Elite women, U23 & junior men named to UCI Cyclo-cross World Championship squad

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Colorado Springs, Colo. (December 17, 2009)—USA Cycling has announced the first round of nominations to the United States National Team for the 2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic, Jan. 30-31.

 

Five athletes were named to each of the elite women’s, U23 men’s and junior men’s squads based on competitive performances over the course of the last year.

 

After capturing her sixth consecutive USA Cycling Cylco-cross National title and winning a pair of World Cups this season, Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Planet Bike) received an automatic nomination and will lead the elite women’s squad. Compton is currently the top-ranked female cyclo-crosser in the world rankings ahead of Dutchwomen Daphny van den Brand and reigning world champion Marianne Vos. After her silver-medal-performance at the World Championships in 2006 and earning the bronze at last year’s contest, Compton is not only an automatic qualifier to the squad, but will be the favorite heading into Tabor.

 

Garnering the most points in five out of the six U.S. qualification races, Amy Dombroski (Boulder, Colo./Schalmm p/b Primus) is another automatic qualifier for the elite women’s squad. After finishing third at the recent USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships, fifth in the USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Calendar standings and second in the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclo-cross, the 22-year-old Dombroski looks to be a strong world championship contender for years to come.   

 

Discretionary nominations to the elite women’s team went to national championship silver medalist Meredith Miller (Fort Collins, Colo./California Giant-Specialized), Laura Van Gilder (Cresco, Pa./C3-Sollay) and Maureen Bruno-Roy (Arlington, Mass./MM Racing p/b Seven Cycles).

 

In the U23 men’s division, 2007 junior world championship silver-medalist Danny Summerhill (Englewood, Colo./Garmin-Felt) earned the only automatic nomination to the team with his victory at the USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships. 

 

Discretionary selections to the men’s U23 team went to national championship U23 bronze-medalist Luke Keough (Sandwich, Mass./Champion Systems), last year’s junior national champion and 2009 Collegiate DI national champion Zach McDonald(Bainbridge Island, Wash./Stevens Classic Cycle), Jerome Townsend (Princeton, Mass./Bikereg.com-Joe’s Garage) and Dave Hackworthy (Hudson, Wisc./Plan C).

 

Winning the USA Cycling junior cyclo-cross national championship, Cody Kaiser (El Dorado Hills, Calif./Cal Giant) was the only automatic qualifier in the junior division. Jeff Bahnson (Newark, Del./Thule-Vandessel), Skyler Trujillo (Fort Collins, Colo./Black Sheep), Chris Wallace (Shawnee, Kan./KCCX-Verge) and Matt Spinks (Layton, N.J./Young Medalists-Team Dual Temp) all earned discretionary nominations and will make up the remainder of the junior men’s squad.

 

The elite men’s nominations will be announced on Jan. 13 following the next two rounds of the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup. To view the complete selection procedures for all categories, visit the USA Cycling website, here.   

 

2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships

Tabor, Czech Republic

Jan.30-31

 

U.S. Team:

 

Elite Women

Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Planet Bike)

Amy Dombroski (Boulder, Colo./Schalmm p/b Primus)

Meredith Miller (Fort Collins, Colo./California Giant-Specialized)

Laura Van Gilder (Cresco, Pa./C3-Sollay)

Maureen Bruno-Roy (Arlington, Mass./MM Racing p/b Seven Cycles)

 

U23 Men

Danny Summerhill (Englewood, Colo./Garmin-Felt)

Luke Keough (Sandwich, Mass./Champion Systems)

Zach McDonald (Bainbridge Island, Wash./Stevens Classic Cycle)

Jerome Townsend (Princeton, Mass./Bikereg.com-Joe’s Garage)

Dave Hackworthy (Hudson, Wisc./Plan C).

 

Junior Men

Cody Kaiser (El Dorado Hills, Calif./Cal Giant)

Jeff Bahnson (Newark, Del./Thule-Vandessel)

Skyler Trujillo (Fort Collins, Colo./Black Sheep)

Chris Wallace (Shawnee, Kan./KCCX-Verge)

Matt Spinks (Layton, N.J./Young Medalists-Team Dual Temp)

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#3	Peter   February 8 at 8:21am Thanks for sharing this information. It has been most precious. I searched for additional information on the issue, therefore I downloaded an article about USA Cycling on http://www.picktorrent.com search engine. I learned a lot in which I was interested from it. In particular, that recognized by the United States Olympic Committee and the Union Cycliste Internationale, USA Cycling is the official governing body for all disciplines of competitive cycling in the United States, including road, track, mountain bike, BMX and cyclo-cross. That is rather cognitive, to my mind. reply
#2	Neguy   December 17, 2009 at 9:47pm Dan, blame the early end to the season. It's true that for a lot of juniors and U23s making the team becomes the major goal of the season since, unless of course you're Summerhill and know you're going, as opposed to peaking for worlds. I'm not certain, off the top of my head, if the World Cups for U23's and juniors have a national team selection process like the elites do. But if they do, such a system certainly provides a rider with some idea throughout the season if they are on the level of the worlds team or not. Even if the World Cups do not feature such a system for the non-elite ranks the early European Championships and the later National Championships still provide european riders with a more solid idea of where they stack up in regard to national team places than the US riders have. I don't think it would kill the national federation to field a US team for the major US races akin to the teams for World Cups (especially since World Cups are now raced in trade team clothing, so the sponsors don't suffer) and the races could still leave registration open beyond the limited team spots (unlike a World Cup) so that some riders didn't cry foul about lost points, etc. reply
#1	Dan J   December 17, 2009 at 8:28pm I don't get why they name the Junior and U23 team before the Euro Cross Camp. Why not wait and see who does well over in the Europe first? What's the rush? If all the qualifying races are in Nov and early Dec then what is the incentive for riders to be going well at the end of Jan? It's like making the worlds teams is the big goal opposed to actually doing well in the race. reply