National Championships in Madison, Wisconsin, where Marian University won its first Division I Road National Championships, and Whitman College repeated its victory from the previous year in Division II.
This, the fourth and final USA Cycling Collegiate National Championship completed the 2009-10 collegiate cycling season and secured Fort Lewis College’s place atop the national collegiate team Division I rankings and Mesa State College’s spot ahead of all other Division II schools. Both of those teams finished in the top five of their respective divisions at Road Nationals to seal the overall season victory.Â
Mesa State College was the only Division II team to earn points at all four of USA Cycling’s Collegiate National Championships: Track, Mountain Bike, Cyclocross, and Road. They certainly reaped the benefits of that consistency in the form of a 14 point margin over second place Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which earned points at only three of those competitions … Details
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Dotsie Bausch (Irvine, Calif./ATF Empire Coaching Systems), Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./American Track Foundation) and Lauren Tamayo (Asheville, N.C./Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12) set an unofficial new world record in the three-kilometer team pursuit on their way to winning the gold medal in women’s event at the Panamerican Championships in Aguascalientes, Mexico on May 12. Their time of 3:19.569 is nearly two seconds faster than the previous record of 3:22.552 set by New Zealand’s Rushlee Buchanan, Lauren Ellis and Alison Shanks at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships on March 25th of this year. With that time, the newly formed American women’s team pursuit became the first to break the renowned 3:20 mark.Â
“There are fantastic team pursuit programs all around the world and its an honor to be considered one of the best …Â Details
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Madison, Wis.(May 7, 2010) – The nation’s best collegiate cyclists travelled to Madison, Wisconsin on Friday to contest a portion of the proposed 2016 Olympic road race course on the opening day of the 2010 USA Cycling Road Cycling National Championships. More than 350 riders braved the brutally wet and cold conditions – and over 6,000-feet of climbing around the course at Blue Mound State Park, 30 miles west of Madison … Details
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Colorado Springs, Colo. (May 4, 2010) – The USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships will head to Madison, Wis. for the first time since the event was held there in 2004. Nearly 500 student-athletes representing almost 100 colleges and universities from across the country will compete to win one of 18 national titles, May 7-9. Read more about the riders to watch and a special insider preview of the event on the USA Cycling Collegiate webpage. Â
The USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships, hosted by the Wisconsin University Badgers in partnership with Team Sports, Inc. will see hundreds of men and women from Division I and Division II institutions compete for individual championships in three categories – criterium, road race and individual omnium. The collegiate squads will also fight for team titles in … Details
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