Nationals Allocations

With the season nearly over it is time to start thinking about nationals! May will be here before you know it! Here are a few key points:
-You must be an A rider to attend
-You must do 3 mass start races as an A (basically, you need to do the last 2 weekends).

Allocations:
Remember, these are equal numbers for men and women:
Road Race: 12
Crit: 8

Div 2:
RR: 7
Crit: 5
A team cannot bring more than 8 men and women.

We will break it down in the following manner:
The team who wins the "Nationals Qualification Omnium" will be able to send 4 riders for the crit and 6 for the road race (the maximum allowed). Second place will send 3 for the crit and 4 for the road race. The remaining spots will be available to individuals who aren't on a qualifying team. Unused spots will be redistributed to qualifying teams first. So if no individuals go then the unused spots are made available to the second place team (they could in theory take 4 and 6 riders). From that point, unused spots will be given to other conferences. Each qualifying team can have 1 team time trial squad per gender.

Trifecta Omnium Recap

What an exciting weekend of racing! You can check the results out on the 2014 Road Calendar page. We had another great turnout with over 40 collegiate riders! You can really tell we are growing fast in the Southwest as we've had a 100% increase in attendance each weekend! University of Arizona wins the prize for the most number of riders with 24 (crazy!)

While the University of Arizona used their numbers to their advantaged to sweep many of the men's podiums, ASU continued their rein in the women's A field, and NAU dominated the Men's C. Points are starting to separate out in the Team Omnium with UA pulling away after the double points road race. Things are still very close in the Men's A omnium, the national qualification omnium, and Division 2 team omnium.

We have two weekends of racing left, each with a championship event:
March 29: SWCCC Conference Crit in Phoenix
March 30: Crit #2 in Phoenix

April 5: Adoption Exchange ITT (conference champ) and crit
April 6: Adoption Exchange RR

Lots of points on the line the last two weekends!