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(08/22/07 5:37pm)
The PJ Star, the fine newspaper from Peoria, Ill., is reporting that prospect Matt Roth will announce his college decision today at 5:30 EDT. Roth, a 6-foot-2 sharpshooter from Washington High School in Washington, Ill., has narrowed his list of schools to two - IU and Bradley. We'll update the blog as soon as we receive new information.
(04/24/07 4:00am)
Before the start of both Little 500s, Race Coordinator Matthew Ewing had a lot of things to check out. He had to make sure all the judges were present, that the TV crew was accommodated, that the parade’s celebrities knew where to be and when, among other responsibilities. \nBut before Friday’s and Saturday’s races, Ewing made it a point to look across the track at the pits to find out which teams were using either their student or alumni coach, and in some cases, both.\n“I knew it was going to be interesting to see,” Ewing said.\nLast May, the IU Student Foundation implemented a student coaching initiative required all Little 500 teams to have a student coach that would be in the pit on race day. The initiative barred non-students from coaching in the pits during the race. Before Qualifications in March, IUSF lifted the alumni coaching ban, allowing students, alumni or both in the pits during the race. \nDespite early criticism, many riders and student coaches were pleased with the way the dynamic played out.\n“During the race I felt like I was able to point out things to him he might not have noticed,” said Steve Ziemba, Kappa Delta’s student coach. Ziemba, a sophomore, rides for Alpha Tau Omega, which did not qualify for the men’s race this year. Kappa Delta won the women’s race. \nEwing agreed the collaboration of student and alumni coaches appeared to be successful. In some instances, alumni coaches were barking signals to the riders while the student coaches were writing messages on dry-erase boards, Ewing said.\n“It seemed to work really well,” he said. “We’ll see if this plays out in the future.”\nAll teams will still be required to have a student coach in the future, Ewing said, but he is unsure if both student and alumni coaches can be in the teams’ pits during the Little 500. \nHe will talk about safety issues with the race’s chief steward to determine whether two coaches, four riders, four stationary bikes, water coolers and other extraneous items made the 8-by-16-feet pits a little too crowded.\nBut Ziemba, last year’s men’s rookie of the year, appreciated the chance to participate in the race without racing, thought it wasn’t nearly the same experience. He can now wear two Little 500 championship rings – one as a rider for ATO’s 2006 title, and one as a student coach for Friday’s win. But it was easy for him to determine which win was sweeter. \n“Winning as a coach – I was a little detached from the win because I didn’t help out with the training or anything,” he said. “It’s much better winning as a rider.”
(04/24/07 4:00am)
Faculty members at the IU School of Journalism reacted with sadness and disappointment to the news of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam’s death on Monday. \nHalberstam, 73, was killed in a car accident Monday morning near San Francisco, The Associated Press reported. He spoke March 19 at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave., as part of the IU School of Journalism’s \nspeaker series. \n“We were blessed to have him in March, and I think there will be a lot of people at Indiana and in Bloomington who will remember his visit and his presence for a long, long time,” said School of Journalism Dean Brad Hamm in a telephone interview.\nHamm heard the news Monday evening while at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a speaking engagement.\nHalberstam was a passenger in a car driven by a graduate student at the University of California-Berkeley when it was broadsided by another vehicle just south of San Francisco. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Halberstam was at Berkeley to speak about the craft of journalism and what it means to turn reporting into a work of history, according to the AP.\n“He was one of the most gifted journalists of our time,” Hamm said. “I thought he made a tremendous difference at Indiana when he visited. He met with everybody, and he spent time with everybody who wanted to talk to him. \n“What I admired is he was so smart and so knowledgeable, but he never made anybody feel dumb,” he said. “He listened to them, he asked questions, he spent time with them. We were very, very fortunate to have him \non campus.”