USA Cycling and the Fort Collins Cycling Festival will host the first-ever Echelon Collegiate Cycling Leadership Conference, May 6th and 7th in Fort Collins, Colo. The conference, strategically titled Echelon, is sponsored by Training Peaks and is set to cover a broad range of topics unique to Collegiate Cycling. Organizers hope to bring together the stakeholders of Collegiate Cycling to discuss progress and innovation in the world of Collegiate Cycling. Registration is required via Sportsbaseonline.com by Sunday, May 3rd.

The 2008-2009 collegiate cycling season is officially in the books, and when the points were tallied, Lees McRae College and the Massachusetts Institue of Technology came out on top of Divisions I and II as the most well-versed and progressive collegiate cycling teams in the United States.

The North Central Collegiate Cycling Conference (NCCCC) will be welcoming a new director during the 08-09 season, while the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference (ECCC) embraced new leadership this fall. With the appointment of Mark Guthart as the new conference director for the NCCCC and Joe Kopena as the primary conference director for the ECCC, collegiate cycling is looking forward to the future.

With two of four USA Cycling Collegiate Cycling National Championships complete, both the Division I and II overall team standings are topped by a pair of ties. Fort Lewis College and Lees-McRae College are deadlocked atop the Division I standings with 37 total points, while the Colorado School of Mines and Colorado College lead the DII standings with 29 points apiece. The USA Cycling Collegiate Cyclo-cross National Championships will be held as a part of the overall USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships on Sunday, Dec. 14 at Tiffany Springs Park in Kansas City.

The North Central Collegiate Cycling Conference completed the 2008 season with a road race and team time trial hosted by the University of Iowa and Grinnell College. Both races were contested in Amish country near Kalona, Iowa. Winds were strong, temperatures were well below normal but the racing was red hot! Missing were the two North Dakota Universities, unable to travel due to an unusual April Blizzard bringing more than a foot of snow on Friday and Saturday.

After eight weekends of cutthroat racing in the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference, the Colorado State University Rams Cycling team has been crowned conference champions. The Rams took home the championship, winning nearly twice as many points as their nearest competitor and rival, Colorado University, with perennial powerhouse Fort Lewis College finishing third. 


USA Cycling and construction giant, the Ryan companies has announced the six athletes that will make up the Ryan Collegiate All-Stars at the Nature Valley Grand Prix, June 11-15. Devon Haskell of the University of Chicago, Anna McLoon of Harvard University, Amanda Miller of Colorado State University, Carla Swart of Lees-McRae College, Jennifer Stebbins of Dartmouth College and Chloe Forsman of the University of Arizona will make up the squad which was determined through final omnium standings at the USA Cycling Collegiate National Championships.

USA Cycling and the Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference welcome new leadership with the appointment of Dave Brown and Nathan Haslick as conference co-directors. Brown and Haslick will share the director roles of the Southeast Collegiate Conference, which encompasses Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Florida. Brown will focus his efforts on the spring collegiate road season while Haslick will manage the fall mountain bike and cyclo-cross seasons.

North Carolinaandrsquo;s Pfeiffer University has always offered an excellent liberal arts program. What most donandrsquo;t realize however is what the institution offers in addition to a top-notch well-rounded education; the opportunity to take full advantage of what Pfeifferandrsquo;s Head Cycling Coach calls a andldquo;cycling mecca.andrdquo; Located in the Village of Misenheimer, N.C., Pfeiffer University is a dream come true for the student cyclist. Two hours from the mountains and the beach, the area is bike friendly with long flats, rollers, and a nice series of 19% climbs within just a few miles of campus.

USA Cycling announces that tickets are now on sale for the Collegiate Tour Baby!, a film and fundraising tour to raise $500,000 for Collegiate Cycling and the Davis Phinney Foundation. Filmmaker Scott Coady will be visiting college towns all across the country on the 19-day Collegiate Tour Baby! journey. There are still a few dates available for teams or clubs to get involved and host a stop. For tickets, locations and the complete details, visit: www.collegiatetourbaby.com.