from Race Team directors Heidi Verbeek and Ray Spore
We are kicking off the race season on the road on Feb 1st with the UCD Cal Aggie criterium in Land Park, Sacramento.
Some of us have already kicked off the 2025 race season with some cyclocross races in Rockville.
Ray Spore did two races, and placed 12th and 14th in the open B category.
We have several new members from UCD that will also be joining the DBC Race Team for the domestic races.
We also launched a new clothing kit, based on a design from a few years ago that was immensely popular.
We also had our podium of 2024 with our riders.
We had 17 members of the DBC team actively racing in 2024.
The men’s podium (most number of races done) is
1. Akwetee Watkins (who focused on mountain bike and cyclocross races)
2. Greg Chapla (road)
3. Raymond Spore (cyclo cross mainly, with one mtb and one track race)
The members who also raced: Aaron Smith (road), Darin Salk (road), James Allen (cyclo cross), Shawn Miller (cyclo cross), Andru Pappell (road), Doug Rowland (road), Owen Kinney (mtb), Cory Frost (road), Alden Hughes (cyclo cross) and Bryan Enderle.
The women’s podium:
1. Heidi Verbeeck (mainly road, but also cyclocross and one track race)
2. Colleen Mills (road)
3. Allison Austin (road)
Also raced for DBC: Luz Maria Lopez (road) and Maggie Nelson (mtb).