\nA journalist and author, Halberstam won a Pulitzer Prize in 1964 for his reporting about the Vietnam War while working for the New York Times. He wrote 21 books, covering topics such as Vietnam, civil rights, baseball and Michael Jordan. His most acclaimed work, 1972’s best-seller “The Best and the Brightest,” chronicled the United States’ involvement in Vietnam.\nHalberstam was one of the most popular speakers in the School of Journalism’s series. During his March speech, people were turned away from the Buskirk-Chumley because the theater had already reached its capacity. \n“We honestly could have let people come in all night,” Hamm said. “We put as many people in as we could.”\nHalberstam spoke about the difficulties of the United States’ involvement in the Iraq war. \nAssociate professor of journalism Dave Boeyink attended Halberstam’s speech.\n“David Halberstam’s death is clearly a loss to journalism,” Boeyink said in a telephone interview. “And I say that even though Halberstam isn’t practicing what we traditionally think is journalism, he still has been, in his production of these wonderful books, a brilliant journalist in the way in which he’s able to gather information and present stories.”\nBoeyink was amazed with Halberstam’s insight and knowledge of the Iraq war. \n“I was particularly impressed with the way in which Halberstam, in an interview in March of 2003, actually was able to predict the problems the United States was going to face if it invaded Iraq based on his experience as a Vietnam War-era journalist,” Boeyink said. “Everything he predicted prior to our invasion of Iraq has come true.”\nThe day after his speech, Halberstam spoke to a group of reporters from the Indiana Daily Student and The Herald-Times. \nHamm said he is disappointed for all the people who will not have the chance to hear Halberstam speak. He had met the author once before his IU visit.\n“I told him when he left that I was looking forward to the third time because I knew we’d have to bring him back,” Hamm said. “I would have loved to have seen him 100 times.”
(04/23/07 4:00am)
Five teams. One lap. One trophy.\nAfter riding in a group five-strong for almost 90 laps, the Cutters, Phi Kappa Psi, Dodds House, the Black Key Bulls and Team Major Taylor had but one lap to determine who would come out on top.\nFrom the beginning to the end of the 200th lap, Cutters’ rider Alex Bishop held the lead and fended off charges from Phi Kappa Psi’s Erik Styacich and Dodds House’s Chris Chartier to claim the Cutters’ eighth Little 500 title. \n“I figured it’s safer to be at the pole and keep pulling a little bit,” Bishop said. “I still had my energy at the end, and it’s history now. We got the eighth championship, and that’s all that matters.”\nBishop took an exchange from teammate Sasha Land at the beginning of the 195th lap. \n“I was supposed to get on the bike with three laps to go, but it turned out to be five,” Bishop said. “So I kind of had to budget my energy a little bit.”\nAt the end of March, Bishop fended off Styacich and Chartier to win Miss-n-Out, a spring series event that determines the race’s top sprinter. Bishop also won Miss-n-Out in 2006.\nDespite Bishop’s accolades, Styacich, Chartier and Black Key Bulls rider Isaac Neff thought they could get around him. \n“He’s a really good rider, but there was no mental game,” Neff said. “I knew I could take him if I had a good sprint in me.”\nWith about 10 laps remaining, any team not competing on the lead lap was forced to the outside of the track. That left the top five all alone on the inside of the track at Bill Armstrong Stadium. \nWith each of their sprinters on the bike with two laps left, the other riders waited, keeping a steady pace until someone made a move. \nWith a little more than one lap remaining, Chartier picked up the pace. \nHe wanted to lead out the last lap, but once he realized he wouldn’t be able to do that, he tried to draft off Bishop’s rear wheel and pass him on the inside. But his plan was thwarted by what he believes was another team’s poor riding. \n“I had Bishop’s wheel then the Black Key Bulls took me in the gutter in Turn 3, so I hope they get relegated to the back of the pack,” Chartier said. “I honestly think I was put in the gutter, not to say necessarily I would have taken Bishop if that hadn’t happened.”\nNeff said both he and Chartier hit a rut in the loose cinder track at nearly the same time. \n“He came kind of into me and I came out into him and we made contact, which really sucks,” Neff said. “If we weren’t going to win, I wanted Dodds to, which kind of sucks. I feel bad if I did anything to him. Hopefully we’re good enough friends to overlook this.”