Fall 2013 Schedule

For those who are curious about the upcoming mountain bike season, look no further:

Aug 17th- 12 hour race - Flagstaff, AZ
Aug 31-Sept 2nd: Conference Retreat in Sedona, AZ
Sept 7 - Back to School Special - Angel Fire, NM
Sept 8 - Downhill Race - Angel Fire, NM
Spet 14- Tentative STXC- NMSU (Las Cruces, NM)
Sept 15 - Horny Toad Hustle - Las Cruces, NM
Sept 21- Tentative NAU race
Sept 22- Open date (coincides with Kitt Peak ITT)
Sept 28 - High Desert Screamer - Gallup, NM
Sept 29- Tentative race in Gallup, NM
Oct 5-6: Open weekend
Oct 12-13: UA Races (Conference Champs)
Oct 25-27 - MTB Natl Championship - Banner Elk, NC

The calendar page has been updated as well.

A big announcement...

After 6 years as Conference Director and a few years as unofficial director, I decided a few weeks ago that it was time to step down and let someone else have the fun of being CD.  The National Collegiate Cycling Manager, Jeffrey Hansen, has appointed the Assistant CD, Joey Iuliano, to become the full-time Conference Director.  Many of you are familiar with Joey as he has implemented the conference meeting and the facebook page, among other Initiatives.  He will also be the SW's first CD who will be racing collegiately at the same time (which occurs in other conferences frequently).

I will be working with Joey through the end of the mtb season, transitioning the responsibilities. He will be attending the mtb events also in the fall.   So please feel free to start contacting him about conference activities and concerns.

With the current teams' growth and good leadership, as well as the new teams that are coming into the SW this fall, I am very confident that the SW is in great hands.  Thank you all so much for making my job pretty fun.

Nancy

A belated congrats to all the Nationals riders

see the results and writeupn on the event here: http://www.usacycling.org/antonneaus-third-omnium-win-caps-usa-cycling-collegiate-road-nats.htm

Of course you can read about the SW experience on the FB page...

Thanks go to Joey for pitching in a lot when I was away for work, and to all the riders for another great road season!

Updated corrected points

All -

The updated Adoption Exchange Men's A crit results & the associated points have been updated (thanks Constantin!).

The last race of the season - the SWCCC Championship Criterium - is this weekend!  Double points, plus the last chance for those of you As to get your last required race in if you want to meet the eligibility requirements for Nationals.

Joey will have the trophies and the medals (I will be out of town for work), and I will be able to authorize National riders to be able to register as soon as I get a copy of the results.

Have a great race this weekend! 

Preliminary MTB schedule

has been posted on the calendar page.  Obviously, this is tentative, but as all the NM races have (generously) included collegiate categories, I have included them on the page for planning purposes.  Please let us know if you have any additions/changes, thanks!

Lots of things this post

Thanks to all who came out to the Adoption Exchange races this past weekend!  And a big thanks to Silvio Mendes to including them again this year.  Also it was great seeing a few UNM and NMSU riders out there!

I have posted a link to the overall results on the calendar page, as well as a separate page for the collegiate-only results.

It looks as if there were a few snafus ... for the crit (men's A's), only the collegiate winner was scored.  I know that the rest of you started, but were pulled by the officials.  Unfortunately, they did not give you a place.  So in the interest of calculating points, everyone else was scored as being in second place and received the same number of points (64).  The winner received 70 points.  If one or more of you remember which order you were pulled, please let me know and I will correct the results/points.  I have some recollection of the order, but I am not sure.

Also, for the women's A road race results, Stefanie was not scored (how rude!).  I know that she and Sarah went by at the finish, but I do not know who finished first.  So if you could let me know that, I would appreciate it.

The points are up, based on the incomplete (incorrect?) results.

To date, the A riders who have qualified for Nationals (3 or more races as an A for mass start events at Natls) are:

Men:  Joey Iuliano, Jake McLaughlin, Spencer Crites, David Carlson
Women: Reiley Pankrtaz, Stefanie Sichler

The following need one more race:  Nathan Franklin, Constantin Schreiber, Max Rich, Andrew Keller, Allison Alterman, Shelby Hoglund, Sarah Muench  

Please remember, this is only to establish your eligibility, but right now it looks as if everyone who meets the eligibility requirements will be able to attend, based on the SW conference allocations.  Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Joey Iuliano has established a FB page for the conference:


https://www.facebook.com/groups/swccc/

Also, he hosted our first ever face to face conference meeting in ABQ after Saturday's races.  I have not posted the link to the brief minutes on this page yet, but Joey has posted them on FB

And for his experience in collegiate cycling at Purdue and Arizona, as well as his leadership within the conference, he has been named as Assistant Conference Director by USA Cycling.  Congrats Joey!  We will be dividing some of the responsibilities for the conference in the near future. 

One last thing (really!) - in addition to this page and FB, we are also going to try to communicate using Google Groups.  We have been told that some riders, advisers, etc. do not check this page very often and/or do not use FB, so we need to also get the message out in another format.  So please join Google Groups for the conference at your earliest convenience.

Thanks for reading!

New points are up....

on the points page - sorry for the delay.  A bit of flipping at the top of the point totals!  South Mountain and Trifecta results were posted last week.  Congrats to all the racers and the SW RR Champions!

Next race weekend up will be the Adoption Exchange races in NM on April 6th & 7th - hope to see you all there!