Cadet D Bryant
- Actor
Cadet D Bryant is an American-born actor, educator, and athlete.
Bryant's father was a military policeman in the US Marine Corps, and his mother is a retired school teacher. While his father was in the military, the Bryant family lived at Tustin Naval Air Station, CA, as well as in Isfahan, Iran, from 1979-1980, during which the family fled the Iranian Revolution and returned to Texas via Germany.
Cadet D Bryant is a former semi-professional mountain biker and has competed alongside national, world, and Tour de France champions, such as Tinker Juarez, Floyd Landis, and Lance Armstrong.
Bryant is a former US-sponsored team rider for Giant Bicycle/T-Mobile and Ellsworth Handcrafted Bikes. He has ridden in New Mexico's infamous Tour of the Gila pro stage race and won Arizona's Triple Crown Award for finishing Gold in 3 of the PCA's grand tour races: Tour de Tucson, Tour of Phoenix, Tour of the Tucson Mountains.
In 2005, Bryant competed in an ultra-endurance cycling road race called Race Across Oregon, and he is a featured rider in a documentary film that was produced about the event that year. The day before the start, Bryant's bicycles became dislodged from his vehicle and were destroyed on the interstate in Portland, Oregon. Nonetheless, he borrowed a bicycle and despite succumbing from hypothermia halfway through the race in a formidable, unrelenting, freezing climb, Bryant completed 406.4 miles (in 41 hours) of the 538.7 mile race.
In 2007, Bryant finished 11th Overall in the National Ultra-Endurance MTB Series, and in 2008 he finished 2nd Overall in the Texas MTB Marathon Series. In 2010, a British author named Paul Howard published a memoir about his and Bryant's journey together in one of the world's toughest races, the 2009 Tour Divide MTB Race.
While studying at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, TX, Bryant earned a BA and MA in English and an MEd in School Counseling; he was nominated twice to the National Dean's List and is a Two-Time All-American Scholar.
According to Bryant, the most significant experience of his life occurred in 2013 when he hiked the entire Camino de Santiago trail across Spain (514 miles) in the middle of winter.
Bryant regularly competes in ultra-endurance trail runs, and in his free time he enjoys reading dystopian fiction and binge-watching Netflix with his favorite trail running partner and four-legged daughter, a 7-year old Border Collie/Australian Shepherd mix named "Starbuck."
Bryant's father was a military policeman in the US Marine Corps, and his mother is a retired school teacher. While his father was in the military, the Bryant family lived at Tustin Naval Air Station, CA, as well as in Isfahan, Iran, from 1979-1980, during which the family fled the Iranian Revolution and returned to Texas via Germany.
Cadet D Bryant is a former semi-professional mountain biker and has competed alongside national, world, and Tour de France champions, such as Tinker Juarez, Floyd Landis, and Lance Armstrong.
Bryant is a former US-sponsored team rider for Giant Bicycle/T-Mobile and Ellsworth Handcrafted Bikes. He has ridden in New Mexico's infamous Tour of the Gila pro stage race and won Arizona's Triple Crown Award for finishing Gold in 3 of the PCA's grand tour races: Tour de Tucson, Tour of Phoenix, Tour of the Tucson Mountains.
In 2005, Bryant competed in an ultra-endurance cycling road race called Race Across Oregon, and he is a featured rider in a documentary film that was produced about the event that year. The day before the start, Bryant's bicycles became dislodged from his vehicle and were destroyed on the interstate in Portland, Oregon. Nonetheless, he borrowed a bicycle and despite succumbing from hypothermia halfway through the race in a formidable, unrelenting, freezing climb, Bryant completed 406.4 miles (in 41 hours) of the 538.7 mile race.
In 2007, Bryant finished 11th Overall in the National Ultra-Endurance MTB Series, and in 2008 he finished 2nd Overall in the Texas MTB Marathon Series. In 2010, a British author named Paul Howard published a memoir about his and Bryant's journey together in one of the world's toughest races, the 2009 Tour Divide MTB Race.
While studying at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, TX, Bryant earned a BA and MA in English and an MEd in School Counseling; he was nominated twice to the National Dean's List and is a Two-Time All-American Scholar.
According to Bryant, the most significant experience of his life occurred in 2013 when he hiked the entire Camino de Santiago trail across Spain (514 miles) in the middle of winter.
Bryant regularly competes in ultra-endurance trail runs, and in his free time he enjoys reading dystopian fiction and binge-watching Netflix with his favorite trail running partner and four-legged daughter, a 7-year old Border Collie/Australian Shepherd mix named "Starbuck."