Greetings all returning students, and welcome to all those moving onto campus and getting ready for classes. Hopefully your cycling teams are starting to fill out as the Atlantic Collegiate Cycling Conference (ACCC) gets ready to kick-off the 2016-2017 season.
Every new season begins with mountain biking, and this year’s schedule is packed full of single-track, cross-country roads, and plenty of challenges. Unlike previous years, this year’s collegiate mountain bike schedule includes over 15 individual Super-D, Short Track, XC, and Gravity events. That is more different mountain biking disciplines available to you and team then ever before.
The ACCC mountain calendar will also allow you to experience the best mountain biking the conference has to offer. The tour is book-ended by events in North Carolina (NC State starts the season, while App State ends it with the Championships), with three big weekends in Virginia (Mason, UVA/JMU, and VT), and one in West Virginia (WVU). This schedule will give you one of the most geographically diverse riding experiences, with no two courses having the same terrain.
After you get a chance to ride in each of these great mountain bike events, the season concludes with the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships. However, this year, the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships is in our very own backyard! Located at Snowshoe Mountain Resort at Snowshoe Mountain, West Virginia, this championship event is only 150-miles South of of West Virginia University. This give you as a member of the ACCC the opportunity to go and experience this event: as a competitor, or as a spectator! Either way, teams should plan on taking the trip out to Snowshoe, WV, just to see what a USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships looks like up close.
It is going to be a great year for collegiate mountain biking, and I hope to see all of your teams in a few weeks out on the trails!
2016 Mountain Schedule
- Sep 03 – NC STATE – Tobacco Road MTB Classic — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Sep 04 – NC STATE – Tobacco Road MTB Classic — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Sep 10 – MASON – Wolf Bouncer All-Mountain Weekend — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Sep 11 – MASON – Wolf Bouncer All-Mountain Weekend — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Sep 17 – JMU/UVA – Massanutten Rocky Rampage (Joint Weekend with JMU) — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Sep 18 – UVA/JMU – Massanutten Rocky Rampage (Joint Weekend with UVA) — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Sep 24 – WVU – Coopers Rock Classic — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Sep 25 – WVU – Coopers Rock Classic — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Oct 01 – VT – Brapalicious Weekend of Sick Dope Gnarness — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Oct 02 – VT – Brapalicious Weekend of Sick Dope Gnarness — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Oct 08 – APP STATE – Conference Championships — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Oct 09 – APP STATE – Conference Championships — Race Flyer [PDF]
- Oct 15 – REST WEEKEND
- Oct 16 – REST WEEKEND
- Oct 21-23 – Nationals USAC Collegiate MTB NATIONALS — Snowshoe, WV – #CollNats