\nWith Dodds and Black Key Bulls bumping wheels, Styacich tried to make his move on the inside part of the track. \n“I knew I’d have to get a lead into Turn 3,” he said. “So I got on the inside in Turn 3 where Bishop was. I thought I had enough to get past him and Chartier. I was able to kick past Chris, but Bishop was just faster today.”\nIn retrospect, Styacich said he should have made his move earlier. \n“I should have pulled myself on the inside earlier and defended – made him come around me,” he said. “I just wasn’t prepared, didn’t put myself in position and he’s just too quick.”\nBishop’s sprint to the finish made for a much more competitive ending than last year, when Alpha Tau Omega then-senior Hans Arnesen finished a full lap ahead of the pack. And the close finish was anticipated by many riders. \nAfter losing to Bishop at Miss-n-Out, Chartier said he thought it might come down to Cutters and Dodds House to finish the Little 500. And he had a race-day prediction. \n“If it comes down to me and Bishop, I have no problem shaking his hand with a couple laps to go and just going mano a mano and seeing who comes out on top this time,” Chartier said on March 31. “I’ll take him next time, and you can go ahead and put that down.”\nAfter Saturday’s race, Bishop wanted his Dodds House foe to take note of the finish. \n“You can tell Chartier that you can mark that one down and put that in the paper.”
(04/23/07 4:00am)
Lindsey Manck admitted she probably watched the finish from the last year’s Little 500 about 20 times. A photo from the finish hung in Manck and her Kappa Delta teammates’ car as they drove around during a spring break training trip. The image shows Kappa Kappa Gamma then-senior Jess Sapp cross the finish line mere inches in front of Kappa Delta then-senior Lauren Ziemba to win the race. For the women who finished the 2006 race in second place, the photo is a bitter reminder. \n“You see that picture a lot,” Manck said. “It sticks with you.” \nAnd to make sure there were no unsettling images from this year’s race, Kappa Delta coach Norm Houze wrote a message on the bottom of that photograph that traveled with the team. “2007 will be different. Expect to win.”\nWith last year’s race still fresh in their minds, Kappa Delta blew past the rest of the women’s field to claim their first ever Little 500 championship. \n“I am ecstatic,” Kappa Delta rider Julie Panzica said \nshortly after the race. “We trained so hard in the fall and \nespecially in the spring, and it’s so nice to be rewarded for all that hard work.”\nAfter sitting with the lead pack of riders for the majority of the race, Kappa Delta made their move at about lap 60. Manck started sprinting past riders from Kappa Alpha Theta, Teter and Kappa Kappa Gamma in preparation for an exchange. The maneuver, called a burnout, gives the team a slight lead so that after an exchange the new rider does not have to make up that much distance. \nBut when Manck started to pull away, nobody seemed to notice. \n“It looked like the pack was not paying attention, or they were getting a little lazy out there, or they didn’t respect us,” Houze said. “So we said ‘Hmm, maybe this is the time to go.’”\nAnd they went. \nInstead of exchanging the bike with teammate Lauren Magee, Manck stayed on the bike and continued her fast pace. Within one lap, she built a five-second lead. \n“We just said ‘OK, we’re going,’” Manck said. “And we weren’t going to look back.”\nBy lap 71, the advantage was a quarter lap. By lap 80, it was half a lap. \nEven after Manck got off the bike, the lead grew. \n“I knew we were strong enough to hold that lead,” Magee said. “So I just gave it my all.”\nMost other teams giving chase thought they would be able to reel in Kappa Delta. Teter, Kappa Alpha Theta and Kappa Kappa Gamma started their pursuit at about lap 90, but by then it was too late.\nKappa Delta crossed the finish line three-fourths of a lap ahead of second-place Teter.\n“It sucks to have to play catch-up the whole race,” said Theta’s Brittany Mahoney. “It’s hard being alone up in front, but if they have that distance and no one can catch them, you know they’re going to be out there for a while.”\nSome Kappa Delta riders thought they might not have been respected. \n“I feel like coming into it a lot of teams maybe overlooked us a lot more because we don’t have the history that Theta does and Kappa (does),” Kappa Delta’s Lauren Reynolds said. “But I feel like now people will watch out for us a little more.”\nWith the win, Kappa Delta became only the third sorority to win in the 20-year history of the women’s race.\nAfter realizing first place was out of reach, Teter and Kappa Alpha Theta positioned themselves for a sprint to second place. Teter’s Sarah Rieke beat out Mahoney from Theta to claim the runner-up trophy. Cycledelics and Kappa Kappa Gamma rounded out the top five.
