The CCB p/b Levine Law Group elite girls’s biking staff confirmed a 10-rider roster for 2025, the under-23 improvement programme targeted on getting ready riders for qualification on the inaugural U23 girls’s class occasions on the UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda subsequent September 21-28.
Three new additions to the roster embody a trio of US riders led by Makayla MacPherson, Katherine ‘Kat’ Sarkisov and rising junior Jorja Bond. Returning riders embody Cécile Lejeune of France and a full forged 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 Cycling, received the crash-marred U23 girls’s title 10 days in the past at US Cyclocross Nationals. Riding ‘cross for CXD Trek Bikes, Sarkisov collided on the end line with Hickey, who was relegated to 3rd place by race officers. Both riders had 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 Health. This final season with DNA Pro Cycling, the California native raced a heavy schedule of criteriums, scoring podiums at Boise Twilight and Salt Lake criteriums.
Bond, an 18-year previous from Colorado, competed for Boulder Junior Cycling in 2024 and took a silver medal at US highway nationals within the girls’s junior 17-18 highway race.
The staff will proceed a various calendar of highway, criterium and gravel occasions in 2025. Lejeune, who received the GC on the Oregon Trail Gravel stage race final 12 months, will shift her focus completely to gravel within the new 12 months, as she was chosen to compete within the Life Time Grand Prix.
“Our main objective is to arrange our athletes for the subsequent step of their careers, whether or not which means incomes skilled contracts or competing on the world stage,” mentioned staff Sports Director Lauren LeClaire. The CCB staff has been instrumental in graduating 18 riders to skilled ranks previously seven years.
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Levine Law Group of Mooresville, N.C. stays the staff’s presenting sponsor, alongside companions Foundation Cycling, Friends & Family Dental of East Providence, Rhode Island, Pro13 Coaching and the Organic Natural Shop. The staff’s technical partnerships embody Shimano, Sportful, Enduro Bearings, Lazer nand Schwalbe.
CCB p/b Levine Law Group 2025 roster
- Jorja Bond (USA)
- Ella Brenneman (USA)
- Elizabeth Grier (USA)
- Lizzy Gunsalus (USA)
- Sabrina Hayes (USA)
- Cassidy Hickey (USA)
- Cécile Lejeune (France)
- Makayla MacPherson (USA)
- Katherine Rusch (USA)
- Katherine Sarkisov (USA)
Washington, D.C. named host for 2025-2026 Pan-American Cyclocross Championships
The Pan American Cycling Confederation introduced this week that Washington, D.C., was named to host the subsequent two rounds of the Pan American Cyclocross Championships, going down in 2025 and 2026.
Next 12 months’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 Home, the location of President Lincoln’s Summer Cottage and a residential group for US veterans since 1851. In current years the identical venue has hosted cyclocross races on the US schedule, DCCX.
“CXD Trek Bikes and our companions DCMTB and Crosshairs Cycling are excited to convey the Pan American Cyclocross Championships to the Mid-Atlantic and Washington, DC,” mentioned Bill Schieken, founding father of Crosshairs Cycling.
“DCCX is traditionally one in all North America’s largest cyclocross occasions, and we will not wait to host COPACI nember racers on the iconic Armed Forces Retirement Home.”
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 Team Relay Continental Championship occasion, which was first launched on the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in 2023.
Tucson Bicycle Classic 2025
The Tucson Bicycle Classic in Arizona expands to 4 levels on its thirty seventh version in 2025, operating 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 overall 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 offered by Visit Tucson. In addition to the elite classes, the quick, technical course within the metropolis’s downtown space will embody races for 2 newbie males’s divisions (cat 2-3 and masters 40-plus).
The Sahuarita Road Race returns on Saturday with the 20.5-mile (33km) loop, utilizing new tarmac throughout the Green Valley on the south aspect of Tucson.
Overall winners will likely be determined Sunday after the Oro Valley Circuit Race offered 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 December 20, with a 20% low cost supplied till January 1, 2025.
Last 12 months Brendan Rhim (Project Echelon Racing) received the general for elite males whereas Sofia Arreola (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) received the title for elite girls.