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(08/25/11 2:55am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>In an annual staff meeting for the IU Athletics Department on Tuesday, more than 300 employees listened to IU President Michael McRobbie talk about the price of winning.In his speech, McRobbie praised the department’s excellence and recognized championships and other honors.The message was clear. Winning comes at a price, and it’s not one McRobbie is willing to pay.The allegations the University of Miami is currently facing are not news McRobbie wants to see surrounding his school.“He emphasized that this can’t happen here and won’t happen here, and why it won’t happen here and why he won’t tolerate it here,” IU Athletics Director Fred Glass said. “We’re on the exact same page with that, given that our recognized No. 1 priority in the Athletics Department is to follow rules. But it’s good for everyone in the Athletics Department to hear from the top that winning is important, but winning the right way is more important.”
(08/23/11 2:21am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>May 16 - Former IU wrestling coach Doug Blubaugh — three-time All-America wrestler and 1960 Olympic gold medalist — dies in a motorcycle accident in Tonkawa, Okla. Blubaugh was 76 years old.May 20 - Men’s basketball forward Bobby Capobianco announces he’s leaving the program. Capobianco transfers to Valparaiso University.May 22 - Former IU quarterback Dave Schnell passes away after a battle with cancer. He was 44.June 7 - Two Hoosiers are selected during the MLB Draft: outfielder Alex Dickerson by the Pittsburgh Pirates and pitcher Blake Monar by the Washington Nationals.June 18 - Calbert Cheaney is named Indiana’s director of basketball operations. Cheaney, who played for IU from 1989 to 1993, was a three-time All-American and won the 1993 Naismith award.June 27-July 5 - Junior forward Orianica Velasquez competes as part of the Colombian Women’s National Team for the FIFA Women’s World Cup.July 1 - Nebraska officially joins the Big Ten, making it a 12-team conference.July 25 - Former IU wide receiver Terrance Turner wastes little time when the NFL lockout ends to find a team, signing with the Philadelphia Eagles.July 26 - The Washington Redskins sign former IU quarterback Ben Chappell. In 2010, Chappell led the Big Ten in passing yards and completions.July 27 - Gunner Kiel, the nation’s top-rated quarterback, gives IU a verbal commitment.July 27 - Former IU wide receiver Tandon Doss signs a four-year deal with the Baltimore Ravens.Aug. 11 - Kevin Wilson and radio hosts Zakk and Jack of WNDE 1260 AM argue on air.Aug. 18 - The IU Board of Trustees approves construction for a new baseball and softball complex.
(08/20/11 9:36pm)
A preseason finale game against Ball State that included two 35-minute halves and one 15- minute half was supposed to be preparation for the field hockey team's 2011 regular season.
(08/20/11 5:25pm)
In the first half of their first game of the 2011 season, Indiana scored two goals in their game at Bill Armstrong Stadium against the Evansville Purple Aces.
(08/11/11 10:13pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>To the students of Indiana University, it’s not just a bike race. It’s the Little 500.Each spring, hundreds of students turn into athletes in the largest collegiate cycling race in the country and the biggest intramural event at IU when they ride in the Little 500. Modeled after the motor race that takes place 56 miles away at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Little 500 sends four-person teams in separate races for men and women around a quarter-mile track. Howdy Wilcox, then-executive director of the Indiana University Student Foundation, founded the Little 500 race in 1951, 32 years after his father won the Indianapolis 500.The race has since been featured in the 1979 movie “Breaking Away,” which tells the tale of an underdog team of locals who work to win the race. The team acquires the nickname “Cutters” after the phrase used as an insult to stone cutters who worked at Bloomington limestone quarries.Similar to the traditions of kissing the sidewalk and drinking cold milk that accompany the Indy 500, the Little 500 is full of the traditions of mounting Schwinns and crashing on Turn Three.But it’s also an experience — one that former Cutters rider Eric Young will never forget.Young, a four-year rider for the historic Bloomington team, crossed the finish line first each of his four years riding in the Little 500 — it’s a feat no other rider had done before.The Cutters rider had always planned to go to graduate school for neuroscience following his time in Bloomington. He had never heard of the Little 500 before his first year at IU, but four championships and one contract later, Young became a professional cyclist for Bissell cycling.“I did not think I would be earning money to race until my senior year,” Young said. “I learned a lot from Little Five — a lot about teamwork and perseverance. It definitely defined my college experience.”Coordinated by the IU Student Foundation, the Little 500 helps raise money that goes to working student scholarships. Little 500 has raised more than $1.5 million in scholarships since its inception. And though it is an intramural event, Wing It! rider Abigail Legg said most teams don’t treat it like one.“We train about six days a week,” Legg said. “We change our diets around Little Five. We change our class schedules around Little Five. ... You’re part of something so much bigger than yourself and much bigger than just a bike race in April.”
