![]() My first bike race was a cyclocross race. I’m not sure that there was any intention of making it a cyclocross-focused team. MV: The main reason I started to get the team into racing cyclocross was that I was tired of driving to races in New England by myself! It was lonely. We were primarily a road team then.ĬXM: What made you want to get them team involved in racing cyclocross? It was also an older team most of us were graduate students who had started racing in college or later in life. I think we had five or six active members. Mark Vareschi: When I joined the Rutgers University Cycling Team in 2003, it was quite small. In the next installment of the Collegiate Chronicles, Vareschi will talk about his tips for how a collegiate team can go about building their own cyclocross team.Ĭyclocross Magazine: What was the Rutgers team like when you first joined? Mark “Mama Bear” Vareschi has been an integral part in transforming the team into the cyclocross powerhouse that it is today and this week, he’s sharing some background on how the team evolved. Through grassroots organizing, a keen dedication to seeking out great sponsors and riders, and some serious doses of punk-rock DIY attitude, the team has become a legitimate grassroots collegiate cyclocross team, sending four of their riders to US Nationals in Bend, Oregon this past December. We’ll be taking a look at collegiate riders from all levels and from all over the country, race organizers, conference directors and some of the great characters that make up collegiate-level cyclocross.įor our first piece, we have Mark Vareschi, the team director of the Rutgers University Cycling Team, talking about how the team went from a five member road team to a team that has won the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference Cyclocross Championship for the past five years. Collegiate cyclocross is a fast-growing sector of the sport with little written about it, and we plan to change that. ![]() Welcome to the Collegiate Chronicles, the new column that features all things collegiate (sans the keg parties, of course). Vareschi is the team director for the Rutgers University Cycling Team (pictured second from left).
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