From vicki@geophys.washington.edu Mon May 18 14:23:39 1998 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id OAA83440 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:23:38 -0700 Received: from cloud.geophys.washington.edu (cloud.geophys.washington.edu [128.95.16.161]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with ESMTP id OAA10157 for ; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:23:38 -0700 Received: from localhost by cloud.geophys.washington.edu (8.8.4/UW-NDC Revision: 2.30v8.8) id OAA27562; Mon, 18 May 1998 14:23:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cloud.geophys.washington.edu: vicki owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:23:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Vicki Schroeder To: uwracing@u.washington.edu Subject: Road nationals TTT and final results Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi all Here are more general reports. Vicki --------------------------------- http://www.greatoutdoors.com/velonews/thisjustin/index.htm This report filed May 17, 1998 Colorado reclaims collegiate road title By Bryan Jew The University of Colorado grabbed control of the 1998 National Collegiate Road Championships in Greenville, South Carolina, at the team time trial on Sunday morning, and then held on in the afternoon's downtown criterium to claim its first overall team road title since 1993. The women led the way for Colorado, winning the 12-mile team time trial over last year's TTT champion, the University of Washington. Starting fourth, two minutes after Stanford, the Colorado women were able to key off of Stanford's time splits and suffer through the pain to record the fastest time of the day, 29:36. As they did last year, Washington started only three women to Colorado and Stanford's four, yet still managed to post the second fastest time of the day, 29:47, and bump Stanford into third place. Colorado men's team was the fourth to start, and they set the standard to that point, covering the distance in 26:03. However, shortly after Colorado, Texas blazed home in 25:28, a time that wasn't challenged by anyone else. The win was sweet redemption for the Texas riders, who were disappointed when Will Letendre and Andrew Willis dropped out of Saturday's road race following a long breakaway effort. Things would only get better for them in the afternoon's criterium. The women were up first on fast, one-kilometer downtown circuit, and Stanford picked up where they left off in Saturday's road race. The trio of Megan Troxell, Cynthia Ferguson and Christine Thorburn attacked the field repeatedly, and it finally paid off when Troxell escaped on a prime lap. She was quickly marked by Colorado's Erin Alexander, and a lap later they were joined by Florida's Jody Radkewich. With Alexander and Troxell playing tactics, Radkewich was able to solo away with 20 minutes left in the hour-plus-five-laps race. A former track runner who has only been racing bikes for eight months, Radkewich proceeded to run away with the race. The Florida rider lapped the field with six laps to go, and tucked in safely to take the national collegiate criterium championship. Troxell outsprinted Alexander to take second place. The 90-minute men's criterium was animated by Arizona's Justin Peschka, who was on the attack throughout the entire race. Not known for his sprinting, Peschka decided "to be a pain in the ass for two hours." He was just that, but the critical move didn't come until there were 15 minutes left in the race, when Northern Colorado's Scott Southworth and UCLA's John Nobil went on the attack. Within five laps they were joined by five more riders: John Bailey (Colorado St.), Michael Easter (California-Santa Barbara), Paul Read (Texas), Robert Dapice (Dartmouth) and ... Peschka. In the end, however, the day would belong to Texas's Read. Read and Easter attacked with four laps to go, just as the break was about to be swallowed up. Peschka bridged a lap later, setting up the final three-man break. At the finish, it was Read coming around Easter for the win, adding the criterium championship to the team time trial championship he had won earlier in the day. Colorado easily defended its points lead to win the team championship, while Yale's Jacob Hacker and Stanford's Ferguson were the men's and women's individual omnium champions, respectively. 1998 NATIONAL COLLEGIATE CYCLING CHAMPIONSHIPS, Greenville, SC. May 16-17. Team time trial Men: 1. Texas, 12 mi in 25:28.94; 2. Colorado, 26:03.60; 3. California-Davis, 26:33.61; 4. Florida, 26:47.06; 5. Indiana, 26:47.33. Women: 1. Colorado, 12 mi in 29:35.95; 2. Washington, 29:47.67; 3. Stanford, 29:58.51; 4. Florida, 30:54.54; 5. California-Davis, 31:44.28. Criterium Men: 1. Paul Read, Texas; 2. Michael Easter, California-Santa Barbara; 3. Justin Peschka, Arizona; 4. Les Akins, Midwestern St.; 5. Jacob Hacker, Yale. Women: 1. Jody Radkewich, Florida; 2. Megan Troxell, Stanford; 3. Erin Alexander, Colorado; 4. Jennifer Morris, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.-Indianapolis; 5. Jenny Eyerman, California-San Diego. Individual omnium Men: 1. Hacker; 2. Donny Lopez, Penn St.; 3. Akins; 4. Christopher Larsen, Virginia Tech; 5. Jeff King, Colorado. Women: 1. Cynthia Ferguson, Stanford; 2. Eyerman; 3. Alexander; 4. Troxell; 5. Mina Pizzini, Pennsylvania. Team omnium 1. Colorado; 2. Stanford; 3. Florida; 4. California-Davis; 5. California-Santa Barbara. +=====================================================+ By helping to support this list, you are entered into monthly sweepstakes for bicycling products donated by sponsors. 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