(06/01/11 4:46pm)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Cutters won the 61st running of the men’s Little 500, earning the team its fifth-straight victory — a feat no other team in Little 500 history has accomplished.Just 45 laps into the 200-lap race, the defending champions found their rookie rider Kevin Depasse in a wreck after a Sigma Nu rider knocked his handle bars.Once they recovered, they found themselves a lap down to Phi Delta Theta, the race leaders.Phi Delt finished second in the 2010 race. It was senior Phi Delt Steve Sharp, Chris West and Sven Gartner’s last shot at the Borg-Warner trophy, and they spent the next 154 laps defending their position at the front.However, the legs of a whole team pulled the Cutters out of their one-lap deficit.“We just were kind of patient, tried to not get too uptight, just got from there and just take it a bit at a time,” senior Cutters Zach Lusk said. “It just shows you it’s a crazy race. Anybody can crash. Anything can happen. Luckily it happened early, so we had a lot of time to catch up.”By lap 175, 130 laps after the wreck, the Cutters were back in the lead lap and pulled to the front.Eric Young got on the bike. He was set to pedal the final 10 laps of one of the most storied Little 500 careers.He pedaled behind Phi Delt as it went in for two exchanges. Then on Lap 199, Phi Delt shocked Bill Armstrong Stadium when the team went in for an exchange. This time, Young raised himself off his seat and pumped his legs, creating a gap between him and the Phi Delt exchange.Young raced the final three turns with no competition, pedaling to his team’s 12th title in its 27-year existence.“It’s everything,” he said. “Getting lapped and un-lapping yourself. Five years of winning in a row. It being my last year ... I didn’t expect us to get a lap down but I also didn’t expect us to get a lap back either.“It came down to a race of who was the strongest team. I knew we could do it.”After the race, Young announced his decision to turn pro. He will join the BISSELL Pro Cycling Team.
(04/29/11 2:28am)
Sophomore Leslie Hureau and junior Evgeniya Vertesheva earned All-Big Ten honors Thursday after the Hoosiers beat Penn State 4-0 in their opening round match of the Big Ten Championships.
(04/27/11 5:24am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Paused in a crouch, the Redstorm Rugby players glare into their opponents’ eyes. Inches separate them. Seconds pass. They lunge. For Redstorm Rugby, IU’s women’s Rugby Club, there is no protective gear, no jewelry and no soft mentalities. There is a lot of pushing, pulling, shoving and bruising competition.They play a game of respect based on laws (rules) and run by sirs (referees). They’re college women playing the game more known for European men with large chests and tiny shorts, but IU’s Redstorm has scrummed off North Fee Lane since 1996.They might seem brutal on the field, but their car trips are filled with 90s hits, and nobody dares skip a Disney song. They giggle at the way their Irish-accented GPS says the word “hundred.” When the car stops for a rest in West Virginia on the way to a weekend tournament in Charlottesville, Va., some Redstorm players are afraid to get out of the car. They fear they look “too gay” for the place. They stick with late-night practices and tournaments states away because they are obsessed with eating, thinking, breathing, dreaming, playing and partying around rugby.They are rough on the field, but off the field they’re just students pursuing degrees in subjects such as atmospheric science, athletic training and music. They’re a group of women who, contrary to popular belief, have all their teeth.On the field, they’re the toughest women you never knew existed. * * *It’s a rugby Saturday. Senior Susan Werbe watches the game from the edge of the parking lot after she received a red card for stomping, an act of driving another player into the ground with a foot. Werbe admits it wasn’t her shining rugby moment. In rugby, a red card means the player must leave the field, and there are no substitutes for a player who receives a red card. Redstorm plays with 14 instead of 15.Werbe watches the teams clash. Despite being outnumbered, IU pulls ahead.Werbe can’t stand the distance between the team and her. She throws on a sweatshirt, pulls up the hood so the sir can’t see her face and walks closer to the field. As a freshman, Werbe was asked to join the rugby team. She refused, saying she was “too girly” for the sport. Now she doesn’t take a second look at the purple and green bruises from the hits she takes. She can’t get enough.