pro is best known as one of triathlon’s best content creators as the man behind the @protriathlontraining Instagram handle. Hubbard made his pro debut with the Factory Team in 2025, finishing seventh at the White Lake Pro Am Half.
Kellie Pope - Naples, Florida
Instagram: @kellie__pope
A former collegiate swimmer at Florida Gulf Coast University, Kellie splits time between coaching as part of the NVDM Coaching group and training for the season, which includes starts at Ironman Chattanooga and Arizona, and Ironman 70.3 Happy Valley and Louisville.
Sarah Kim Bonner - Canada
Instagram: @sarahkimbonner
The queen of resilience, it took Sarah seven years and two major surgeries to get back to racing after being hit by a car while on her bike in 2018. A Canadian living on the triathlon-loving island of Lanzarote in Spain, you’ll find her on the hillier half-distance courses, including the Alpe d’Huez Triathlon.
Jess Smith - Clive, Iowa
Instagram: @jesssmithtri
A longtime Quintana Roo pro athlete, Jess also heads up her own coaching company and has another big full-time job as a mom to two kids. With all that on her plate, she’s knocking out results, most recently with a second-place finish at Ironman 70.3 Chattanooga this year.
Sloane Tilley - Silver Spring, Maryland
Instagram: @sloane_kathryn
After eight seasons in the age group ranks, Sloane enters the pro ranks in 2025 intending to experience the high bar that the pro field brings—and hitting it. ”Athletes like Lucy Charles and Alice Alberts inspire me, because they started like so many of us as age groupers,” she says.
