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NORBA USA National Championships - CN
USA, July 13-July 16, 2006
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Race 2 - Friday, July 14: U23 Cross Country
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The three members of the USA Cycling U23 Cycling Team present in Sonoma, California controlled the action of the U23 National Championship Friday morning, working together to distance themselves from the rest of the fourteen-strong field.
Sam Schultz, who has been present and placing in NORBA races throughout the 2006 season, was then able to break from teammates Sam Jurekovic and Colin Cares to grab the national championship jersey most recently worn by his brother Andy. The win earns Schultz a free ride to Roturoa, New Zealand as a member of the US National Team.
Later on Friday, the U23 women joined the pro women's race. 21 year-old Jenna Zander (Cannondale) was first U23 woman across the line with a time fast enough that she would have earned tenth in the 43-woman field if she had entered as a pro.
Photography
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Images by Rocky Arroyo / www.arroyophotography.com
- The U23 men's cross country race started in cool morning air. The low clouds would burn off by race's end.
- Andrew Freye
- U23 riders did four laps of the 7.7-mile course.
- Spencer Paxson leads his teammate up a gravel-road section of the course.
- Mitchell Peterson
- Ross Scatchard
- Sam Schultz worked with his two U23 National Team mates to tightly control the race.
- Schultz earned his family's second U23 national championship jersey. The first was won by brother Andy in 2005.
- Mitchell Peterson and his teammates chased the U23 team riders without success.
- A look of acceptence from the field as the heavily-favored U23 team dominated the race.
- Sam Schultz was able to outsprint his teammates to take his first national-championship jersey.
- Sam Schultz
Results
U23 Men 1 Sam Schultz (U23 National Team) 2.08.39 2 Sam Jurekovic (U23 National Team) 0.01 3 Colin Cares (U23 National Team) 0.15 4 Andrew Freye (Bikeman.Com) 4.06 5 Spencer Paxson (Balance Bar) 6.12 6 Mitchell Peterson (Devo) 6.13 7 Adam Snyder (Balance Bar) 12.05 8 Ross Scatchard (Bliss Racing) 13.08 9 Austin Carroll (Devo/Nso) 24.42 DNF Eric Ransom (Tamarack ) U23 Women 1 Jenna Zander (Cannondale) 1.55.42 2 Chloe Forsman (Tokyo Joe's) 2.14 3 Melanie Meyers (Ford Cycling) 8.47 4 Caitlyn Tuel (Penn State) 10.18 5 Sabra Davison (Balance Bar) 15.40 6 Hillary Wright (Devo) 21.34
