Mesa College and Fort Lewis won DII and DI ranking.

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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.

Photo Credit: Matt Shiver

Mesa College competed in a cold and wet National Championships competition and in the end came up second to Whitman college in the Division II field and Fort Lewis Skyhawks picked up 4th in the Division 1 field. Other Colorado victories are below

- 1st DII Crit Richard Geng (Grand Junction, Colo./Mesa State College)
- 3rd DII Crit Joe Lewis (Denver, Colo./University of Denver)
- 1st DII TTT Mesa State College
- 3rd DI TTT Fort Lewis College
- 2nd DII RR Richard Geng (Grand Junction, Colo./Mesa State College)
- 2nd DI RR Adam Wisseman CSU

Caley Fretz comes through again with a recap from this past weekends School of Mines collegiate races that included Lookout mountain HC and crit.

Caly Fretz's weekend review on Velonews

Crit photos from Kiel Hogan

Thanks once again to Addie Levinsky for providing use with the race report!

This weekend was Grand Junction’s Mesa State College’s race weekend. The weekend included an individual time trial hill climb and a criterium on Saturday, and a road race on Sunday. Aside from being stuck on top of Vail Pass on Friday afternoon, all the teams managed to make it up to Grand Junction in time for the ITT Saturday morning.

The ITT was organized (for lack of a better word) by first come first serve registration. Not that in an individual time trial the categories necessarily have to be split up, but it makes the average collegiate rider feel overly pressured when the pros are passing them in minutes up the hill. The climb was a 3.7 mile climb with 1,017 feet of elevation gain up Colorado National Monument. The climb was very similar to Lookout Mountain in Golden, though a little tougher with less corners, and the scenery was absolutely beautiful. There is no doubt it was a painful climb, especially without adequate warm-ups. Though, it was a good way to warm-up the legs for the afternoon/evening criterium.

Caley Fretz covers the CSU weekend.

Thanks to Addie Levinsky of Metro State Cycling Team for writing up this past weekend's second round of Colorado Collegiate Cycling

Results and Photos of the CU Criterium

With the temperatures rolling into the mid 50’s and dry weather conditions, cyclists from both Collegiate and non-Collegiate categories came up to Boulder to race their bicycles in the traditional criterium course at Research Park hosted by University of Colorado.

The course is what most racers feel a crit route should be; short, flat, quick turns, and most importantly, fast. Although, a course laden with pot holes, pavement cracks, deep gutters, and various other safety hazards is not an optimal condition when deep in the drops of your handlebars hitting 30+mph, and catching several feet of air anytime your carbon tubulars meet the groove in the pavement.

Caley Fretz tells readers of VeloNews what happened at this weekends collegiate races

UNC Cycling Team is making the news as they head up to their hosted Criterium this weekend. Check out the story about them and collegiate racing on the The Tribune

Many thanks to CSU Cycling President Caley Fretz for reporting on this seasons first weekend below!

Photo Credit Caley Fretz

The first races of the season are always a crapshoot. Nobody knows what kind of form their legs hold, who else is going to be on or off their game, or even who’s going to show up. So when a team’s first few races go as well as it did for the CSU Rams Cycling team this past weekend, it’s particularly encouraging.

Races opened up on Saturday at the Denver University City Park Crit, a triangular loop complete with three roundabouts and a nasty little chicane. Not an ideal course for brand new racers, as much of the Men’s C and Women’s B fields were. But the Rams were ready- this wasn’t their first rodeo after all. Thanks to some pre-season team practice crits, the new Ram racers weren’t quite as new as everyone else, and it showed. In the first four laps, a field of 60 in the C’s was whittled down to 30, and all but one CSU rider (who got caught up in a nasty crash) made the selection. A few laps later another selection was made, this time in the form of a breakaway of 8 heading off the front. Four of the eight were CSU.

No wonder Fort Lewis Cycling Team is so successful... they really know how to roll to the races.

From the UNC Cycling team....

The 2010 collegiate cycling schedule has been released, and the University of Northern Colorado cycling team is eagerly anticipating the upcoming race season. With a similar schedule to last year, we are looking forward to improving on our results from a year ago. In the 2009 season, we enjoyed some solid performances which included wins by David Leonard in the men’s B Air Force road race, A.J. Turner in the men’s C Denver University crit, and Ben Norris in the men’s C Fort Lewis and Colorado College crits. We also earned some hardware at the RMCCC finals last year with A.J. accumulating the most total points on the season for men’s C in Division II and Liz Martin earning the same title for women’s B. Additionally, we sent Alex Lewis to nationals in Fort Collins where he represented us well and finished a respectable 16th in a tough road race.

Colorado Springs, Colo. (February 3, 2009) -- The 2010 USA Cycling Collegiate Road season kicked off last weekend in Tucson with the University of Arizona Criterium, the year’s first collegiate cycling race. The season will begin in earnest across the country in the weeks that follow, but this early season start was a great preview of the excitement to come.

Chloe Forsman (University of Arizona) the 2009 Women’s D1 Mountain Bike Cross Country and Short Track National Champion, and promoter of the Arizona race, reflected on the preparation for the start of the season, saying, “The event is entirely organized and run by students. This year, a six-person committee has handled the bulk of the groundwork, while about 30 club members volunteered at the event day-of. It's stressful but always a highlight of the year.” Things worked out well for the home team, as they won all but one category of racing.

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CyclingNews recently posted a story on Fort Lewis Rider Missy Erickson great 2009 season as she raked up 2 medals at in cross and track events

See what CU team has to say about Brady Kappius, Zack Stein, Colby Pearce, 2010 nationals and much more in their 2010 state of the union address. Want to find more about Collegiate Cycling in this area? Check out our latest Colorado Collegiate Cycling page dedicated to all the news in collegiate cycling in the front range. Did you miss CSU as they talked about the 2010 season?

As far as races go, we have pretty much the same set as last year, with the addition of a CSU road race and time trial, and no races in Salt Lake City. We definitely want to dominate our own crit just like last year. Our girls team was awesome in Mesa State last year, but the men's team was a little weak, so we're hoping for better results this time around. Fort Lewis College is usually our biggest team competition, so a really strong performance again at Regionals in Durango is important.