USA Cycling Announces Partial Worlds Team
December 18, 2005
USA Cycling announced five automatic nominations to the 2006 UCI Cyclo-cross
World Championships squad.
Per USA Cycling’s selection procedures, Daniel Summerhill (Englewood,
Colo.) earned an automatic bid after capturing the junior men’s national
championship at the Liberty Mutual U.S. National Cyclo-cross
championships over the weekend.
Troy Wells (TIAA-CREF/Durango, Colo.) and Jesse Anthony (Clif
Bar/Beverly, Mass.) each earned automatic selections to the team in the
U23 category. Wells rode to a national title on Saturday to earn his
selection while Anthony won the 2005 Crank Brothers U.S. Gran Prix of
Cyclo-cross series to earn his.
Katie Compton (Redline/Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Barbara Howe (Velo
Bella/Larkspur, Calif.) earned spots on the elite women’s team. Compton
rode to her second consecutive national title on Sunday while Howe was
the highest-placed American in third at the conclusion of the U.S. Gran
Prix of Cyclo-cross.
Aside from automatics: Compton, Howe in the women; Summerhill in the
juniors; Wells and Anthony in the espoirs, the discretionaries were
named.
Junior Men:
Alex Howes
Bjorn Selander
Chance Noble
Patrick Ethan Gilmore
U-23 Men:
Adam McGrath
Brady Kappius
Dan Neyens
Women:
Ann Knapp
Maureen Bruno-Roy
Rhonda Mazza
Elite men to be named Jan 13.
Jingle Cross Rock a success
Special appearances by
US Olympic Cyclist and Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team Rider Jason
McCartney and 5 time UCI World Mountain Bike Champion Steve Tilford
highlighted the day in the Men's Elite A race. Tilford showed his cross
skills on the technical areas and emerged victorious in the 2nd annual
TIAA-CREF Coralville Jingle Cross Rock.
In the Women's race Linda Sone
(Hollywood Cycles) held on to beat Catherine Walberg (Team Kenda Tire)
in a hard fought race. Sone took the women by only 18 seconds over
Walberg with the 3rd and 4th place finishers well off the fast pace set
by the top two.
Photos: A Men Only
(and mostly only shots where they look bad)
Road Trip Documentary Video
Wisconsin State Cyclocross
Championship
A cold windy day greeted racers at Angell Park
Speedway in Sun Prairie for the Wisconsin State Cyclocross Championship.
At the end of the day WCA Series Overalls would be decided and new state
champions would be determined.
With a redesigned course that did not go onto the
very muddy clay race track riders were greeted with many new challenges.
Bike handling skills would be tested with many tight corners and new off
camber sections. Several steep uphills also challenged riders
along with one 3 barrier section and one barrier to an uphill run.
Photos:
C Men and C Women
Junior
B Men and B Women
A Women and 40/50+
Men
A Men and 30+ Men
Kid's Race and
other Miscellaneous
Videos:
A Women
and 40/50+ Men
C Men
A Men and 30+
C Women - coming soon
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Nationals Update
The Liberty Mutual U.S. National
Cyclo-cross Championships will be held December 9-11 at Roger Williams Park in
Providence, R.I. Many riders from the area will be traveling east to take
part. Find out more about the race and the racers that will be taking part
right here at MadCross.org, In addition, MadCross.org will be your
site for news from Providence so you can find out how all the locals are doing
and get all the latest gossip and news.
Dopers Suck Coffee Helps Send US Juniors To Cross
Worlds
December 6, 2005
For the second consecutive year, Dopers Suck and Jittery Joe’s Coffee
have joined forces to help send U.S. junior racers to the Cyclocross
World Championships in Zeddam, The Netherlands. All proceeds from Dopers
Suck Special Blend coffee will help offset World Championships travel
expenses for these young up and coming superstars as they head to Europe
for the January 28, 2006 race. Dopers Suck Special Blend coffee is
created exclusively for Dopers Suck by Jittery Joe’s is available ground
or whole bean.
