Lindenwood University Cycling Team

A special shoutout out to our racer .baker for being the first one to compete in all 5 disciplines at each of their respective national championships in one school year.

This takes a lot of hard work in order to focus on each discipline and to be training year round. Congrats on all of your hard work Ajay!

Wow! What an incredible week in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The team finished up their season competing in the TTT, Crit, and road race this past weekend at USA Cyclings road nationals giving it all they had for one last dance. A huge shoutout to all the racers who competed this weekend on behalf of Lindenwood, we are so incredibly proud ofd the hard work you have put in.

Since this is our last time all together, we just want to say thank you to everyone who has supported us in the past and present. We wouldn’t be here without your help. Much of the team is transferring in order to live their cycling dreams, and although this is sad for everyone, we will continue to cheer them on, because after all, once a lion, always a lion.

Thank you to all the photographers, specifically for getting some awesome pics of us!

Results (Top 21 places)

All American
+ Dillon 🥇

TTT
+ Men’s team: 🥉
+ Women’s team: 8th

Road race
Women
+ Kaya (21st)

Men
+ Dillon (5th)

Crit
Women
+ Ajay (20th)

Men
+ Dillon (10th)
+ Riley (21st)

While some of the team is at nats, some are graduating ( + did both)!

Congrats to all our grads this year & we can’t wait to see what you do in the future!

NM coffee ride for the nats team today! T-1 day until racing starts🤍

Our road nationals team is headed out to Albuquerque, New Mexico today! This is our last race as a team, and we can’t wait to see what they do!

Stay tuned for a more updates on this next week :)

Our third, and last but not least, is Dillon Geary! Dillon has been on the team for 3 years, and is majoring in computer science with a minor in mathematics. He doesn’t have a specific favorite memory with the team per se, but overall enjoyed the time he’s had with everyone no matter the discipline. He races track and road, and a collegiate highlight was winning 2x national track titles. At the end of the day he says “I can’t even remember what raced I placed well in, etc, but I can remember all the great memories I made on these trips”. Dillon, congratulations and we can’t wait to see what you do next!

Here are the long awaited podium pictures and results from last weekends home road race. Thank you again to everyone who came out to support!

Road Race:
Mens A:
+ Dillon (2nd)
+ Asa (4th)
+ Luke (5th)
+ Jura (7th)
+ Riley (8th)
+ Jakob (9th)

Mens P/1/2:
+ Sam (1st)

Womens A:
+ Kaya (4th)
+ Jordan (7th)

Women 3/4/5:
+ Bre (1st)

Women B/C/D:
+ Emily (5th)
+ Addison (6th)

Men Cat 3:
+ Cade (4th)
+ Brody M (5th)

Mens B:
+ Santiago (1st)
+ Ben (4th)

Criterium:
Mens A:
+ Dillon (1st)
+ Brody (2nd)
+ Asa (3rd)
+ Riley (4th)
+ Jura (7th)
+ Bradley (8th)

Women A:
+ Ajay (2nd)
+ Kaya (6th)
+ Jordan (7th)
+ Megan (9th)

Women B/C/D:
+ Bre (1st)
+ Emily (6th)
+ Addison (7th)
+ Flo (8th)
+ Layla (9th)

Mens B:
+ Brody M (1st) & overall
+ Santiago (2nd)
+ Cade (3rd)
+ Ben (6th)
+ Rodrigo (7th)

2024 ROARS awards!

Everyone has had a killer year and we are so proud of the entire team.

Shout out to .baker, , and for being nominated for awards!

What. A. Weekend. Words cannot begin to describe how hard this team has worked, and how far it has paid off. From being told we were cut in December, to making it one of the best road seasons yet, proud is a very far understatement. Incredibly impressed with the grace & growth in everyone this semester & we are so excited to see where everyone goes and does from here. Our home race was a success thanks to many many people, especially & we couldn’t do anything without you guys.

Thank you to everyone who came and supported this weekend, we couldn’t be more grateful to have one last race together as a big family. Thank you for your continued support.

