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High Schoolers Lettering in Singletrack

By Michael Frank, Adventure Journal on November 28th, 2011

The number of high schoolers in Colorado’s mountain bike racing league doubled in its second year and so has the number of girls. This follows a national trend where high school students are now increasingly being given the option to race mountain bikes as a varsity sport in lieu of more traditional team athletics. Not only is this good news for the future of mountain biking, it’s excellent news for any kid who might otherwise find herself stuck with only ball sports, which, unlike cycling, rarely carry forward into lifetime habits of good fitness. Colorado’s league is expanding to more high schools, and the National Interscholastic Cycling Association says what started as the NorCal High School Cycling League has spawned leagues in SoCal, Texas, Washington, and next year, Utah and Minnesota will join the fray.

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One Response to “High Schoolers Lettering in Singletrack”

  1. Alex November 30th, 2011 at 5:45 am

    It’s really sweet when national level organizations ignore Maine….. We’ve had a (public/private) high school bike league for at least 10 years and I don’t believe that it was brand new when I was racing as my school had several old courses that we were no longer using.