Cara winning the 2019 Collegiate Road Race Championship.
Credit: Dylan Stucki
Women’s TTT: 5th
Women’s RR: 1st
Women’s crit: 2nd
Women’s individual omnium: 1st (by ONE point!)
Men’s TTT: 4th
Team omnium: 4th
What more needs to be said?
BEAR DOWN!
We knocked the fundraiser out of the park with $5,232 raised! We also closed out the regular season with numerous wins at crit regionals and wrapped up the team omnium. 10 of us (new member Alyssa Grace is joining us for the ITT and TTT) head off next weekend to Augusta, GA to bring home some titles! A big thanks to several anonymous donors (you know who you are!) as well as:
| Leo Carrillo |
| Natalie O’Farrell |
| Daniel Quigley |
| Gary Sax |
| Dan Orlowski |
| Craig Harding |
| John HEALY |
| Deseray Ford |
| Alex Neuwirt |
| Andrew Milligan |
| Toetie Oberman |
| Cindy Beard |
| Alan Fischer |
| Sean Kneale |
| Dave Burnett |
| Thomas Brocco |
| Charles Franz |
| Melanie Colavito |
| Steve Herzog |
| Chelsea Hoglund |
| Eric Pearce |
| Brian Wilver |
| Matt Stoner |
| Michael McKisson |
| Sharon Ogan |
| Gregory Welch |
| Sherman Scurry, MD (Orange Grove Pediatrics) |
| Chloe Woodruff |
| Mike Parrish |
| Bill Heob |
| David Castro |
| John C Harrison |
| David Bixby |
| Steve Wetmore |
| David DiMattio |
You’re support made this trip possible, and for that we are incredibly grateful. We’ll keep you posted!
It may be March, but collegiate road nationals in Augusta, GA is right around the corner on May 10-12! And we are STOKED! Last year saw us win the women’s team trial (Cara, Chloe, Shelby, and Kat) and Cara landed on the road race podium in 5th. We’re aiming to defend our TTT and add a few more jerseys to our collection. To do so, we’ll be bringing a killer squad:
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Men’s captain: Joey Iuliano Year: 4 yr PhD Major: Geography and Urban Planning Events: TTT, Road race |
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Adam Bryfogle Year: Sophomore Major: Computer Science Events: Road race, Crit, alt. for TTT |
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John Noonan Year: 2 yr PhD Major: Planetary Sciences Events: TTT, Road race, Crit |
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Wouter Zwart* Year: 3 yr Law Major: Law Events: TTT, Road race, Crit |
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Marcello Cesario Year: Junior Major: CLAS Events: TTT, Road race, Crit |
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Collin DiMattio* Year: Freshman Major: Physiology Events: ITT, Road race, crit alternate |
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Women’s captain: Cara O’Neill Year: Sophomore Major: Biochemistry Events: TTT, Road Race, Crit |
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Shelby Hoglund Year: 1 yr PhD Major: Soil, Water, and Environmental Science Events: TTT, Road Race, Crit (?) |
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Chloe Welch Year: Sophomore Major: Natural Resources Events: TTT, Road Race, Crit |
*denotes rider’s first collegiate road nationals.
All photos (minus Joey, John, Collin, and Adam) from Damion Alexander
Our home race is next weekend, featuring a challenging road race in Oracle, AZ and a criterium in the heart of the UA’s campus. We have cash prizes provided by Oracle Ford, Oracle Land and Home, prizes from Skratch, Fair Wheel Bikes (plus cash primes!), Sabino Cycles ($$$ gift cards!), Ritchey, Radical Threads, Jimmy Johns, Oracle, Patio Cafe, Beyond Bread, UA College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture, and R-Bar!
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Grayson Hughes, Tim Maley, Cara O’Neill, and John Noonan represented the Wildcats in Louisville, KY at the cyclocross national championships. Cara rode to a fine second place in the women’s race on Thursday and the team (Grayson, Cara, and Tim) defended the team’s relay title on Saturday. Additionally, we finished second to CSU in the team omnium (the sum of points across the women’s, men’s, and relay events) by just 1 point!
Have a safe break and we’ll see you at the first team meeting on 1/10 at 6pm in Harvill 240!
We’re excited for the 2018-19 school year to start and can’t wait to meet all our new members! Want to learn more about the team? Find us at Bash at the Rec on Sunday, 8/19 on Sitton Field from 7-10 pm. Or, come to our info meeting on 8/23 at 6 pm in Harvill 240.
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A picture speaks a thousand words! Here’s are women’s team on the top step for the team time trial!
Nationals are this weekend! We’ll be heading up to Grand Junction, CO for 3 days of racing. You can follow along on social media using the #collnats tag on Twitter and Facebook.
But first- we need to thank everyone who made this trip possible. 47 donors helped us raise $4,589- that’s 131% of our original goal! We couldn’t have done it without the support from:
Andrea Achilli
John Bailiff
Carolina Baldwin
Jane Berger
David Burke
David Castro
Melanie & Kyle Colavito
Joly Dixon
Anthea Dixon Crowdes
Reg Dowdall
Richard Ellwanger
Lilian Engel
Edward Nippy Feldhake III
Amy Fitch-Heacock
Marc Fleischman
Deseray Ford
Thomas Gosnell
Steve Herzog
Ben Hobson
Chelsea Hoglund
Patrick Homer
Mark Kear
Bruce Larose
Bryan Little
Lorna Macquarrie
Chris McGehee
Natalie O’Farrell
Christopher O’Neill
Dan Orlowski
Daniel Quigley
Robin & Rob Salthouse
Kat Salthouse
Pablo Sanchez Soria
Gary Sax
Melody Sooter
Matt Stoner
Rick & Carmela Talbot
Steven Terry
Richard Truex
Richard Underwood
Lou Waugaman
Charles Weesner
Steve Wetmore
Chloe Woodruff
And several anonymous donors!
We’re taking an all-star crew to the 2018 collegiate road national championships in Grand Junction, CO (May 4-6, 2018). Our line up:
Kat Salthouse-Montaney
Year: Grad
Major: MS MIS
Events: TTT, Road Race, Crit
Cara O’Neill
Year: Freshman
Major: Biochem
Events: TTT, Road Race, Crit
Brianna Talbot
Year: Senior
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Events: ITT/TTT, Road Race
Sydney Friedman
Year: Senior
Major: Psychology/Math
Events: TTT, Road Race, Crit
Chloe Welch
Year: Freshman
Major: Anthropology
Events: TTT, Road Race, Crit
Shelby Hoglund
Year: Grad, MS
Major: SWES
Events: TTT, Road Race
Adam Bryfogle
Year: Freshman
Major: Physiology
Events: Road race, Crit (maybe TTT)
Nikita Lindgren
Year: Senior
Major: Economics
Events: TTT, Road Race
Joey Iuliano
Year: PhD
Major: Geography/Planning
Events: TTT, Road Race, Crit
Marcello Cesario
Year: Sophomore
Major: Physics
Events: TTT, Road Race, Crit
What about BMX you ask? For the first time ever in team history, we sent a member to BMX nationals in West Monroe, LA! Robbie Spanyard finished 5th on Saturday but was crashed out on Sunday during the qualification rounds. He still finished 11th after two days of racing!
What about road? Well, we’re still dominating there as well. Cara O’Neill has a lock on the women’s A points race and on the men’s side Adam Bryfogle is in the lead (over 4 of his UA teammates)! Just two weekends of collegiate racing remain before we get ready for road nationals.