Devo Wrap: Camping season for development riders

BMX and track cyclists in USA Cycling's National Development Program traveled to the state of the California recently for two camps. A group of BMX riders participated in a BMX Junior Development Program Camp at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista that ended Monday. Ongoing through this week, a group of track riders are honing their skills in a track camp at the Home Depot Center in Carson.

TRACK

USA Cycling's High Performance Director of Endurance Programs Benjamin Sharp is leading a team pursuit camp at the velodrome at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., that will run until Oct. 16.

The riders participating in the camp are:

Men:
Collin Berry (Huntington Beach, Calif./Bike Religion)
Greg Daniel (Englewood, Colo./Chipotle Junior Development Team)
Kit Karzen (Beverly Hills, Calif./NOW-MS Society)
Chandler Knop (Monument, Colo./Chipotle Junior Development Team)
Mathew Lipscomb (Decatur, Ga./Fulton Flyers Devo)
Paul Lynch (Colchester, Conn./Bay Hill Capital-CL Noonan p/b Corner Cycling Club)
Ian Moir (Long Beach, Calif./Yahoo Cycling Team)
Zack Noonan (Kutztown, Pa./FCS Cycling Team)

Women:
Dotsie Bausch (Irvine, Calif./OUCH Pro Cycling)
Kim Geist (Emmaus, Pa./Team Alliance Environmental)
Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./OUCH Pro Cycling)
Cari Higgins (Boulder, Colo./Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY 12)
Jennie Reed (Seattle, Wash./OUCH Pro Cycling)
Lauren Tamayo (Asheville, N.C./Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY 12)

Full details of the camp will be included in next week's development wrap.

BMX

Collin Hudson, shown here at at the 2010 USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships in Granby, Colo., is among the riders who took part in the BMX Junior Development Program Camp in Chula Vista last week. (Photo by Tim Gillies)

Nine riders participated in the second BMX Junior Development Program Camp of the 2012 BMX season. The week-long camp spanned Oct. 3-10 at the Supercross track at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif.

The riders who took part in the camp were:

Matt Chism (Huntington Beach, Calif./Bike Alley-Redline-Rocks)
Carlie Ferree (Quartz Hill, Calif./Redman Rockstar)
Destiny Ford (Rio Linda, Calif./Ssquared-AtomLab)
Sean Gaian (Santee, Calif./Factory Intense)
Collin Hudson (Longmont, Colo./Factory Crupi-Pro-Gate)
Mikey Richardson (Red Oak, Texas/Accurate Dent Repair-Zer)
Sam Robey (Cypress, Texas/ORP-Rickard Bikes)
Taylor Stephens (Redmond, Ore./Aggro Bikes.com)
Alexander Strand (Boulder City, Nev./Aggro Bikes.com)

Brian Fell, who coached the riders at the camp, said, "It was good having the camp the week after the Chula Vista Supercross. That way, the riders in the junior development series could see their potential future in front of them."

Fell highlighted the commitment and effort displayed by Gaian, Hudson and Ferree as well as Ford, who was participating in her first camp.

Chula Vista features a track mimicking the BMX track used in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. The riders worked on sprint speeds, on flat ground as well as the eight-meter (26') tall World Cup starting hill. Their skills were also tested jumping 40' obstacles, negotiating turns and overall lap times.

COMING UP

The following group of U23 riders from USA Cycling's National Development Program were going to contest the Tour of Guatemala from Oct. 23-Nov. 1:

Zach Earnest (Jenks, Okla./Tulsa Tough Elite Race Team)
Wes Holloway (Dublin, Calif./Echelon Racing Development)
Evan Huffman (Elk Grove, Calif./California Giant Berry Farms-Specialized)
Julian Kyer (Santa Rosa, Calif./Kelly Benefit Strategies)
Chase Pinkham (Salt Lake City, Utah/Bissell Pro Cycling Team)
Joseph Schmalz (Lawrence, Kan./KCCX Fuji Elite Cyclocross Team p/b Challenge Tires)

***UPDATE: The Tour of Guatemala has been cancelled due to inclimate weather.***

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