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Volume 77, Issue 8 Web Edition SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935
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Oct. 21, 2011
BC cycling team heads to Nationals
By Park Baker
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The Tornados mountain bike team will
travel to defend their national title on
Sunday.
All of Brevard’s A riders will journey
cross country to compete in the USA
Cycling Collegiate National Championship
in Angelfire, New Mexico. The town of
Angelfire sits at 8,400 ft above sea level,
and sophomore Lewis Gaffney calls this tiny
town his home.
“When I heard nationals was in my
hometown, I knew that this competition
would mean more to me than any event I
have ever raced,” Gaffney said. “No one in
my hometown really knew about Brevard
College, so now it is really cool to make it
apparent where I go to school and why I do
it. To get to win nationals last year and then
get the chance to come in to my hometown to
In this issue...
Campus News:
Obama speaks in Asheville
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Mr. BC
3
Indian food vacation
4
Arts & Life:
The Walking Dead
5
Haunted music hall
5
Student vsfacullty bball
fi
Comic by Karam Boeshaar
fi
MLK challange
fi
Sports:
Cycling
7
What's happenin'
7
Odds and Ends:
Comic by Dabney Farmer
8
defend the title means a lot to me.”
As an endurance athlete, Gaffney's natural
acclimation to the elevation and familiarity
with the terrain will be an advantage for the
Tornados. It is best to arrive the day before a
race, so that your body doesn’t have time to
adapt to the high elevation. If the team were
to arrive too early their performance would
be hindered.
Nestled in northern New Mexico’s Sangre
de Cristo Mountains, just 25 miles from
Taos, the Angel Fire Resort is known as a hot
spot for mountain biking. The resort’s bike
park has played host to the UCI Mountain
Bike World Cup in 2005 and the USA
Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National
Championships in 2006.
Our athletes will race against the best
Division II schools in the country on courses
designed to test each rider in their own
discipline. Tornado gravity riders will use
Angel Fire Resorts ski lifts to get to the top
of the downhill course, and then descend
through gnarly terrain that is hidden beneath
10 feet of snow in the winter.
Senior Kate Weisenfluh is expected to
podium, with a win at nearly every collegiate
race this season in the downhill event, fingers
are crossed that she and her new downhill race
bike will bring home the gold.
“I’m very excited about nationals,”
Weisenfluh said. “It’s been a great year so
far and I have high hopes for the team and
myself We have had some tough luck leading
up to this point, but if we can come together,
our chance for a three-time championship is
great! I’m riding two new bikes, with those
and the support of Coach Sheedy and my
friends I really can’t wait to get out there and
compete for another national title.”
A rider in a berm at Angel Fire Resort. Phioto courtesy Angel Fire Resort