#Thursday night mtb ride fairmount park series

For most sports, practice is pretty much the same. If you've been a baseball, softball or soccer coach before, you pretty much know the drill (pun intended) when it comes to the format of practice. The season will conclude with Race #5: Finals at Fair Hill, November 6th in Elkton, Maryland, only a 20вЂ“minute drive from the most Southeast corner of Pennsylvania. The next scheduled event Race #2: The Flow at Jordan Creek is scheduled for Sunday, October 2nd at Jordan Creek Park in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

#Thursday night mtb ride fairmount park series

The team and coaching philosophy is to use cycling, and the mountain bike itself, as a way-of-thinking to transport our riders to a sense of adventure, exploration, excitement, friendship and good health.Д«eyond the Marysville Epic, the 2016 season race series will continue as PICL will host 4 more races. The goal of SoMont Youth MTB is to introduce boys and girls (6th to 12th grade) to the sport of mountain biking and to help them use the sport as a way of developing a new life-long athletic interest. It is an independent youth mountain bike team in the Cheltenham, Abington, Rockledge, Lower Moreland and Springfield areas of southern Montgomery County. SoMont Cycling Youth MTB Team is a PICL sanctioned composite team, organized in 2016. The league was organized in 2014 with the goal to provide fun, safe, and competitive mountain biking opportunities for middle (grades 7-8) & high school students in the Commonwealth.

The Pennsylvania Interscholastic Cycling League (PICL) is a non-profit 501(c)3 NICA Project League. NICA provides leadership, services and governance for local leagues to produce quality mountain bike events, and supports every student-athlete in the development of strong body, strong mind and strong character through their efforts on the bike. We donвЂ™t think it gets much better than that.вЂќДЇounded in 2009, the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) develops interscholastic mountain biking programs for student-athletes across the United States. This wonderful sport promotes physical and mental fitness, equality, inclusivity, and an appreciation of the great outdoors. However, Raisch is boldly looking beyond this season further adding, вЂњWe are actively recruiting more student-athletes, preparing for a time when Abington, Cheltenham, Lower Moreland and other school districts adopt mountain biking as an interscholastic sport. I am so proud of what weвЂ™ve collectively accomplished and I look forward to seeing our team race and represent Southern Montgomery County,вЂќ remarked Raisch. вЂњWe have a fantastic group of dedicated community based sponsors, coaches, student-athletes and families. He further added, вЂќTheir confidence is growing off the charts, but, more importantly, they are developing meaningful friendships. вЂњOur athletes impress me every time weвЂ™re out on the bikes,вЂќ said Nguyen. The team is also enthusiastically and financially supported by 8 community businesses.ДЄfter nine months of planning, and six months of general practice and race training, coaches Nguyen and Raisch, along with their corporate sponsors, and student-athletesвЂ™ proud families are ready to present their race-ready SoMont Cycling Youth MTB Team at the season kick-off PICL 2016 Inaugural Race which will be held just west of Harrisburg at the Oesterling Farm in Marysville, Perry County, PA. Today, the SoMont Cycling Youth MTB Team is comprised of 9 student-athletes, spanning grades 6 through 10, and drawing athletes from public and private schools throughout southern Montgomery County. Along the way, they picked up new team recruits and supporters. Since that time, Raisch and Nguyen have planned and conducted learning experiences, training, and practices for the youth in Lorimer Park, Baederwood Park, Tookany Creek Parkway, Pennypack Park & Rail Trail, Valley Green, and at the Philly Pumptrack.

The first official practice of the SoMont Cycling Youth MTB Team convened in July of 2016. Today, both are also fathers with children developing their own affinity for cycling. Raisch, a Rockledge-native and Abington High School graduate, grew up mountain biking in Lorimer Park while Nguyen, who grew up in Lancaster, became an avid Fairmount Park rider while earning his BA at the University of the Arts. Co-founders, Wyncote neighbors and friends, John Raisch and Thuong Nguyen are mountain biking enthusiasts. SEPTEM(WYNCOTE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA) вЂ“ SoMont (Southern Montgomery County) Cycling Youth MTB Team is a chartered composite team of the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Cycling League (PICL) and the National Interscholastic Cycling League (NICA).