“I’m addicted to rugby,” Werbe said.The team has found a family and bonded through acceptance and praise. They braid each other’s hair and scream at bed bugs in shabby motels together. Some of the girls have hidden secrets for years. They have had people project assumptions on them for the way they dress or style their hair and for the sport they play. In fact, some of the players are gay and some are straight. But that’s not what defines them as athletes or people. * * *The Redstorm players are dressed in athletic shorts and T-shirts and let yawns escape periodically.It is past 10 p.m. on a Tuesday. Drinks are on special for $2 at Kilroy’s, but the team doesn’t care.On this night, they occupy half of the field inside Mellencamp Pavilion. The club baseball team practices on the other side. Both teams are cramped, leaving the rugby team to work with less than half of a field they use for official matches.“Come on, ladies!” shouts one of the girls. “You don’t whisper in a game. Talk loud.”The Redstorm players sling the oval-shaped ball across their bodies to their target. It’s a drill of choreographed chaos, and the lack of communication leads to a few overthrown balls hitting girls in the head.In the middle of the madness is senior Tyra McGrady. The 5 foot 2 inch tall winger might not be the height of a dreamed-up rugby player, but as a two-time First Team All-American, she believes she has the potential to play for one of the women’s leagues.While she knows she might have to use her degree in exercise science to find a second job to support her rugby career, she only wants to play rugby. In the final drill of the night, McGrady somersaults and then springs into a full sprint without missing a beat. The rest of the players are so exhausted. They jog, flail and crawl between lines. “I’m not going to be able to walk when I’m thirty,” McGrady says with a laugh after practice.“They have a wheelchair rugby squad,” someone assures her.“So it never has to end,” McGrady says. “Rugby’s life. After rugby, there’s death.”* * *It’s another rugby Saturday. Redstorm shows up to Mad Bowl Field along Rugby Road at the University of Virginia. The squad that made the trip consists of mostly rookies as tests. Personal reasons kept five of nine senior starters at home.A rookie known as “Jacobs” sits by her teammates as they braid each other’s hair. Her arms are wrapped around her knees. She has a nervous smile on her face.Jacob’s hands are everything. As a freshman in IU’s Jacobs School of Music — hence her nickname — her entire career rests completely on her 10 fingers. But rugby brings her joy. She loves rugby just as she loves music.Vaughn Mitchell, the coach and former IU men’s rugby player, breaks her nervous smile as he gives advice. “The key is to make your tackles,” he tells his rookies. “If you don’t, they’re going to be out to the races.”During the game, Jacobs’ prized hands catch the ball after a Virginia kickoff. It is a play the rookie hadn’t accomplished in the last seven months. Vaughn cheers from the sideline in joy. The rugby girls hug Jacobs. The celebration doesn’t last long. A few tackles later, the ball is back in Virginia’s hands and Virginia scores a try, which is worth five points. In the end, Virginia scores 67 unanswered points. After the game, the team sits in silence, but smiles quickly spread through the team. Sure, they’re upset about the loss, but they know how to celebrate the tiny victories.“It’s all about adversity, how are you going to respond?” Vaughn tells Redstorm. “What can you do individually? We didn’t come all the way through the mountains for 10 hours to just lie down.”Two luxury buses pull up to the field. Vaughn follows the glances of his players.“Ya’ll, we ain’t got Ivy (League) money,” Vaughn says with a laugh.* * *Abby Yates leans against the edge of the third floor of the parking garage that overlooks the final pitch of a rugby tournament weekend.As a bird chirps, Yates sighs. Earlier in the morning, she clambered to the floor-to-ceiling window of her Days Inn room only to peel back the curtain and see rain falling hard.It could sprinkle or downpour — it doesn’t really matter. Redstorm plays in anything but lightning — especially downpours. Muddy clothes are encouraged. Nobody wants to warm up in the downpour, so they share the lower level of the garage with some guys playing bike polo. Redstorm rugby always shares its space. The rain continues to pour. Redstorm stays dry until eight minutes before the game.Then Vaughn looks at his watch and says, “I kept you dry long enough. Let’s go.”As they leave the parking garage, the team tries to run straight to the pitch, but Vaughn stops them at an open field beyond the gated playing area.“Right shoulders, right shoulders,” he yells.In pairs, the rugby girls crouch before they spring forward, tackling each other at the right shoulder. They fall to the ground. Mud sprays into the air and over their faces, making them look like battle-worn soldiers. They take the field against Princeton just hoping to not miss tackles and to finish the scrums.Redstorm loses, scoring only once, but the team leaves the field not really knowing the score. The scoreboard isn’t used, but the score doesn’t seem to matter to Redstorm anyway. With Redstorm, it isn’t just about winning. It is about learning and coming together.As they walk off the field, they think about the 10-hour drive back to IU in wet clothes. There’s no visiting team locker room in which to change. No bathroom is close enough — just the parking garage.From behind their opened car doors, the rugby girls begin to change into dry clothes.“Hey! Don’t look,” they giggle to each other as East coast girls in a red Ford Taurus drive by, wide-eyed.Just one more thing they have to share.