(04/21/07 10:48pm)
In a sprint to the finish, the Cutters earned their eighth all-time championship. Cutters junior Alex Bishop beat out riders from Phi Kappa Psi, Dodds House, Black Key Bulls and Team Major Taylor to take the checkered flag.
(04/20/07 4:00pm)
It came awfully quickly, didn't it? Looks like perfect conditions for the women's race -- high '60s, sunny skies. It's a good day for cycling.
(04/20/07 4:00am)
Some say Little 500 is all about strategy. But the women of Teter seem to have a pretty simple equation that serves as a team motto: “Ride fast, turn left.”\nAnd so long as they try their hardest, the No. 1 goal for the women is to have fun. \n“If our best means we are the best, that would be extra fun,” said junior Teter rider Sydney Hatten. \nTwo years ago Teter claimed its first Little 500 championship. After rebuilding last year, the women claimed the pole position to start this year’s race and are anchored by record-setting rider junior Sarah Rieke. Rieke set the track record at Individual Time Trials in late March. Despite a third-place finish in the overall series events, other riders rank the women at No. 1, according to an unscientific poll of Little 500 riders by the Indiana Daily Student. \nThe pre-race accolades do have their effects on the riders’ psyches, Hatten said. “But mainly it’s internal pressure of us wanting to do our best,” she said.\nIf Hatten and the Teter women want to earn their second-ever Little 500 title, they’ll have to outlast one of the deepest fields in women’s history. \nIn addition to Teter, eight women’s teams received first-place votes in the IDS poll. \n“The women’s race is going to be a shootout,” said Little 500 Race Coordinator Matthew Ewing. “In the women’s race, there is very little room for error because there are only 100 laps. I think it’s going to be exciting from the time the green flag drops until they get the checkered flag.”\nAnd there could be a large group of teams still in competition during the 100th lap. \n“We’re becoming much more like the guys,” Cycledelics senior Meg Church said of the parity at the top of the pack. \nCycledelics, ranked No. 3 in the IDS poll, received the second most first-place votes.\nJust thinking about competing in her last race makes Church a little sad, she said. \n“I’m trying to soak in everything,” she said. “I feel like sometimes you get caught up in just trying to win ... you just need to take in all the atmosphere. Little 5’s different than any other thing you do, and it’s hard to explain that to anyone who’s not a rider.”\nBut in soaking up all the race has to offer, Church said she would be disappointed without a Little 500 championship, which would be the team’s first. \nAnother team hoping for its first win is Kappa Delta, which nearly won the race last year. Kappa Kappa Gamma’s Jess Sapp out-sprinted Kappa Delta’s Lauren Ziemba to the finish line at the 2006 race. Both riders graduated last year.\nSophomore Lauren Panzica said there is a sense of confidence in Kappa Delta, ranked No. 2 in the IDS poll. \n“We’re not racing for second, and no one else does,” Panzica said.\nIf they win, Kappa Delta would be only the third sorority to win the race. Kappa Kappa Gamma and Kappa Alpha Theta own nine trophies, five and four, respectively. \nSeries winners Kappa Alpha Theta hope by the end of the race they can even the score with the Kappas.\n“I definitely feel like we have the dynamic it takes to get to the final lap,” junior Liz Pallotta said. “I’m extremely confident in every single member.” \nThe women’s race starts Friday at 4 p.m. at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Tickets can be purchased at the gate for $10.
