Elite racing, on the same start line.

On April 29, 2023, Tyler Williams of L39ION of Los Angeles won the men's Pro/1/2/3 race at the Berkeley Hills Road Race. L39ION teammate Samuel Boardman finished 4th.

Williams, born in Bakersfield, California, raced professionally for Axeon–Hagens Berman and Israel Cycling Academy before L39ION, the team brothers Justin and Cory Williams founded in 2019 with the goal of increasing diversity and inclusion in cycling. By 2023, L39ION was a professional team.

The rest of the field was the Berkeley Hills field as it always is: Bay Area club riders and local teams like Alto Velo. The same climbs and the same start line, for a pro team's winner and a club racer finishing mid-pack.

In 2026, Nathaniel Martin won the men's Pro/1/2 race at the Berkeley Hills Road Race for SpeedBlock-Terún, on USA Cycling's Domestic Elite roster that year. Sarah Flamm was 3rd in the women's Pro/1/2/3.

It wasn't Terún's first time on top at Berkeley. The 2024 Berkeley Hills Road Race was the NCNCA Elite Road Race District Championship, and Flamm, then racing for Terun, won the women's Pro/1/2/3 and the NCNCA Elite Women's title. Terún riders also finished 3rd, 4th, 5th and 7th, and Hannah Stackpole took the NCNCA U23 Women's title. In 2025, racing as SpeedBlock p/b Terún, Jamie Chapman was 3rd.

Terún calls itself a Palo Alto team born in a pizzeria, with elite men's and women's squads, a development squad, an open club and a kids program. You can see it in the results: Terún riders line up from Cat 4 to Pro/1/2, and Aubery Longeau Kurtz went from 4th in Cat 3 in 2025 to the Pro/1/2 field in 2026. Local racing is where that climb happens.

Good Guys Racing is a Domestic Elite team based in New York City, and a 501(c)(3) built around developing the next generation of road racers. In 2025, Vincent Rhino raced the Berkeley Hills men's Pro/1/2/3 field for the team, finishing 34th.

Rhino is on the team's USA Cycling Domestic Elite roster in both 2024 and 2026.

Monarch Racing's women were on the Berkeley Hills podium two years running. In 2023, Helena Gilbert-Snyder, Monarch's team manager, finished 2nd in the women's Pro/1/2/3, with three more Monarch riders in the top 11. In 2024, with Monarch on USA Cycling's women's Domestic Elite roster, Chloe Mauvais was 2nd and then 4th at Berkeley Streets the next day.

The next generation came behind them. In 2025 a Monarch Development rider won Junior Girls 13-14 at the Berkeley Hills, and in 2026 Monarch juniors swept the top three places in both Junior Girls 15-16 and Junior Girls 17-18. Monarch describes itself as home to a domestic elite women's road team and the largest junior girls' road team in the country, and at Berkeley you can see both on the same weekend.