(04/27/11 3:28am)
Caela Barry, a member of Redstorm Rugby club, prepares to stiff arm a defender in Redstorm's game against the University of Pittsburgh on March 5 in Charlottesville, Va. IU lost to Pitt. No scoreboard gave the score and the referee wasn't willing to release the statistic.
(04/27/11 3:27am)
Redstorm Rugby Club scrums before its game against University of Virginia on March 5 in Charlottesville, Va. Redstorm was defeated 67-0.
(04/26/11 1:39am)
This is the true post of Little 500 riders picked to have their lives surrounding America's Greatest College Weekend posted to the web. To find out what happens when the IDS stops just reporting and starts getting real...check here for The Real Ride -- Little 500 style.
(04/25/11 1:17am)
Members of the softball team gather in a huddle during the IU vs. Ball State softball game on Wednesday at the IU Softball Field.
(04/25/11 1:16am)
Sophomore infielder Breanna Saucedo steps up to the plate to bat during the Hoosiers' win against Ball State on Wednesday at the IU Softball Field.
(04/22/11 12:57am)
Senior pitcher Morgan Melloh pitches during the IU vs. Ball State game Wednesday at the Softball Field. The Hoosiers won 3-0.
(04/22/11 12:57am)
Junior outfielder Heather Nelson hugs senior pitcher Morgan Melloh after their win against Ball State on Wednesday at the Softball Field. Melloh broke the single season strikeout record during the game.
(04/21/11 3:06am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Every year, Little 500 cyclists strategize, ride aggressively and pedal in a pack in hopes of winning it all. Mistakes are made. Tires and handle bars collide. We’re left with a memory of tires, bike frames and student-athletes flying into the air.What they’re left with are the stories and the cinder scars to prove them.The one and onlySenior Matt Woerner felt chills go up his arms as the names of the Little 500 women’s teams were announced.Woerner has spent almost four years in Bloomington. He had never seen the races that make up the World’s Greatest College Weekend, but he was set to pedal in the men’s race the next day.His team, #JungleExpress, was comprised completely of rookie riders who decided in the fall that the traditional IU bike race seemed like a great way to end their time in Bloomington.At around lap 15 of 200, Woerner made a clean exchange with his teammate and pedaled his first lap on the cinder track. Then he pedaled his second. He said he was excited to be racing in the Little 500, and maybe he was too aggressive. But lap three didn’t go as smoothly as laps one and two.As Woerner rounded the backstretch into turn three, his front tire overlapped with the back tire of the bicycle in front of him.“The tires just got locked up,” Woerner said. “They were just stuck like glue.”He knew then he was going to crash. He heard the crack of his helmet. He felt the burn of the cinders. Soon he was looking at the fenders of his bike.Scrapes bled across his knees, his ankle and his shoulder.And just like that, 15 minutes into the race, his Little 500 cycling career was over.“It’s unfortunate, and I’m trying to remain positive, but it was just too short-lived,” the #JungleExpress rookie said.The doctor on the infield refused to let him back in the race. His three rookie teammates rode 182 laps without him. They finished 24th.“It was my first and last Little Five,” Woerner said. “It’s not what I wanted obviously, but just the whole atmosphere, just the journey to do it with these three guys. ...It’s just a great experience and an honor to be a part of it. I’d do it again.”Fall down, get back upSophomore Tom Laser was rounding turn three when the first crash happened. It was lap 45 and a row in front of him a rider’s handle bars collided with the rider next to him, causing him to fall off balance to the track. Like a row of dominoes, the pack began dropping to the cinders when they came in contact with the falling bikes.The rookie Beta rider was a few rows into the pack. There was no way to get out of it. He knew he was going down.“It was kind of — brace yourself,” Laser said.He flew off the bike and hit the cinders while the front tire of his bike popped off the frame. His teammate hopped on a bike and took off down the track while Laser walked back to his pit.It was lap 100. Laser and a rider were working together to pull each other around the track. Laser went in for an exchange — at the same time as the rider he was working with.