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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
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