10-time National Champion Brevard College Cycling team will compete at the 2018 USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships this weekend on the slopes of Marshall Mountain in Missoula, Montana which will play host to over 60 collegiate teams from all over the country. The Tornados will be seeking their 11th overall team national championship and seventh Mountain Biking national championship.
11 Brevard College student-athletes have made the trip to Montana for the national championships, Carson Beckett, Tyler Clark, Will Hegedus, Zack Lowden, Scott McGill, Tyler Orschel, Lucas Pound, Nathan St. Clair, Hannah Arensman, Hannah Dickson and Nicole Rusden will be competing for the Tornados.
Heading into the national championships, the Tornados are coming off a highly successful fall Mountain Bike season with a multitude of first-place and podium finishes already garnered.
While most of the Tornados were competing in the Appalachian Mountains in early September, three Brevard College student-athletes were on the other side of the globe at the 2018 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. Beckett (USA), Clark (Canada) and St. Clair (USA) represented their home countries and Brevard College in the world championships. It marked the first time in school history that the Brevard College Cycling program sent three student-athletes to a World Championship.
This weekend in Montana, Brevard will be seeking its first national title in any discipline since winning Division I Cyclocross in 2017 in Hartford, Connecticut and its first Mountain Bike national championship since winning the 2016 Division I MTB title in Snowshoe Mountain, West Virginia.
Brevard College All-Time Collegiate Team National Championships (10):
Mountain Bike – 6 USA Cycling Collegiate National Championships
2016 – 1st (DI) Snowshoe Mountain, West Virginia
2014 – 1st (DII) Beech Mountain, North Carolina
2013 – 1st (DII) Beech Mountain, North Carolina
2012 – 1st (DII) Angel Fire, New Mexico
2010 – 1st (DII) Truckee, California
2009 – 1st (DII) Truckee, California
Cyclocross – 4 USA Cycling Collegiate National Championships
2017 – 1st (DI) Hartford, Connecticut
2015 – 1st (DII) Austin, Texas
2014 – 1st (DII) Boulder, Colorado
2013 – 1st (DII) Verona, Wisconsin