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Humboldt State Hosts 2nd Annual Race For Ridge Trail
Great Pics By Jason Barnes
Full Results In .pdf
2011 HSU XC RESULTS
2011 HSU SHORT TRACK RESULTS
2011 HSU SUPER D RESULTS
2011 HSU DOWNHILL RESULTS
Top speed in DH radar trap by race winner Jake HinSICKY!
Thanks to all organizers and participants who helped make this an awesome event.
Stay tuned for mid season race report.
Go Jacks!
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Humboldt State University Cycling Club racer Traci Kroll earned a spot on the coveted winner’s podium at the Collegiate Cycling National Road Race Championships in Madison, Wisc. this weekend. Kroll finished fifth in the National Championship Criterium, on Sunday. Incredible, considering this was Kroll’s first time at National Championships.
Kroll competed against 38 of the top cyclists in Division II schools in the hour-long bike race– a hard, fast sprint around a mile-long loop.
In the last lap, Kroll was in ideal position toward the head of the peloton, which started to string out as it surged like a rocket up a hill to the finish line. It was a close finish sprint for Kroll and the women in the front if the pack. “I jumped early and I think if I waited a little bit longer, I could have finished fourth,” said Kroll.
Kroll finished nineteenth in Friday’s national championship road race, which earned her enough points to be ranked 9th over all the Div. II women.
Kroll’s HSU teammates Ryan Spaulding and Ben Barry also competed at Nationals, completing both the Men’s Division II road race and criterium. “I was near the front in the second to last corner, but I got squeezed to the curb, hit the breaks and 20 guys came around me,” said Spaulding who finished 45th in the crit out of 81 riders. He finished 29th in Friday’s road race. “That was really hard. I’m glad I survived,” said Barry after finishing 49th in Sunday’s crit that ended in a high speed crash. Barry finished 47th in the road race. The top 50 riders in each field earned points toward the individual and team omnium. HSU finished 18th among 41 Division II schools participating at Nationals.
“I’m proud of our three riders,” said Vicky Sama, club faculty adviser and coach. “The goal this year was simply to finish the races, and we exceeded that.”
Sama says the HSU Cycling Club expects to have more of its riders compete at National Road Championships next year. “Our club is growing and improving,” she said. “We rely on the support of HSU’s Clubs Office, Associated Students, our cycling conference colleagues, and of course our local team sponsors to allow incredible opportunities like this for our students. It’s amazing to see our Jacks compete with the best collegiate cyclists in the country.”
Kroll received a hardy round USA Cycling medal for her National’s fifth place crit finish. She plans to race her bike this summer in the Bay area and return to race with HSU’s Cycling Team in the fall.
Congratulations to HSU Cycling Club for winning the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference Div. II Championships for yet another season! The team raced well in both in Saturday’s road race in Hollister and Sunday’s criterium in Morgan Hill at the conference championships hosted by Stanford University this weekend.
Congratulations to Ryan Spaulding for being crowned the well-deserved overall Div. II omnium men’s champion and to Traci Kroll for winning the Div. II women’s omnium.They each received a medal and a lucite championship star. Ben Barry finished second place in the omnium, which means all three will get the honor of being called to the front of the start line at the National Collegiate Cycling Championships in Madison, Wisc. in May. That will give them a good start place over the hundred or so cyclists in their field. That’s super cool!
Awesome racing this weekend by Josh Schultz who survived flipping over bushes and finished with the pack in the wicked-fast Men’s B crit; Nate Abel who kicked butt in the road race and proved in the crit that rabbit ears can be aerodynamic; Michael Malocha and Gianpaul Ferioli for putting the hammer down in the crit and getting 4th and 5th places; Tim Davidson who was aggressive and in excellent position in the Men’s C crit; Jamie Lira for winning a crit prime in Women B and for convincing her parents to house the team; Joseph Lamb who experienced his first and last collegiate race… and finished; and Kristoffer Dean who had way too much fun flying downhill in the road race and is always a cheerleader for his teammates.
The team and our riders won in Div. II but also finished impressively among the Division I schools, so check out the full race results and overall points on the WCCC website: http://www.wccc-info.com/
If you didn’t seem them already, check out the live race updates I posted yesterday and pics on the Humboldt State Cycling Club facebook site. Videos of all crit finishes will be posted soon.
What a great way to end the regional collegiate cycling season! Best of luck to Ryan, Ben and Traci as they represent HSU at national championships in two weeks.