(04/20/07 4:00am)
As the cyclists for Kappa Delta drove from place to place during their spring-break training trip, a photo from the finish of last year’s Little 500 hung in their car. The photo shows then-Kappa Delta senior Lauren Ziemba crossing the finish line a mere inches behind Kappa Kappa Gamma’s Jess Sapp. And at the bottom their coach wrote “2007 will be different. Expect to win.”\nAfter making a break from the pack at about the 60th lap, Kappa Delta cruised to its first Little 500 championship Friday afternoon. Kappa Delta beat out second-place Teter by three-fourths of a lap. \n“We wanted to win it early, and we did,” said Kappa Delta’s Lauren Reynolds. \nAfter a series of accidents that slowed the pack down during the middle of the race, senior Lindsey Manck broke away from the pack and sped up to give her team breathing room for an upcoming exchange. That maneuver, called a burnout, gives the team a cushion so when the new rider takes over she doesn’t have to make up a lot of ground. \nBut when Manck pulled away, she and coach Norm Houze noticed no other team was paying attention.\n“I really expected more people to follow, but nobody followed,” Manck said “We said, ‘OK, we’re going.’ And we weren’t going to look back.”\nWithin one lap, Kappa Delta developed a five-second lead on the next fastest team. Even with Manck off the bike, the team increased its lead. By lap 71 it was up by a quarter lap. By lap 80 the lead was a half lap. \nThe win is Kappa Delta’s first ever Little 500 championship, and it is the third sorority to win the race. \nTeter out-sprinted Kappa Alpha Theta for second place. Cycledelics and Kappa Kappa Gamma rounded out the top-five. \nRead Monday’s Indiana Daily Student for more coverage of Kappa Delta’s win and other women’s and men’s Little 500 content.
(04/19/07 4:00am)
MARTINSVILLE – From atop the bleachers at Bill Armstrong Stadium, thousands of fans that attend the Little 500 bike races can see how well their teams are performing.\nBut for some race spectators, what the riders are doing is far less important than what they are wearing.\n“We worry about the shirts,” said Karla Kindred, a woman living in Martinsville who has sewn all the Little 500 jerseys for more than 15 years. “Of course we don’t want to see anybody get hurt, but we don’t want to see our shirts get hurt, either.”\nSince the early 1990s, Kindred and friend Susan Mannina have had their hands in every single race. \nMannina, who lives in Indianapolis, orders all the Lycra material, designs all the jerseys and cuts all the fabric. Once she is finished, Karla Kindred’s husband Dan Kindred picks up the material and brings it to his wife who sews the jerseys together.\n“She buys them in big pieces and cuts them up, and I put them back together,” Karla Kindred said while sifting through scrap pieces of fabric in her home workroom Wednesday night.\nThe two are proud of their small operation.\n“It’s really a cottage industry,” Mannina said. “It’s very old fashioned. But it works.”\nMannina and Karla Kindred met through Kindred’s mother Kittie Butler, a seamstress who frequently worked with Mannina. Butler taught her daughter how to sew.\nWhen Mannina and her friend Rose Parli started a jersey manufacturing business, they contacted Kindred to sew their material together. One year the three made jerseys for a couple of independent Little 500 teams, but within a few years the IU Student Foundation contracted the three women to make all the Little 500 jerseys.\nFrom that point, the women have had the job. Parli has since moved to South Carolina, but Kindred and Mannina carry on the tradition.\n“We enjoy it because we can do it on our time frame,” Mannina said.\nThere are a few requirements, though. \nKindred and Mannina have to make eight jerseys per color combination – four larges for the men and two larges and two mediums for the women. One set of jerseys must be yellow for the defending champions, one must be green for the pole sitters and one must be white for the series champions. All in all, they make 280 jerseys. \nOther than that, “they don’t put any restrictions on us,” Mannina said. “The way we’ve got it worked out is that they let us do the colors, and we do what we can with the fabric we’re able to buy.”