Founder and President of First Gear Events LLC and MiniRiders Camps
Aria is a high school senior and recipient of the 2024-2025 National GRiT Award for creating more opportunity and community for girls in mountain biking. She is a competitive mountain biker, basketball player, track athlete, and top student dedicated to learning, leading, and developing community.
Why did we start Mini Riders?
Our goal is to provide camps for an often underserved or overlooked group in the mountain bike community- young girls! With high school aged coaches, we aim to provide a fun community of girls for elementary aged riders to learn and progress their skills with confidence. We hope to spread a love and community for the sport by creating several camps across the country!
Click on the video to see what it's like to ride with the Austin Mini Riders camp! Our campers loved wearing GoPros!
About our camps
Austin Mini Riders - Camp in the Lake Travis area focused on introducing basic skills and advancing returning campers to more technical skills and terrain. *AMR gives back 10% of all profits to GRiT (Girls Riding Together).
Park City Mini Riders - Camp in beautiful Park City, Utah focused on introducing basic skills to young riders and customizing skills to more advanced riders.
Southern California Mini Riders - Camp in sunny Aliso Viejo, CA (near Mission Viejo) introducing basic skills to very new riders. Focused on fun and community!
Central Austin Mini Riders - Central Austin-based full week camp for both boys and girls aimed at introducing and furthering basic mountain biking skills.