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Team News!!!
MIDWESTERN STATE WINS TWO NATIONAL CYCLING
CHAMPIONSHIPS
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Two Midwestern State
cyclists won national titles over the weekend at USA Cycling’s
Collegiate National Road Cycling Championships.
Freshman Alex Boyd won Saturday’s 84-mile
road race in 90-degree heat. He rode away from a breakaway group
with four other riders that had amassed a two-minute lead on the
field and rode solo for the last 17 miles of the race.
“We were working together pretty well until
the gap came down to about 30 seconds, so I decided to go by
myself,” Boyd said. “I’ve never won a national title before and
I’ve been racing since I was 12, so this ranks up there as one
of my biggest results.”
The next morning, Natalie Klemko, also a
MSU freshman, attacked the women’s criterium field, which was
still intact, with five laps left in the race. She quickly
built a lead of approximately 20 seconds and held off a last-lap
surge to ride across the finish line alone to win the hour-long
race on streets adjacent to the University of Kansas campus.
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Albabici
and Nalini are pleased to announce their sponsorship of
Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX.
One of the strongest
collegiate programs in the United States over the last 14
years, USA Cycling named MSU the collegiate
program of the year for 2004. Team Arrow’s athletes have won 17
national cycling championships since the team was formed in 1989. At
the 2003 national road championships, MSU’s riders – who come to the
6,500-student state university campus in Wichita Falls, Texas, from
around the nation as well as overseas – captured the national women’s
criterium championship, the national women’s team time trial
championship for the fourth time in five years and a podium spot in the
men’s team time trial. MSU riders also medaled in four events at the
last national track championships. The program is one of a handful in
the United States to offer scholarships to promising student athletes.
