James Ceccorulli

Hey Steve, James here from PSU. Both schools have club sport teams that compete nationally. Both PSU and OSU compete in the NWCCC which is the conference for Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon schools. We contest four disciplines including: road, track, cross and Mountain. Our conference currently has a strong focus on road racing with a season that is six consecutive weekends. Of the 21 schools, about ten host various events that make up the race weekend. In any given weekend Saturday will consist of a road race and a team time trial with Sunday playing host to a criterium. PSU hosted an entire weekend this year with the road race and ttt at Hagg lake and the crit at Mt Tabor. After six straight weeks of this the strongest teams in the conference get a chance to send their strongest male and female riders to Nationals in mid-May. We also have a mountain bike season in late summer and early fall with Nationals in late October way over in North Carolina. In any event, PSU
participates in many OBRA events with some of our riders racing for various non-collegiate teams. Expect to see big things from us on the collegiate front in the next couple of years as we will be sending riders to all four national championships throughout the year. For more information: www.psucycling.com and http://users.moscow.com/wykoff/index2.htm

Subject: College Cycling
Date: 08/26/2008 07:30 AM
From: Steve Brown

I need a primer on College cycling. Even though I see posts about
OSU and PSU, is it a varsity sport or club level, who all has teams,
is there a league or do teams race as teams in OBRA stuff?

Steve Brown

Anita Dilles

Steve,
At most universities, cycling is a club sport. In Oregon, the universities
that have active teams are University of Oregon, Oregon State University,
and Portland State. Portland Community College also has a few members on a
team.

The Oregon Collegiate teams are part of the Northwest Collegiate Cycling
Conference (NWCCC), which includes Washington, Idaho, and Montana. The
biggest season for us is the road season, which lasts for six weekends
during Spring Term. Each weekend, a different school, or pairing of
schools, hosts a race weekend that includes a road race, team time trial,
and crit. Each weekend, the teams in the conference travel and stay in host
housing (when they can find it) at these different locations. The NWCCC is
a USAC affiliated body.

Some students choose to race only for their collegiate team, and thus race
in OBRA races with their collegiate kit. Other racers, such as myself, have
two teams - the collegiate team as well as a local (non-collegiate) racing
team.

Collegiate racers may also compete at the national level in at least road,
track, and cyclocross, and I believe also in mountain.

Hope this helps demystify collegiate racing!

Anita
PSU Cycling
VP of Finance 2008-'09
anita.dilles@gmail.com
503-863-8377

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Steve Brown
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> I need a primer on College cycling. Even though I see posts about
> OSU and PSU, is it a varsity sport or club level, who all has teams,
> is there a league or do teams race as teams in OBRA stuff?
>
>
> Steve Brown
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Steve Brown

I need a primer on College cycling. Even though I see posts about
OSU and PSU, is it a varsity sport or club level, who all has teams,
is there a league or do teams race as teams in OBRA stuff?

Steve Brown