Picture by Miki Marcinkiewicz

Enjoy the brief recap sent to us courtesy of Peter Taylor!

In a beautiful weekend at Kissena Velodrome, Star Track hosted their first NYS Track Championships and Junior Track Challenge.

With the help of NYSBRA and other amazing sponsors, the junior riders were able to compete in hard fought races, and grueling time trials throughout the weekend which saw some incredibly close races and wonderful displays of sportsmanship followed by pizza for riders, families and officials.

Congratulations to our latest New York State Champions  especially the Tang, Eng, Edmonds and Chea families that saw multiple sibling victories.

Girls 8-10 – Akira Edmonds

Boys 8-10 – Enzo Edmonds

Girls 11/12 – Natalie Eng

Boys 11/12 – DJ Toback

Girls 13/14 – Emma Eng

Boys 13/14 – Genelyn Tang

Boys 15/16 – Geneway Tang

Girls 15/16 – Rory Chea

Boys 17/18 – Parker Chea

Next year we would hope to get more out of state riders joining the riders from New Jersey and Pennsylvania that made the trip.

Star Track would like to thank NYSBRA for their support in holding the event, the race officials Chris, Kelly and Rob as well as our amazing photo/video team of Miki Marcinkiewicz and Robert Lai.

Check out the brief recap by James Lyman of the Track Championship races that took place on 9/9 – 9/10 in Flushing, NY

Photo by Miki Marcinkiewicz

Kissena Velodrome was a busy place on September 9th and 10th and the weather cooperated this year providing perfect conditions for a weekend of racing.  There were over 100 registrations in which included two separate fields for Women’s (Cat 4 and Cat1234), two Masters (40+ and 55+), Cat 1234 and two senior men’s fields (Cat 4 and Cat 123).  The race schedule was packed with both Sprint and Endurance Omniums as well as Team Pursuits and Team Sprints.

This year also included Keirin races and we were fortunate enough to have an authentic Belgian Derney thanks to Sam Zara of USA Derny.  Notable was that this was one of the largest and most competitive Men’s Cat 123 fields that Kissena has seen in years.

The New York Velodrome Association would like to congratulate our 2017 Omnium State Champions: Women’s Cat 123 Endurance Omnium – Rebecca Book; Women’s Cat 123 Sprint Omnium – Christine D’Ercole; Women’s Cat 4 Endurance Omnium – Leah Goldberg; Men’s Cat 123 Endurance Omnium – Scott Savory; Men’s Cat 123 Sprint Omnium – Mark Wagner; Men’s Cat 4 Endurance Omnium Jonathan Trevett; Master’s 40+ Endurance Omnium – JP Partland; Master’s 55+ Endurance Omnium – Mike Wilpizeski; and Masters 40+ Sprint Omnium – Michael Mahesh

Don’t forget if you were the top NYS finisher in a Championship category to order your jersey! Contact the race promoter for the order link. For a full list of NYSBRA Champions, please visit the website.  For a full list of all track results visit the Kissena Velodrome website.

Here’s some of the highlights from the September 13th meeting.

• Updates to the implementation of USAC Rules for “Mentored Races”
• USAC year-to-date Statistics
• Upgrade metrics and Grant updates

Please visit the link below for the full minutes of the Quarterly Board meeting.

170913- NYSBRA Board of Director Quarterly Meeting Minutes

8/6/17 –  A beautiful summer day was on tap for an exciting Time Trial Championship in Upper Jay, NY, bringing out competitors from all corners of the state. Find out who topped the podium in each category!

If you were crowned a NYS Champion don’t forget to place the order for your Jersey! Please contact the Race Director of the race you won for more info on how to order.  List of current champions can be found online on the NYSBRA site, for any changes please contact secretary@nysbra.com

Still lots of great summer races happening this weekend throughout NYS!

The Plan2Peak Endurance Sport Coaching Two Days of Buffalo.  Only a few hours left to register – CLOSES TODAY AT NOON!

https://www.bikereg.com/the-plan2peak-two-days-of-buffalo

Also this weekend the West-Woodward Memorial Time Trial/New York State TT Championships!

https://www.bikereg.com/west-woodward-memorial-time-trialnew-york-state-tt-championships

Get out there and support these local races!