The CCB p/b Levine Legislation Group elite ladies’s biking workforce confirmed a 10-rider roster for 2025, the under-23 improvement programme targeted 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 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 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, received the crash-marred U23 ladies’s title 10 days in the past at US Cyclocross Nationals. Using ‘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 workforce will proceed a various calendar of highway, criterium and gravel occasions in 2025. Lejeune, who received the GC on the Oregon Path Gravel stage race final 12 months, will shift her focus solely to gravel within the new 12 months, as she was chosen to compete within the Life Time Grand Prix.
“Our main purpose is to organize our athletes for the following step of their careers, whether or not which means incomes skilled contracts or competing on the world stage,” mentioned workforce Sports activities Director Lauren LeClaire. The CCB workforce has been instrumental in graduating 18 riders to skilled ranks up to now seven years.
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Levine Legislation Group of Mooresville, N.C. stays the workforce’s presenting sponsor, alongside companions Basis Biking, Mates & Household Dental of East Windfall, Rhode Island, ProThirteen Teaching and the Natural Pure Store. The workforce’s technical partnerships embody Shimano, Sportful, Enduro Bearings, Lazer nand Schwalbe.
CCB p/b Levine Legislation 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 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 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 Dwelling, 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 carry the Pan American Cyclocross Championships to the Mid-Atlantic and Washington, DC,” mentioned Invoice Schieken, founding father of Crosshairs Biking.
“DCCX is traditionally certainly one of North America’s largest cyclocross occasions, and we won’t wait to host COPACI member racers on the iconic Armed Forces Retirement Dwelling.”
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 Crew Relay Continental Championship occasion, which was first launched on the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in 2023.
Tucson Bicycle Traditional 2025
The Tucson Bicycle Traditional in Arizona expands to 4 levels 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 ladies and men 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 offered by Go to Tucson. Along with 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 Highway Race returns on Saturday with the 20.5-mile (33km) loop, utilizing new tarmac throughout the Inexperienced Valley on the south facet of Tucson.
Total winners will likely be selected 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 facet of Tucson.
Registration for all classes opened on December 20, with a 20% low cost provided till January 1, 2025.
Final 12 months Brendan Rhim (Venture Echelon Racing) received the general for elite males whereas Sofia Arreola (Virginia’s Blue Ridge TWENTY24) received the title for elite ladies.