\nThe pair starts working on the jerseys in September of the year before the race. Mannina contacts a Lycra broker living in New York City and orders enough fabric for the jerseys. She’ll finish preparing a pack of about five jerseys and hand them over to Kindred, who, with the help of her mother, finishes the job. Their work must be finished in time for Little 500 Qualifications at the end of March. \n“It gets to be kind of a push at the end of January, early February,” Kindred said. “We push to get them all done, but inevitably, we do.”\nThe women make the jerseys at home in their spare time. Both hold full-time jobs. Kindred works at a jersey-making shop in Martinsville and Mannina works at the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis.\nMannina estimated she spends approximately 100 hours preparing the jerseys. Kindred said she probably spends twice as long.\n“I’ve gotten a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of sleepless weeks,” Kindred said. \nIn addition to the time they spend at the cutting table and the sewing machine, the women try to make it out to watch the race from time to time. Neither had been to the race before making the jerseys. Kindred admitted watching the Little 500 for the first time was a little weird.\nShe’s used to seeing all the jerseys on her worktable, not on the backs of Little 500 riders.\nAs a seamstress, Kindred works with most of her jerseys facing inside out. \n“Here I’ve worked on these and seen them mostly wrong side out,” she said. “Then (at the race) when I see them turned right side in, it’s completely different.”\nThen again, the race is all about perspective.
(04/18/07 2:31am)
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(04/16/07 5:28am)
So, it's officially Little 500 week, and before three-fourths of campus becomes inebriated, we wanted to know who you think will win the Little 500.
(04/12/07 6:58pm)
So The Weather Channel is predicting sunny and (relatively) warm days for both the men's and women's races. Low-60's with 10 percent chance of rain aint to bad. Especially considering what the weather here has been like recently.
(04/09/07 1:50am)
that these guys are going to bite it when they land. Besides, aren't American flags not suppossed to touch the ground?
(04/06/07 1:23am)
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(03/30/07 4:00am)
For junior Ali McCormick and her Kappa Alpha Theta teammates, being the best isn’t a goal. It’s their only option. \nBut the women who call Woodlawn home haven’t crossed the finish line first at the Little 500 since 2003. It’s the longest streak for the four-time champs since 1999, when the women failed to win in their fourth consecutive race.\nMcCormick and Theta’s veteran group of riders have aspirations to change that statistic. They will continue what they hope is their ascension to the top at Miss-n-Out this Saturday at Bill Armstrong Stadium.\n“Our entire team has goals to be the best and be at the top,” McCormick said after her individual time trial. “Theta has a lot of tradition. We’ve worked incredibly hard, so we expect to be at the top every time.”\nThe team qualified fourth for this year’s race, and its four top riders all placed in the top 35 at the Individual Time Trials – one of the best marks of all the teams competing. \nThe girls from Theta are using these series events, including Miss-n-Out, as a chance to reignite their competitive spirit.\n“It puts the fire under your belt,” McCormick said about the series events. “It’s going to make you work harder. We have someone who just set a track record and we don’t want that to happen race day so, we’ll be there at the end. It just makes you work harder.”\nBut the Theta women aren’t the only ones hoping to build on past Little 500 successes. Defending-champion Kappa Kappa Gamma qualified 12th for the race, which is its worst qualification since 1990 when it also qualified 12th.