R-Cubed New York NICA #1 Lippman Park

R-Cubed NICA Composite team racing at New York NICA first race in 2016 at Lippman Park
After the first race on April 3rd at Blue Mountain Park in Peekskill, NY was canceled due to snow the R-Cubed NICA Composite team headed to Lippman Park in Warwarsing, NY (just outside of Kingston) on April 17th for the first race of the season. Lippman Park is beautiful place to ride with tons of flowy singletrack, berms, features, and bridges making it a great place to start off the season. Turnout was great with over 270 riders overall of which 90 were competing at the middle school level. The team had an excellent showing getting 6th out of 21 teams using only 9 riders that were eligable for points. In addition to the awesome group result we also had a couple of riders make it onto the podium with Rory Taylor grabbing a 3rd in Freshman girls and Chris Slingerland grabbing a 4th in 6th grade boys. This is a fantastic start to the season and a demonstration of the work put in by the team over the winter. Coaches could not be more proud of the team for their effort but also their attitude and grace during some scoring challenges faced by New York NICA's new system.

Next race on May 1st at Thatcher Park, just outside of Albany, NY and will be the closest race to home for the team. So tell your friends and bring them out to see some of the action and take in the beautiful views which make up the great Thatcher park.

R-Cubed NICA Composite team racing at New York NICA first race in 2016 at Lippman Park
Team was looking strong. from left2right: Keving Gohl.JV-B, Colin Winters.V-B, Ryan Moran.JV-B, Chris Slingerland.6-B, Fiona Taylor.7-G, Leland Thomas.8-B, Nate Johnson.8-B, George Isbester.7-B, Simon Albright.F-B, Olivia Ratkliffe.8-G, Rory Taylor.F-G. NOTE Fiona Taylor getting her game face on

A beautiful day awesome trails and everyone was excited to get started.
Fiona Ready to go
Fiona and Olivia getting ready
The middle school boys getting their game faces on
Rory and Coach Dave getting pumped up
Kevin and Ryan getting some last minute words from Coach Rich with Coach Dave looking on

And they are off.
8th grade boys are off.
7th grade boys with some game faces. George charging off
Fiona charging with the 7th grade girls
Rory announcing her intention to make her mark on the Freshman girls race
Kevin and Ryan taking off with the 35 rider JV boys craziness

Trails were flowy, tight and twisty and made for great spectating.
George snaking his way down through the trees

Single track made racing action tight. Here is Leland leading a chain including Nate
Leland
Nate
Textbook corner carving as demonstrated by Nate
George ..um... unable to contain his excitment for the awesome course.
Lots of smiles out on course
Carving
Carving
Chris leading the train
Hold on to it Chris!!!
Chris getting some encouragement and looking through the turn.
On the gas to 4th place in 6th grade boys

Fiona on the gas

Olivia gets the perserverance award. Despte a frustrating problem with her gears Olivia kept on it and made it to the end.
Rory all smiles on her way to 3rd in freshman girls
Kevin carving his way to a top 10 out of 35 JV boys
Ryan being sure he is absolutely ready for the bottle exchange.

Simon coming in for the freshman boys
Rory nabbing a third in freshman girls
Chris grabbing a forth in 6th grade boys.
Olivia brining it in

Podiums
Rory taking 3rd in freshman girls
Middle school!!!

In case you missed it. New York NICA released a video of the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkwOgSM_YSg


2016 Team Sponsors
The team continues to gain support with the addition of Wolf Hollow (WHBC in Glenmont, NY) to our already fantastic sponsors. We can't say enough great things about these organizations and how much the team appreciates the support.
Thank You SPONSORS