The teams race results & podiums will be posted on the story soon💛🖤

Our second is Asa Black! Asa has been on the team for 3 years, studying Business Economics. He races Road, Mountain bike, and track. His favorite team memory is mountain bike nations in 2022 and 2023, he especially loved racing downhill in the mud at Ride Rock this year, but he says he fell in love with mountain biking at these two events. His collegiate highlights are winning Forest Park Tour of St. Louis twice in a row, winning the Marian crit against some stacked teams in 2023, and most important to him, placing 10th in the omnium at mountain bike nationals this past season. A piece of advice he has for underclassmen is to “work hard at your disciplines. You will probably never have this much time and flexibility to train again. Make it count and see where you end up. Of course, have lots of fun along the way and cherish all the memories”. Post graduation from LU, he will be attending Milligan to pursue a MBA and continue to race a collegiately. “I’m extremely excited to move down south and explore the incredible riding they have down there”. Congrats Asa, and we’re super excited to see you do great things!

Register now!! You have the chance to become the next Missouri road state champion (for MO residents) by racing this weekend! Sign up so you don’t miss your chance & we hope to see you there.

Register now: https://www.bikereg.com/lindenwood-road-extravaganza--missouri-state-championships-road-race?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABppCXy5FQdXiO2avYlWBig71KIPBDHVIVjTTEhOXtTicxkpFyQROBxCa0yA_aem_AdNRAcxQ4NMtLaW3E1iCoUjDNAhlTbJwG5PNfx037wzLvZJeoXejyTMwUoUzE7EnEOU

Some at bowling tonight! So good to see everyone and their bowling skills (or lack there of)

Are you registered for our home race yet?! From tearing up the Daniel Boone home course to ripping the cobbles on Sunday…this is surely something you can’t miss, be there!

Link to register: https://www.bikereg.com/lindenwood-road-extravaganza--missouri-state-championships-road-race?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0BMQABpkO0-wSOgAmxcfSAzibWvoY-KfjFYxszjHZXuV_6czU3NH2uw_CIuImPPA_aem_AVUQ1tYFIHxALMl8KM-fg065zyu5LOgapncIvT5WVPbdse766b4r3N8KLQECKl6eWqk

Spent the weekend racing locally in STL, we’re so lucky to have a great road scene around us here thanks to Big Shark Bicycle Company!
Great job to everyone this weekend despite the smaller fields, we’re really making the best of things.
We’re super stoked to be hosting a race this weekend, and if you’re not signed up, you should be! The link is in our bio.

RESULTS:

World Wide Technology:

Women 4/5
+ Emily 2nd
+ Addison 3rd

Women Open:
+ Ajay 1st
+ Kaya 2nd
+ Jordan 5th
+ Megan 6th
+ Abi Y 7th
+ Emma 8th
+ Mya 10th

Men Cat 4:
+ Brody M 1st
+ Rodrigo 6th

Men 4/5’s:
+ Cade 1st

Men Cat 3:
+ Nick 4th
+ Jakob 5th

Men Pro/1/2
+ Jura 1st
+ Sam 5th
+ Luke 6th
+ Ethan 10th
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Tilles Park:

Women 4/5
+ Emily

Women Open:
+ Ajay 1st
+ Megan 2nd
+ Kaya 3rd
+ Jordan 6th
+ Abby B 8th
+ Emily 9th
+ Addison 10th

Men Cat 4:
+ Brody M 1st

Men Cat 3:
+ Mac 1st
+ Nick 3rd

Men Pro/1/2
+ Riley 1st
+ Ethan 3rd
+ Jura 7th
+ Sam 10th

Our first of the season kicks off with Emily Massengale! Emily has been on the team for two years after swimming from swimming to cycling. She races mostly Road, but has tried to Mountain bike, Cyclocross, and track on the team as well! She will be graduating with a degree in Sports Management BA and Human Resource Management minor. Her favorite team memory is meeting the team right before she joined at one of our :family dinners” at Spellman. ”That’s where I decided I wanted to join cycling because it was like one huge family and super funny. I felt like I finally found my people”. A major collegiate highlight she has is completing her first ironman In December ’23 and her advice is to “not be afraid to try new things!!! Trying new things can be scary, but they can be great and memorable adventures”! Her plans post-grad are to stay in the STL area, she’s currently job hunting, and continuing to race and train to get ready for Deaf Olympics in 2025 at Tokyo, Japan! Congrats Emily, so excited to see you do amazing things!

