For the second time in four years, Rams Cycling has been named by USA Cycling as the Collegiate Cycling Team of the Year. This award is the result of many years of dedication and success. The team has been growing every year in size and also talent. Plus many of the programs that were created prior to our first Collegiate Team of the Year award in 2003 are still going strong today. Rams Cycling is proud to be Taking Collegiate Cycling to the Next Levelâ„¢.

USA Cycling released a statement about the award: Colorado State University was named USA Cycling Collegiate Club of the Year. The school hosted the Rivalry Race Weekend/21st Annual Oval Criterium and the 12th Annual Beaver Meadows Mountain Bike Festival in addition to a bicycle tune-up and maintenance clinic that was attended by 200+ riders, a bike handling clinic that attracted 100+ attendees and weekly presentations on nutrition, physical therapy and training techniques. Colorado State also featured the Fifth-Annual Horsetooth Double Dip bicycle tour which helps to fund scholarship for team members. Additionally, the club oversaw 400 volunteer hours of trail maintenance at Beaver Meadows. From a competitive standpoint, CSU captured one national title courtesy of Phil Mann in the criterium at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships. The squad also earned a bronze medal in the team time trial and a silver medal in the women’s cross country race by Amanda Miller at the USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships.
Of USA Cycling’s 2,139 member clubs, approximately 60 applied for consideration in 10 separate categories. Clubs were judged on several key areas including race promotion, membership composition, instructional clinics and seminars, club activities and charitable contributions and racing performance. Three primary clubs were recognized based on membership size (Division I = 76+ members, Division II = 30-75 members and Division III = 1-29 members), while seven additional clubs were awarded with the Club of the Year designation based on specific categories – mountain bike, collegiate, track, new club, women’s, master’s, and junior/high school.

Started as the Spring Creek Vélo Club in the late 1970s, the team was named Collegiate Cycling Team of the Year in 2003 & 2007. The team promotes multiple events including, the CSU Oval Criterium, first held in 1986, and since 1995, the Beaver Meadows MTB Festival. Colorado State was the first university in the Rocky Mountain region to award cycling scholarships, as well as one of only a few major universities in the United States to do so. The team’s alumni booster Friends of Rams Cycling (FRC), is comprised of bicycling enthusiasts and alumni who support Rams Cycling. Created in 2003 it provides an ongoing source of support for the team through events such as the Horsetooth Double Dip bicycle tour.