Thanks to all of our riders who participated in races this semester and your families and friends who came out and supported you these past weeks. Thanks also to Evan Gibbs who was extremely valuable with helping the team at the races and to Moose for being such a cycling lover and calming our nerves when we need it most.
Don’t forget we have the Tour of the Unknown Coast, another meeting and a post-season party to plan!
Big hugs,
Vicky
Despite a potporri of inclement weather throughout the weekend the HSU Road Race went very well. Great racing was had in all three of the weekend’s events. Check out great race updates on Humboldt Cycling’s Facebook as well as professional photo galleries by Vic Armijo and Jason Barnes.
Humboldt State University Cycling Club HOMETOWN BICYCLE RACE RESULTS
More than 90 cyclists from eight universities participated in weekend races hosted by HSU’s Cycling Club in Loleta on Saturday, March 19 and on campus on Sunday, March 20. Bike racers came from Stanford, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Cal Poly, Sac State, UC Santa Cruz, University of Nevada/Reno, Butte and HSU.
HSU’s green and gold cycling jerseys dominated the pack in Sunday’s criterium on campus. Steven Pearl won the Men’s C category crit, a race where cyclists made several laps up B Street, through the Library parking lot, down LK Wood Blvd., then on Harpst Street. Pearl rode strong all weekend and got second place in Saturday’s road race in Loleta, while teammate Josh Schultz got third. Their podium finishes came with the help of fellow HSU riders Justin Graves, Nate Abel, Steve Allen and Tim Davidson, who worked to pull their teammates to the front of the pack over the course of the 38-mile race in the pouring rain.
Ryan Spaulding was among the top ten finishers in both his first Men’s A category road race and criterium. Spaulding gained enough points in races earlier this season to move up to the highest category in collegiate cycling. His participation in Saturday and Sunday’s events qualify him to race in the National Collegiate Cycling Championships in Madison, Wisc., to be held in May.
HSU’s women were a powerhouse in the hometown races this weekend. Traci Kroll won the Women’s B criterium on Sunday after winning Saturday’s 29-mile road race. Her teammate Jamie Lira finished second place in the road race. Leandra Lopez finished second in the Women’s C category criterium, and in Saturday’s road race, Irene Kerber finished her first collegiate cycling race ever, despite the cold, wind and rain that forced several newer riders to abandon.
HSU had the home-team advantage as well in the Men’s D category, as Joe Mulleary won Saturday’s road race and Sunday’s crit against riders from UC Berkeley, Sac State, UC Santa Cruz and Stanford. Gianpaul Ferioli got fifth in Sunday’s campus crit in that same category.
Hosting a bike race is a big undertaking. HSU Cycling Club couldn’t have put on the race without the volunteer efforts of the club members and without the help from community supporters. Special thanks go to Jennifer Johnson, Jeff Farnham and Chris Johnson of Adventures Edge, Wallie Coppini with the Loleta Chamber of Commerce, Vic Armijo of Team Bigfoot, Rob Van Kirk, the chief official for the bike race, UPD Chief Tom Dewey, Jan Henry from HSU Sports Clubs and Humboldt State University for allowing the criterium to be held on campus. As far as we know, it was the first time ever that there was a bike race held on campus. The cycling club hopes to hold more events like these in the future.
March 19th and 20th HSU Cycling, with the support of Adventure’s Edge and Corsetti and Noyes, brings Humboldt County a USA Cycling listed Road Race. Saturday will be a circuit race through Loleta, followed by a hill climb time trial up Thompkins Hill. Sunday will be a exciting criterium on the HSU Campus from 8am-2pm. We invite all to participate in categories for the public and come cheer on the HSU Lumberjacks.
HSU finished strong in women’s and men’s races this weekend at UC Berkeley, pulling away with top-ten finishes and points in well-attended events.
Ryan “The Diesel” Spaulding placed 5th in Saturday’s road race after breaking away with a few riders up the brutal McEwen Road hill. He finished 10th in Sunday’s criterium, missing out on a five-man breakaway dominated by UC Davis after getting stuck behind a crash in the second lap. His chase group at one point was 24 seconds behind the break but recovered more than half that time with hard pulls from Spaulding and Cal team riders.
HSU women racked in the points in Saturday’s road race. Traci Kroll surged at the line to get 2nd place in the Women’s B race while teammate Jamie Lira finished 7th in a field of 16 racers. In the Women’s C race, Martina Glaros finished 8th followed by Elena Dolitsky in 9th in a field of 17 riders.
Lira powered to 4th place in Sunday’s criterium in downtown Berkeley after scoring three primes in the Women’s B field. Kroll finished 6th, and Dolitsky got 7th in the Women’s C crit.
