A lot of you have been asking and waiting for this to come out and

finally it has, the ECCC 2013 Cyclocross Calendar has been posted to

the Calendar Page [1]. This year it will be a smaller schedule using

events that have been successful in the past with a few new ones

thrown in for charm.

Note that these events are not stand only collegiate events and you

will be racing within a standard USAC race, which means that you must

have a full USAC license in order to race, not just the collegiate

license. In order to get scored in the ECCC standings you must wear

your collegiate kit (or a blank kit if you don’t have a collegiate

kit) during the race and be listed in the results as your collegiate

team.

In order to qualify for Nationals, you must have done at least one

ECCC race, but not necessarily an A race. In order to race at

Nationals, though, you must have an A license. An A racer is

considered a USAC category 1/2/3 rider; B racer 3/4; and C racer 4/5.

Depending on the event and the categories they are running, what the

ECCC defines as A/B/C for points may vary a little.

For the A racers out there, some of the events are UCI races that will

require you to have an UCI License in order to race in highest

category. To balance this out for the people that don’t want to pay

the extra money for the international license, there are other events

on our calendar that are non-UCI events where you can get those

valuable points.

The season starts soon so you better have been using the past month

back at school gluing up tires, running up steps, and getting ready

for the mud (or racing Mountain Bike Season).

[1] http://collegiatecycling.org/eccc/wiki/index.php?n=Calendar.Current

Steve Hopengarten and Tim Manzella

ECCC Cyclocross Coordinates

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Timothy Manzella

Ross Technology Corporation

Engineer/Project Manager

Drexel University 2011

Architectural Engineering – Structural Concentration