Tara Llanes

Tara Janelle Llanes, born on November 28, 1976, is a former bicycle motocross and mountain bike racer who later became a wheelchair basketball player. Her prime competitive years in BMX were from 1990 to 1993, and she was sponsored in that period by Aussie Wear and by Haro Designs. She retired from BMX in 1995 to race mountain bikes full time, became a national champion in mountain bike racing, and restarted BMX in late 2006 with an eye toward the 2008 Olympic team. After a serious injury she went on to play wheelchair tennis and wheelchair basketball for Canada. Her surname is pronounced Yaw-ness.