Keep the good times high and the speeds even higher with the hitmakers that are the htSQD. The htSQD encompasses three endurance athletes with a style and swagger all their own who are always in the hunt for the top step of the podium regardless if it’s a cross country, gravel, cyclocross or even a 24 hour solo race. If it comes to suffering for your art, the htSQD knows how to get it done.
Keegan Swenson

Keegan Swenson

Keegan is a mountain biker first and foremost and he's been taking names at the races for a while now. What some people don't know about Keegan is that he has a taste for the heaviest music and an attitude like a sailor who hasn't seen land for months. Which is the kind of disposition that fits right in with the Santa Cruz htSQD, the new team partnership between Rapha and Santa Cruz with support from SRAM/RockShox.

Discipline: Cross Country, Gravel Country: USA Rides: 28|XC , 25|GR
Alexis Skarda

Alexis Skarda

The women's record holder for the White Rim Trail FKT, Alexis is a professional cross-country mountain bike racer with the htSQD, the team partnership between Rapha and Santa Cruz with support from SRAM/RockShox. Career highlights include winning a Pro Cross-Country Tour (ProXCT) race, numerous podiums at the Epic Ride Series events and twice representing the USA at the World Championships. Off the bike, she gives back through her involvement in youth programs, assistant coaching the women’s mtb team at CMU, putting on clinics, and speaking at events.

Discipline: Cross Country, Gravel Country: USA Rides: Reserve 22|GR , 25|GR , 28|XC
Tobin Ortenblad

Tobin Ortenblad

BMXer turned cyclocrosser who enjoys drafting behind his dad’s scooter, Tobin, or more affectionately known as ‘McTubbin’, isn’t your average racer. This Santa Cruz local and the former under-23 national champion is also stretching his legs and looking to race cross-country against the nation's fastest riders as part of the newly formed for 2021 Santa Cruz htSQD, the team partnership between Rapha and Santa Cruz with support from SRAM/RockShox.

Discipline: Cross Country, Cyclocross Country: USA Rides: 28|XC , Reserve 22|GR