The Colorado Mesa cycling team won the USA Cycling national road championship over the weekend and won its third straight overall national championship. The Colorado Mesa University cycling team wrapped up the racing season by winning the USA Cycling Collegiate Road Nationals in Albuquerque on Sunday.
Led by women’s overall (omnium) runner-up Olivia Cummins and men’s omnium runner-up Ian Anderson, the Mavericks added the national road title to the mountain bike and track championships from earlier this season and won their third consecutive overall national title.
Totaling points from the men’s and women’s team time trial, road race and criterium, Colorado Mesa won with 444 points at the three-day championships.
Milligan University of Tennessee, paced by women’s omnium winner Megan Jastrab, finished second with 404 points.
CMU rivals Fort Lewis College of Durango and Marian University of Indianapolis tied for third place at the 2023 collegiate road nationals.
“Overall, the team was awesome,” said Patric Rostel, director/coach of CMU cycling. “We were kind of unlucky in some of the races with a lot of second places. We always like to win races. So overall, we are happy, but it stings a little.”
Rostel said bicycle racing is often 50 percent what you do to prepare, 25 percent is the race and 25 percent is luck.“Sometimes, luck’s the difference,” he said.Anderson, a CMU senior from San Antonio, finished second in the men’s road race Saturday. He added a fifth place Sunday in the men’s criterium.Anderson had opened the national championships helping the CMU men’s time trial […]
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