HSU’s Men’s C squad has grown to 5 as more of our riders move up in the categories. In Saturday’s road race, Steven Pearl finished an impressive 5th place, Josh Schultz got 15th and Nate Abel got 20th out of a field of 51 riders. Tim Davidson finished 26th and Steve Allen finished 29th– both men racing the C category for the first time.
On Sunday, Pearl shined again with a 6th place finish in the downtown crit, followed by teammate Schultz in 7th place. Nate Abel took some hard pulls during the race to help protect his teammates and finished 19th. Davidson rode a strong race and finished 17. Allen got 23rd.
The Men’s D field was one of the largest of the day on Saturday– 54 riders strong. Robert Combs helped his teammate Kristoffer Dean finish the race– Dean’s first bike race ever. Kudos.
And finally, Sunday’s downtown crit included a traditional alumni race that included about a dozen riders who graduated from UC Davis, Berkeley, Sac State and Humboldt (some who have since turned pro– ouch!). Evan Gibbs, Vicky Sama, Jorge Ramirez and Josh Schultz wore their HSU colors (Sama had on her CU Boulder jersey and HSU shorts)… and raced the back downhill turn at mock speeds. Sama won the HSU prime and will bring the goodies to this weekend’s race for all to enjoy.
Here’s a video of the Men’s C crit finish:
For more photos, go to the Humboldt State Cycling facebook site.
Although the road race was canceled Humboldt State attended and represented at the UCSC Criterium. Congratulations to Jamie Lira for winning the Women’s C criterium hosted this weekend by UC Santa Cruz! She not only won the race, she won two of the three primes! Traci Kroll finished 7th in her first Women’s B crit (a day after capturing 4th and a prime win in a Cat 4 crit in Merced.)
Congrats to HSU’s men’s team for top ten finishes! Josh Schultz grabbed 8th in Men’s C (and also awesome finish in Merced on Satuday). In Men’s D at the UCSC race in Salinas, Gianpaul Ferioli got 8th, Steve Allen 9th (with 2nd place prime) and Tim Davidson 12th (with prime win). Kevin Pabinquit had a strong pack finish, giving HSU well-earned points toward the conference standings.
Way to go team!
Berkeley is this coming weekend and then the HSU home race is March 19 and 20. Get ready!
Again K. Pab provides the hi resolution news solution.
Video Report By Kevin Pabinquit…
View More Pics From This Event At HSU Club Member’s Flickr
HSU ladies team finished 1, 2, 3 in Sunday’s crit in downtown Sacramento, while the men took top ten in B, C and D categories. In a long sprint to the line, Traci Kroll won the women’s category C, 30-minute crit at William Land Park, in her first-ever collegiate race against more than 25 women riders, the largest group of women B or C racers ever in a conference crit, according to WCCC director Hanns Hartman. Jamie Lira came in second and Kaydee Raths third, for a podium sweep for HSU. Elena Dolitsky and Martina Glaros finished 10th and 11th, proving those weekend crit practices certainly prepared us our first race of the season.
Ryan Spaulding was on fire picking up points left and right in the Men’s B crit on Sunday, finishing third in the field spring and winning a prime and getting second in another prime. He finished an impressive 5th in Saturday’s road race after getting in an early break with only a few strong riders.
Steve Pearl finished 3rd in Saturday’s 31-mile road race in Livermore. He finished 12th in Sunday’s Men’s C crit, narrowly escaping a crash that forced him to bridge up to the lead break. Teammates Josh Schultz and Nate Abel also had strong finishes in both races– but as of press time, their results were not posted.
HSU dominated the Men’s D field, which was 70-men strong, so the race directors split it into two groups of cyclists with odd and even race numbers. Tim Davidson got 5th in Sunday’s crit after finishing 23rd in Saturday’s road race. Kevin Pabinquit got 7th in the crit and 20th in the road race. Steve Allen got 7th in the crit and picked up more points by getting a 3rd place prime. Michael Malocha finished 9th in the crit and 29th in the road race. Gianpaul Ferioli and Robert Coombs finished in top 20s in both races.
These were incredible results all around, especially considering most of our riders were participating in their first-ever collegiate road races. With the experience gained, HSU is bound to be better at the next one!
Thanks to alum Evan Gibbs for invaluable help organizing the team at the races.
The HSU Cycling Team headed out yesterday for their first race of 2011. Riders got to the Davis area early to pre ride the road course and spin out the legs before Saturday’s road race. Look for results soon.