“He clipped my wheel a little bit,” Laser said.When he hit the cinders this time, he wasn’t able to brace himself. His head hit the track.“I went down real hard,” Laser said. “Don’t really remember much.”He realized his helmet was no longer on his head. His sunglasses were gone and, for some reason, he was looking at the crowd.“The EMTs ran out and kind of asked me how I was,” Laser said. “I was a little out at that point, so they put me on the stretcher and took me off.”In the medical tent, the EMTs asked Laser questions to see if he was showing signs of a concussion. He passed, and they told him if he could get up and walk around after a few minutes, they would let him decide if he wanted to return to the race.Laser wasn’t going to waste a year of training watching the race from the tent.“As soon as they told me they were going to let me make the decision, I was set on going back out,” Laser said. “I didn’t want to leave my teammates out there in the rain doing another 100 laps.”Laser was rounding turn three; 58 laps had passed since the crash that caused him to be carried off in a stretcher.He said his third crash was much like the first one.“I believe contact was made maybe one or two rows in front of me. I saw a rider to my left go down and then to my right,” Laser said.He hit the cinders, rolled and landed on his bike. His bike was still intact, so he picked it up, dusted himself off and jumped back on the pedals.“When I jumped on the bike, I thought, ‘Really, three times?’” Laser said. “As I rode past my pit, I kind of shrugged at my coach. That’s how it goes, I guess.”Laser said he didn’t sustain any major injuries and has no head pains. He now has bruises on his hips, back and shoulders and cuts all over. He’ll return to the bike in about a week.“When you train for nine months or a year for something that goes by in two hours, you really want to get every moment of it,” Laser said.
(04/21/11 12:52am)
Senior Morgan Melloh pitched her way to a record. She broke the season strikeout total of 361 on Tuesday at the IU Softball Field. The Hoosiers won 3-0.
(04/20/11 2:39am)
Junior pitcher Blake Monar pitches to Ohio State's top of the line-up on April 8 at Sembower Field.
(04/19/11 2:37am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Any other week of the school year, senior Kyle Tutton goes out to a bar twice a week on average.During Little 500, Tutton was one of thousands of IU students who extended the “World’s Greatest College Weekend” into a full week.Tutton started with Kilroy’s on Kirkwood on Monday and made a trip almost nightly to the bars until Saturday. His celebrations, along with a majority of the rest of campus, had an effect on Bloomington.Mike McAfee, the executive director of Monroe County Convention and Visitors Bureau, said while there aren’t any specific numbers, the Little 500 and the week leading up to it made a definite impact on Bloomington’s economy.“It’s a lot of friends coming in to party with friends,” McAfee said.More couches in Bloomington were taken up, leaving hotel rooms still vacant. Restaurants absorbed most of the impact, McAfee said.Susan Bright, co-owner of Nick’s English Hut, said Little 500 is one of Nick’s biggest weekends. Patrons started trickling in more than usual Tuesday, but the big culmination was the weekend.“We probably saw 2,000 people on Saturday and Friday,” Bright said. “It’s like our big football weekends. We have to add staff and add deliveries of beer, liquor and food.”At Nick’s, every employee of the 75-member staff is expected to work. It’s something each employee knows when they are hired, Bright said.“You have to have a pretty good excuse not to,” she said with a laugh. “We like it. We look forward to it, but we’re glad when it’s over though too.”Big Red Liquors also saw an increase in sales. Wade Shanower, president of Big Red Liquors, said a majority of their Little 500 activity is on Friday and Saturday.“Little 500 is our largest week of the year overall in Bloomington,” Shanower said.Although he declined to give specific numbers, Shanower said the week before Little 500 and the week after the races are normal sales weeks. However, Little 500 sales compare with Welcome Week, Labor Day weekend and tailgates before football games.“We have lots of impact in the fall, but it’s over five to seven home games,” Shanower said. “Little Five is really concentrated.”The real impact Little 500 has on Bloomington is the attention it draws.“It’s one of the best events in the country for a university,” McAfee said.That is why the “World’s Greatest College Weekend” drew students from other universities such as Notre Dame, Ball State and Purdue.“Once you’ve come to Little Five once, you’re going to want to come back,” Tutton said.
