So i am a junior in high school and am starting to look into colleges. I live in Albuquerque NM and looking for a good out of state college with a great cycling team. I love to snowboard so I want to go to a college near a good ski area. Im lookin at colleges in colorado, montana, and utah. I just want you guys too direct me to a good college with a good cycling team it dosnt matter if your perticular college is in the states i mentioned. I have no idea what I want to major in so I am open to any college you guys suggest.

Thanks for the help!

So i am a junior in high school and am starting to look into colleges. I live in Albuquerque NM and looking for a good out of state college with a great cycling team. I love to snowboard so I want to go to a college near a good ski area. Im lookin at colleges in colorado, montana, and utah. I just want you guys too direct me to a good college with a good cycling team it dosnt matter if your perticular college is in the states i mentioned. I have no idea what I want to major in so I am open to any college you guys suggest.

Thanks for the help!CU, CSU, or Ft. Lewis, if you care at all about the college part, skip Ft. Lewis :p. But seriously, these IMHO are the top cyclist schools, and not always in that order. CU seems pretty hot right now, 3 national's winning teams this year.

Oh, and they are all close to good skiing.

If you want to come east, look at University of Vermont. Strong cycling I believe and very close to good skiing.

Out east, UNH and Penn State are also very strong and significantly cheaper than UVM's 40K out-of-state tuition.

Dartmouth has a great D2 team but is a little harder to get into.

There's also Rutgers (shameless plug).

Check out the various NCCA conference sites (www.eccc-info.com is the northeast site) to get a sense of results and participation. Do choose a school that offers good academics. Even a school with a small team can provide a great competitive cycling experience, but the misery of choosing a bad school is long lived.

Western Washington University! we have mount baker and whistler within driving distance

Here's my take as a collegiate racer (and manager/captain of a collegiate team)
In no particular order:

CU
Fort Lewis
Cal St. Poly
Lees McRae (prob one of the best programs in the country, if not THE)
Dartmouth (sp?)

Of course, I'm partical to my program because I've built it from the ground up. I run the University of Utah cycling team. If you're interested, hit me up at utahutescycling at yahoo dot com We have a lot to offer, plus the best skiing in the country and WAY cheap tuition....

Justin

Head to boulder.

lots of local races
see http://www.americancycling.org/ check out the schedule, almost 2 races each weekend april through sept. Then the fun of CX. Wed short track races for 2 months if you like the dirt. (in boulder)

good cycling community.

sweet hills to blow away the competition. Live at 5k + feet, travel to other schools and wipe the floor with them.

the skiing is world class and you can take a bus from boulder to Eldora free with your student bus pass. Student season pass is about 200 or somthing absurd

days in the mid 60's in january.
(yea it snows but 300 days of sunshine melt it fast from the hot asphalt)

Boulder is a sweet party town.

out of state tuition is really expensive. Move here for a year and estiblish residency. Research all that you've got to do to prove it...

I've been in boulder/denver since 97 and totaly love it

You've heard of all the mess with CU's football recruiting...

well for the cycling team they get strippers, huge parties. but the media doesn't care because its cycling!
ok, kidding, that stuff doesn't happen, i think...

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...I have no idea what I want to major in so I am open to any college you guys suggest.

I'm not sure about those western states you listed but if you send any applications east of the Mississippi river you might want to (two, too, ?) capitalize the state name. Sometimes when colleges are looking at candidates they get a little particular about spelling and punctuation. Sorry to harass you but I would do the same thing if my kid wrote this.

well for the cycling team they get strippers, huge parties. but the media doesn't care because its cycling!
ok, kidding, that stuff doesn't happen, i think...
Well, I haven't seen any strippers, but the parties can't be beat......

Just as an aside- how many schools are offering cycling scolorships? If they are, what does a typical one look like? I am looking at Lees McRae, but would be likely to go to a school that offers a scholorship program.

Just as an aside- how many schools are offering cycling scolorships? If they are, what does a typical one look like? I am looking at Lees McRae, but would be likely to go to a school that offers a scholorship program.Not many, CSU does, but it's like 500, so not much.I wouldn't factor that in to your choice.

A friend of mine received a scholarship to midwestern state in TX for a reasonable amount. I know ft. lewis has scholarships, as well as boulder. Boulder is the best place to be, its an awesome cycling community, especially for college. A lot of school cycling teams, mine at least, are starting endowment funds. The elite cycling schools started them way back when, so now they live off the interest the fund accumulates, thus leaving money for scholarships and recruitment of high school grad talent.