\nBut as junior Kappa rider Anna Gartner knows, qualification position doesn’t mean that much come race day. And she hopes to use Miss-n-Out to work on her race strategy.\n“(In) Miss-n-Out, you are with other girls on the track, you do strategy, find out each other’s strengths and weaknesses,” Gartner said. “It is a race that is more like you will have on April 20.”\nLast year, Gartner’s then-teammate Jess Sapp won Miss-n-Out. Sapp out-sprinted Bella Veloce’s Abby Cooper to take the crown. Sapp and Cooper graduated last year.\nTwo riders from last year’s final six will compete Saturday: Kappa Delta’s Lindsey Manck and Individual Time Trial champ Teter’s Sarah Rieke. Rieke set a track record at ITTs on Wednesday. \nAlpha Gamma Delta senior Laura Miller, a distance rider for her team, said a lot of the individual series events are frustrating because they are built for sprinters.\n“It’s a little more difficult to see your time compared to everybody else,” she said. It helps the team, though, “because the race is a sprint.”\nAnd, ultimately, the most important thing to Miller is that her team is best prepared for the race.\n“We’re not going for the white jersey,” Miller said of the jersey given to the overall series winners. “It’d be awesome to have. It’s just an added bonus. If we get it, that’d be cool. If we don’t, we had fun doing it.”\n– Staff writer Chris Engel contributed to this report.
(03/29/07 4:03pm)
So, it's the Thursday between ITTs and Miss-N-Out, which is Saturday. By this time, you guys probably forget what Bill Armstrong Stadium looks like.
(03/28/07 4:00am)
When sophomore Jackie Moeller takes the track at Bill Armstrong Stadium for the Little 500 Individual Time Trials this evening, she’s going to be telling herself the same thing over and over. \n“It’s only four laps,” said Moeller, who rides for women’s pole-sitter Teter. “That’s it. After four laps, it’s over.”\nThe four-lap, one-mile time trial, which starts at 4 p.m. this afternoon, is a chance for competitors to size up the fastest sprinters in the race. \nIt’s also a chance for cyclists to wear themselves out. \n“It’s so painful; it’s one of the most painful days of the spring,” Cycledelics senior Kim Loebig said about ITTs. “That’s what’s so hard about a mile time trial is that it’s too short to really pace yourself. You kind of have to go all out and then just drag yourself home.”\nGoing beyond that pain might be key to hoisting a trophy at April’s race. In last year’s race, ITT-champion Jess Sapp led her team, Kappa Kappa Gamma, to the victory stage. \nBut Sapp and four other top-10 ITT finishers graduated last May, and the fastest ITT time could be anyone’s for the taking. \nLast year’s third-place finisher Lindsey Manck of Kappa Delta, fourth-place finisher Trevy Ramos of Alpha Phi and sixth-place finisher Kirstin Olson of Alpha Gamma Delta will look to improve on their positions from 2006. \nIn the fall series, Teter’s Sarah Rieke and teammate Moeller took the first and second spots, respectively, at Individual Time Trials and should compete for some of the top spots today. \nUltimately though, most teams are looking to break up the monotony of practice with some competitive rides. \n“It’s not as important as the race, but it is a good way to start seeing where you stand against other teams and other riders,” Loebig said. “You can get excited about the race and the whole spring series.”\nIt also helps some riders justify months and months of training for the race. \n“With the race being just one thing, the series events are nice because they give you the chance to compete,” said Julie Panzica, a sophomore for Kappa Delta. \n– Staff writer Chris Engel contributed to this report.
(03/26/07 7:15pm)
Interesting activity on Pedals and Spokes today.
(03/26/07 4:41am)
Looking back at Quals, I can't help but think it was such a crazy day. First, IUSF announces they will allow alumni coaches in the pits on race day, then Courtney Bishop coaches Team Major Taylor during their qual attempt. And at the end of the day, ATO failed to qualify for the race.