Andrés Angulo has been involved with cycling for more than 20 years. His purpose as a coach is to help hard-working riders develop their full potential and prepare them for an adequate transition to professional racing. He resides in Springdale, Arkansas with his wife Natalia and his son Santiago. In addition to coaching, his current cycling projects involve racing with the Tyson Racing Team and directing the Mercy Development Cycling Team.

Andrés is originally from Colombia, a mountainous country with a long and profound cycling tradition. His passion for cycling emerged during the 1984 Tour de France while watching Luis Herrera, an amateur rider at the time, soar to victory in the stage to l'Alp d'Huez leaving behind the likes of LeMond, Hinault and Fignon.

Throughout the years, Andrés has maintained a solid relationship with his sport. In 1988, he co-founded and captained his high school team ("Club Ciclístico Gimnasiano") at Gimnasio Campestre and promoted a race for high-schools in Bogotá with the full support of the Colombian Cycling Federation. In 1989, he came to the US as an exchange student to Twin Falls, Idaho where he raced with the local Blue Lakes Cycling Club. In May of 1990, while on a training ride, Andrés was struck from behind by a semi-truck traveling at 70 mph. He was thrown off his bike, his helmet shattered to pieces, and his bike dragged between the wheels of the truck. Miraculously, he survived the accident.

Eight long and painful months later, and having enrolled as an industrial engineering student in Colombia, Andrés resumed riding. At the university, he formed a team and participated in collegiate racing. He came back to the US in 1992 to complete his degree at the University of Arkansas and to continue racing. At Arkansas, he founded and directed the university's cycling club.

Upon graduation, Andrés returned to Colombia and committed to his engineering work from 1995 to 1999. In 2000, he returned to Arkansas for his master degree in industrial engineering. That summer, his passion rose again when Natalia (then his girlfriend) told him that Santiago Botero had won the Tour de France stage to Briançon. Botero had also taken over the lead in the King of the Mountains classification, and was sitting in 8th place overall. Andrés, who was backpacking around Europe at the time, went back to France to meet the race in Morzine, where he met Santiago and began establishing a long-lasting fan/friendship relationship with him.

He decided to follow each remaining stage of that year's tour. Two days after Morzine, Andrés met Thierry Gaytán by chance. Thierry, a French-Colombian journalist, was covering the Tour for a television station. He did not speak English and needed help interviewing Lance Armstrong. When Andrés mentioned that he spoke English "even with the same accent as Lance", Thierry offered him a press credential. Andrés got to interview with Armstrong as well as many other riders in that year's Tour, including Santiago Botero and Victor Hugo Peña.

So great was the experience at the Tour that Andrés came back to follow the race in 2001, 2002 and 2003 sometimes as a journalist playing camera man, interviewing riders, translating, and sometimes as a fan painting the roads of France the names of his fellow countrymen and proudly waving the Colombian flag in the high mountains of the race.