Ready to rip the cobbles in a few weeks 👀…sign up using the link for your chance 🔗 🤝

https://www.bikereg.com/lindenwood-road-extravaganza--missouri-state-championships-road-race

Congrats to all of our racers who competed at Purdue this past weekend. There were quite a few notable results (listed below). The season is moving fast but we’re soaking up every minute we have left together. Thank you for all of the support these past few months!

Tour D’Eclipse Crit:

Women’s A:
+ Kaya 3rd
+ Ajay 4th
+ Megan 8th

Men’s A:
+ Jura 7th

Womens B/D/D: 
+ Emily 7th

Mens C:
+ Brody M. 2nd

TTT:
+ Brody B/Riley/Jakob/Mac 1st
+ Megan/Kaya/Mya/Ajay 2nd
+ Ella/Emma/Abby/Jordan 4th

Road Race:

Women’s A
+ Kaya 3rd

Men’s B:
+ Santiago 1st

Womens B/C/D:
+ Emily 7th

Men’s C:
+ Brody M 1st

With Lindenwood having giving week this past week, and us not receiving a page since we were cut, we wanted to post today as “Giving Saturday”. All the money donated to the link in our bio will help our team finish out the season so the athletes don’t have to pay for things themselves. We have been so privileged in the past and are now struggling. We ask for your help so our racers can have their best & some of their last season at LU! Another way you can help is by signing up for our home road race, or sharing this post! Thank you so much for your consideration.

The team had a fun Saturday at the Midwest Cycling Classic in Indiana! Overall, great racing and lots of learning! Super proud of the team for pushing through this tough season.

Big thanks to Joe Vondersaar & for some awesome pictures of our athletes!

Results:

Men open 4/5:
+ Cade 🥈

Men’s open 3/4:
+ Mac 🥇

Women open 1/2/3:
+ Megan (9th)
+ Ajay (10th) .baker

Women open 4/5:
+ Bre (6th)

Men open p/1/2
+ Riley (7th)

Wow. What an incredible weekend. So so proud of the team and all of their efforts this season so far, and this weekend showed off all the hard work. Tour of St. Louis, comprised of three events over two days, showed off our riders in the Team time trial, and two crits. All of our team time trial teams placed top eight despite the chilly and windy weather. On saturday after the TTT, the team headed to Carondelet Park to race in the carondelicious crit. With results in first and second in the P/1/2 race, to winning other categories as well. On Sunday at the Mike Murray Classic we saw this again, the men sweeping the P/1/2 podium and so many others putting out killer results. Results are posted under the “2024” highlight in our bio. Thanks for everyone who came out to support, and here’s to the start of the road season🙌🔥

Also, huge thank you to & for being awesome coaches & thank you to all the photographers out there this weekend helping capture all these moments!

Fun night out at Tuesday night worlds!

took the win in the A’s race and too third! In the B’s, took first, in second, and .carmody_ in third!

Thank you SO much to for the photos tonight!

Excited to announce our race flyer for this year’s Lindenwood Road Extravaganza! Although it’s our last, we hope to make it our best. We would love to see you all there, whether in support or participation. You can find the link to sign using the QR code or the link right below! Oh, I almost forgot, the Main Street Crit is back…🔥🔥

https://www.bikereg.com/lindenwood-road-extravaganza--missouri-state-championships-road-race?fbclid=IwAR1Lj2L5VABwH4uDpWno05J2GzKPbDUmcFhjKFhkidzKzfSQFDZ4h_On9JM_aem_AaeiQUwx-B5g3TA0VI9OZ7vwzB8TQD5GNIdiRs_lpzrDeKZLPY8xLUeyoTm_7RjO5Lk

Lindenwood Road Extravaganza & Missouri State Championships Road Race Online Registration BikeReg - online cycling event registration

Part 2 of spring break! From snowmobiling in the mountains to team camps, everyone had a great time on their trips!

Now back to school we go to make this last road season as a team, our best one yet. If you haven’t already, please consider donating to the link in our bio to help us have the best last season.

Congrats Dillon!

THE ARCH! Labeled as “one of the most fun rides of the year” happened today, as no classes were held due to a celebration of teaching day for the staff. Great day under the sun with the crew!

Had a lovely galantines today! So much fun from pictures, good food, and permanent jewelry! ❤️❤️❤️