(04/18/11 3:07am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>As Eric Young looked over his right shoulder, he saw Phi Delta Theta go in for an exchange.It was a Lap 199. It was the move the Cutter had been waiting for.The four-year Cutters rider sprinted the final three turns to win the 61st running of the men’s Little 500, earning his team its fifth-straight victory — a feat no other team in Little 500 history has accomplished.“My last set I was tired,” Young said. “It was just about marking people and staying with them. Phi Delt was attacking pretty good. On the last set, they exchanged, and I knew it was over once they did that.”The exchange was an opportunity Young said he thought he would never have. Just 45 laps into the 200-lap race, the defending champions found their rookie rider Kevin Depasse in a wreck after a Sigma Nu rider knocked his handle bars.The Cutters found themselves in a rare position — battling from behind to get to the front of the pack.A majority of the crowd cheered. Once the Cutters recovered, they found themselves a lap down to Phi Delta Theta, the race leaders.Phi Delts finished second in the 2010 race. It was senior Phi Delts Steve Sharp, Chris West and Sven Gartner’s last shot at the Borg-Warner trophy, and they spent the next 154 laps defending their position at the front.However, the legs of a whole team pulled the Cutters out of their one-lap deficit.“We just were kind of patient, tried to not get too uptight, just got from there and just take it a bit at a time,” senior Cutter Zach Lusk said. “It just shows you it’s a crazy race. Anybody can crash. Anything can happen. Luckily it happened early, so we had a lot of time to catch up.”By lap 175, 130 laps after the wreck, the Cutters were back on the lead lap and pulled to the front.Young, whose eligibility was questioned by other riders because of his affiliation with a pro team, got on the bike. He was set to pedal the final 10 laps of one of the most storied Little 500 careers.At lap 195, Phi Delts went in for an exchange in their pit near turn one.It could have been Young’s chance to break away, but instead he stopped pedaling. He waited until Phi Delts made a clean exchange. They pulled in front of Young for the lead around the track. Young drafted on their bike tire for two laps until the Phi Delts went in for another exchange. It was his second chance to pull away. Young chose to stop pedaling again. He rode two more laps on the back tire of the Phi Delts. Then on Lap 199, Phi Delts shocked Bill Armstrong Stadium when they went in for an exchange. This time, Young raised himself off his seat and pumped his legs, creating a gap between him and the Phi Delt exchange.“We’ve done it before,” West said of the exchange. “We were hoping it would work, but it didn’t.”Young raced the final three turns with no competition, pedaling to his team’s 12th title in its 27-year existence.“We were just trying to hold him off,” West said of Young’s attack. “It was tough. It was essentially us on the front a lot of the time. It was just hard to hold him off. He’s a great rider.”Young crossed the finish line on the cinder track at Bill Armstrong Stadium for the final time in his Little 500 racing career.It wasn’t the exact way he expected the race to be won, but comparing the last two victories, Young said this year’s race was better.“It’s everything,” he said. “Getting lapped and un-lapping yourself. Five years of winning in a row. It being my last year ... I didn’t expect us to get a lap down but I also didn’t expect us to get a lap back either. ... It came down to a race of who was the strongest team. I knew we could do it.”After the race, Young announced he will turn pro Wednesday. He will join the BISSELL Pro Cycling Team.