The men’s C team secured a second-place finish in the time trials before the men’s B team and women’s B/C team grabbed first place in their respective team time trials. The women of LSU Cycling also grabbed some attention with food science senior Samantha Stein’s first-place finish in the women’s C road race, placing her in the hunt for the overall title. The championship is only the second race LSU Cycling has ever hosted. With no time to waste, the women’s B and C fields raced together in what was the most highly-contested race of the day. Complete race results are available at the Louisiana and Mississippi Bicycle Racing Association’s website. The team time trials also provided an opportunity for LSU Cycling to shine Saturday. Last year, the club also hosted a SCCCC race, but this was the first championship ever held in Baton Rouge.
HSU cyclists Luke Ramseth, Hayley Umayam, Traci Kroll and Nate Abel head to Ogden, Utah this week to compete in the Collegiate Road National Championships. Ramseth was crowned the Division II Western Collegiate Cycling Conference Champion at regional championships in Reno, Nev. Kroll finished fifth in last year’s collegiate national criterium in Madison, Wisc. “Luke is leader of our national’s team,” said Vicky Sama, HSU Cycling Club faculty adviser and coach. The four teammates will race in the championship criterium on Saturday, May 5, and road race the next day. Sama said Abel will be strong in both the men’s 78-mile road race and 75-minute criterium. “Hayley is a strong climber, and is in shape to tackle the 62-mile road race with about 2500 feet of elevation gain,” Sama said.
The peloton consisted of five Washington riders and one Oregon rider, but Davis was able to win almost all of the primes, cutting down Plese’s lead to 9 points—if Davis were to win the race, she would win the omnium. Ryan Short (Western Washington) was in second place in the points race going into the weekend trailing leader, Jake MacArthur (Washington State), by a mere 63 points. The Cougars of Washington State put on the road race in Palouse, WA, while University of Idaho’s Vandals hosted the team time trial in Genesee, Idaho and the criterium on their campus in Moscow, ID. The 23-mile loop packed quite a punch with 1,500... The field stayed together through the first two laps, but an attack on the most difficult climb of the day brought three riders out of the pack: Short, and two Oregon riders, Dillon Caldwell and David Kuhns. Davis kept her lead for nearly 20 miles to take the win, closing the gap in the points race between her and Kelly Plese (Washington) to just 19 points. But in the end, Davis sprinted for third—and second in the overall—with Marissa Carr (Washington) sprinting for second. Nick Maslen (Oregon State) took the field sprint over Sean Mathew (Western Washington) and Christian Buesch (Oregon State). In the Men’s A race, the field stayed together until 10 laps to go, when Short initiated his attack, bringing three other riders with him. The race went on with attacks from Rebecca Johnson (Idaho) and Liz Cartwright (Gonzaga) attacking on the hills and the four Whitman riders holding a steady pace. Carla Schubiger (Washington State) and Marissa Carr (Washington) formed the chase group. In the evening team time trial, the men and women of Washington blazed the 12 mile out and back course to win the A fields. The attack stayed away for the remainder of the race, with Short taking the win over Caldwell and Kuhns placing third.
Spencer Schaber (MIT) and Joseph Reis (UVM) rode away from the field and came within 10 seconds of lapping the field, with a little held from their blocking teammates. Sophy Lee (Harvard) attacked the women’s field early in the race building a large gap only to be reeled in by the field. The elite races were some of the most memorable crit races of the season. Katie Quinn (MIT) then attacked half way through the 50 minute race, putting in a ferocious effort lapping the entire women’s A/B field and then passing them. The Men’s A made eight trips up that climb, adding up to over 7500 ft of climbing—shredding the field to leave Edward Grystar (Brown) alone riding in for victory.
