The CCB p/b Levine Legislation Group elite ladies’s biking crew confirmed a 10-rider roster for 2025, the under-23 improvement programme centered on making ready riders for qualification on the inaugural U23 ladies’s class occasions on the UCI Highway World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda subsequent September 21-28.
Three new additions to the roster embrace a trio of US riders led by Makayla MacPherson, Katherine ‘Kat’ Sarkisov and rising junior Jorja Bond. Returning riders embrace Cécile Lejeune of France and a full solid of US riders Elizabeth Grier, Sabrina Hayes, Katherine Rusch, Cassidy Hickey, Lizzy Gunsalus and Ella Brenneman.
Sarkisov, who competed on the highway the final two seasons at Cynisca Biking, gained the crash-marred U23 ladies’s title 10 days in the past at US Cyclocross Nationals. Driving ‘cross for CXD Trek Bikes, Sarkisov collided on the end line with Hickey, who was relegated to 3rd place by race officers. Each riders have been confirmed to have suffered bruising and minor accidents after the crash.
At 21 years of age, MacPherson is already a veteran within the peloton having raced two years on the WorldTour degree with Human Powered Well being. This final season with DNA Professional Biking, the California native raced a heavy schedule of criteriums, scoring podiums at Boise Twilight and Salt Lake criteriums.
Bond, an 18-year-old from Colorado, competed for Boulder Junior Biking in 2024 and took a silver medal at US highway nationals within the ladies’s junior 17-18 highway race.
The crew will proceed a various calendar of highway, criterium and gravel occasions in 2025. Lejeune, who gained the GC on the Oregon Path Gravel stage race final yr, will shift her focus completely to gravel within the new yr, as she was chosen to compete within the Life Time Grand Prix.
“Our major purpose is to organize our athletes for the following step of their careers, whether or not meaning incomes skilled contracts or competing on the world stage,” mentioned crew Sports activities Director Lauren LeClaire. The CCB crew has been instrumental in graduating 18 riders to skilled ranks previously seven years.
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Levine Legislation Group of Mooresville, N.C. stays the crew’s presenting sponsor, alongside companions Basis Biking, Associates & Household Dental of East Windfall, Rhode Island, ProThirteen Teaching and the Natural Pure Store. The crew’s technical partnerships embrace Shimano, Sportful, Enduro Bearings, Lazer nand Schwalbe.
Washington, D.C. named host for 2025-2026 Pan-American Cyclocross Championships
A have a look at the Missoula, Montana course used for the previous two editions of the Pan American Cyclocross Championships (Picture credit score: Myke Hermsmeyer)
The Pan American Biking Confederation introduced this week that Washington, D.C., was named to host the following two rounds of the Pan American Cyclocross Championships, happening in 2025 and 2026.
Subsequent yr’s Pan American CX Championships are scheduled for Saturday, November 8, with a UCI C2 occasion scheduled on November 9. The weekend of occasions can be held on the historic grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Residence, the positioning of President Lincoln’s Summer time Cottage and a residential group for US veterans since 1851. Lately the identical venue has hosted cyclocross races on the US schedule, DCCX.
“CXD Trek Bikes and our companions DCMTB and Crosshairs Biking are excited to deliver the Pan American Cyclocross Championships to the Mid-Atlantic and Washington, DC,” mentioned Invoice Schieken, founding father of Crosshairs Biking.
“DCCX is traditionally one among North America’s largest cyclocross occasions, and we will not wait to host COPACI member racers on the iconic Armed Forces Retirement Residence.”
Missoula, Montana hosted the Pan American Championships the final two years, with titles awarded in Masters classes 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64 and 65+, alongside junior, under-23 and elite UCI classes.
In 2025, the Pan Ams will add a UCI Staff Relay Continental Championship occasion, which was first launched on the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in 2023.
Tucson Bicycle Traditional 2025
Challenge Echelon Racing throughout stage 2’s Sahuarita Highway Race at 2024 Tucson Bicycle Traditional (Picture credit score: Challenge Echelon Racing/ SnowyMountain Images)
The Tucson Bicycle Traditional in Arizona expands to 4 phases on its thirty seventh version in 2025, working February 21-23, with a brand new time trial route and a first-ever criterium for choose classes held back-to-back on the opening day.
The three-day occasion for elite men and women unfolds Friday to set the final classification with a 4.5-mile (7.2km) Marana Time Trial, set on a flat point-to-point route northwest of downtown Tucson.
On Friday night, the doubleheader culminates with the Rio Nuevo Criterium introduced by Go to Tucson. Along with the elite classes, the quick, technical course within the metropolis’s downtown space will embrace races for 2 newbie males’s divisions (cat 2-3 and masters 40-plus).
The Sahuarita Highway Race returns on Saturday with the 20.5-mile (33km) loop, utilizing new tarmac throughout the Inexperienced Valley on the south aspect of Tucson.
General winners will probably be selected Sunday after the Oro Valley Circuit Race introduced by Rutledge Dental. Organisers plan to incorporate a brief, uphill end on Musette Drive in Naranja Park and shorten the course, which takes place on the north aspect of Tucson.
Registration for all classes opened on December 20, with a 20% low cost supplied till January 1, 2025.
Final yr Brendan Rhim (Challenge Echelon Racing) gained the general for elite males whereas Sofia Arreola (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) gained the title for elite ladies.