Jittery Joe's Coffee is based in Athens, Georgia and has roasted over 5
million pounds of beans in the last 14 years, 25 pounds at a time. They
support cycling through grassroots junior sponsorship, event support,
and sponsorship of the Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity Professional Cycling
Team. For more info visit:
Jittery Joes
Dopers Suck is an organization that opposes the use of illegal
performance enhancing drugs in all sports. For more info visit:
Dopers Suck
Euro Cross Christmas for TIAA-CREF/Clif Bar Standouts
December 21, 2005
The TIAA-CREF/Clif Bar Cyclo-Cross Development Team is sending four
riders across the pond today to spend the holiday season racing in the
most competitive and relentless cyclo-cross series of the season
throughout cross crazed Belgium and Holland. The trip will provide
valuable preparation for the World Championships later in January as
well as real world experience in the two week whirlwind that is the
Christmas cross rush in Belgium.
Representing for the juniors will be Danny Summerhill and Alex Howes.
Danny is coming off a Crank Brothers USGP Overall win as well as a
National Championship win two weekends ago in Providence, RI where Alex
placed second. The U23 flag will be flown by Troy Wells and Brady
Kappius. Troy picked up an excellent victory at the US National
Championships two weeks ago as well and Brady grabbed a well earned
sixth place. All of these riders were selected as members of the US
National Cyclo-Cross World Championship Team on the merit of each of
their strong performances throughout the season.
These four will be joining a larger US contingent of cross racers
selected and managed by US National Coach Geoff Proctor at his third
annual Christmas “Cross Camp”. There will be full slate of racing on tap
with six events in 12 days. The schedule stacks up as follows:
Diegem Super Prestige, Saturday 24 Dec
Hofstade, Monday 26 Dec
Loenhout GVA, Wednesday 28 Dec
Hooglede World Cup, Saturday 31 Dec
St Niklaas C2, Monday 2 Jan
Surheisterveen (Netherlands) C2, Wednesday 4 Jan
To help support Danny, Alex, Troy and Brady, BikeReg.com has been
accepting donations through a dedicated fund raising page. The success
of this effort has been overwhelming with contributions pouring in
totaling $3000 to date. This page will be up and accepting further
donations through January.
BikeReg.com is donating the service fees from pledges made via this
page, so 100% of all donations will go directly to the riders. For more
information or to make tax free contributions to the TIAA-CREF/Clif Bar/ACA
European Cyclo-Cross Fundraiser, go to
Bike Reg
Kansas City UCI race set for December 3
The Trek Bicycle Store of Kansas City and The Trek Bicycle Store of
St. Louis are pleased to announce the KLM Marketing Solutions UCI
Cyclocross Race and the Kansas/Missouri State Cyclocross Championships.
KLM Marketing Solutions will host their first UCI event to hone their
Cyclocross skills in preparation for the 2007 & 2008 National
Championships.
Competition will take place at Wyandotte County Park located in
Kansas City, Kansas. The 360 acre facility is a riders dream with fast
terrain and painful run-ups. This will mark the 2nd time that a National
caliber Cyclocross Race & National Championships have been hosted in the
Kansas City Metro Area. Slimen Und Grossen www.slimenundrossen.com
hosted a Super Cup event and National Championships in 2000, which
happened to be the coldest day on record. "We are very excited and
honored to be the host for this great sporting event. We have put a lot
of time and efforts into bringing the event to Kansas City.
The support has been overwhelming from the Kansas City, Kansas Parks
& Recreation Department, Unified Government of Wyandotte County and the
Kansas City Sports Commission; all entities are dedicated to making
sports an important part of Kansas City." Said KLM Marketing Solutions
President Bill Marshall. For more event information visit
KC Cross
Nationals
Last Chicago Cross Cup set for
December 4
This Sunday in Chicago is set to be
great! The new course uses Cricket Hill, the beach, a cool
underground walkway (going both directions) and something called the Zig
Zag of death.
In addition, the Chicago Cross Cup has
got a boosted prize list that pays out very deep in each category (e.g.
10 deep mens B, new prizes for Junior women). They've also had a late
sponsor come on so they're paying two deep for the overall series.
Get out the race details at the
Chicago Cross Cup website. |
