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A thank you from the Brands Cuevas team!

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NYSBRA Board,
 
Thank you for all the time and fiscal support you provided the team this year. 
 
The support from NYSBRA is more than appreciated – it truly enables our team. 
 
We have a small budget – and your support of the team and athletes is a large part of the grassroots success we have achieved. It’s directly impactful.    As you also know – we enable the under resourced community. The philosophy of the team is everyone has the same opportunities – same equipment, coaching, training and races. 
 
Our team is only comprised of NY juniors and the NY community supports our team! 
 
NYSBRA participation has helped us grow the program to over 35 active juniors. We now offer programs from the clinic level all the way to the National level. 
 
We have grown both NY Track and Road junior participation significantly and have had many successes – although podiums are not the goal.  
 
Some metrics of our team are below:
35+ juniors participated
15 juniors raced on the track
17 juniors races on the road
14 distinct juniors on the podium
13/14 Road Nats Road and Crit 5th
13/14 Road Nats TT 11th
15/16 NYS Champions TT, Track
13/14 NYS Champions TT, Road, Track
15/16 NE Champions Crit 1 and 3
17/18 Bear Mtn 3rd
13/14 Somerville 1st
13/14 Chris Hinds USA Talent ID 1st
13/14 USA Regional Track Talent ID 3rd
All Age Groups – local podiums, Floyd Bennett/Kissena Track Races/Merrick Crit/Grants Tomb
 
Thanks again!!
Doug 

NYS Junior competes in Junior Tour of Ireland

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As a very strong and technically capable rider, albeit with limited road racing experience, Tommy was tasked with looking after our two strongest riders for the hills, Jaymz Lipinski and Nic Narraway.  From the start, Tommy was selfless and focused on his mission as a domestique stopping for Nic when he had a crash on stage 2 and then on stage 3 pacing him back to the group after a flat tire not once, but twice; 30 minutes of riding he described as the toughest of the week.

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