Killington
posted
Sep 13, 2012
At the Green Mountain Stage Race in Vermont's Mad River Valley
this past weekend, the Killington Mountain School (KMS) Cycling
Team took multiple podiums including second in the Warren Store
Time Trial and a third-place finish in the Dealer.com Queen
City
Criterium, the fourth and final stage of this Labor Day Weekend
event.
In the Junior category, Ansel Dickey, of Truro, Mass., took
third in the criterium and The Bridges Circuit Race, as well as
second overall in the Sprint points and third in The Bridges
Circuit Race. Brendan Rhim, of Norwich and the reigning Junior Men
Criterium National Champion, finished eighth in the overall Junior
general classification, building on a second-place finish in the
Warren Store Time Trial on Friday. Dickey finished 11th overall in
the general classification.
"This is the largest Pro/am road stage race east of the
Mississippi and in our backyard so it was great to have some strong
finishes on our home turf," said KMS Cycling Head Coach Peter
Vollers. "Brendan started our weekend off with a strong
second-place finish in the time trial and then along with Ansel,
kept the momentum going throughout the weekend. It was a strong
finish to a very successful road racing season."
Rhim started the weekend off on Friday, finishing the Warren
Store Time Trial in 14:32.14. The 5.7 mile course featured a 2.3
mile climb to the Roxbury Gap Road to a slight fast, downhill
section, finishing with a "dip" at 5.2 miles and a short, sharp
climb out for the final 0.3 mile slight uphill climb to the
finish.
Dickey continued with a third-place finish in Saturday's The
Bridges Circuit Race, a 19.9-mile circuit in and around the Mad
River Valley. He also took third on Monday in downtown Burlington
in the criterium, finishing the 15-lap 1-kilometer course in
0:33:25.
The KMS Cycling Team is the newest athletic program to be
offered to student-athletes at Killington Mountain School. The team
is coached by Peter Vollers and Greg Hadley, and all technical
support is provided by Dan McKenna of The Start House Ski and Bike
Shop in Woodstock. Riders are introduced to junior level cycling
that showcases and promotes interscholastic as well as
USAC-sanctioned junior level bicycling racing. There are three
competitive tracks: the first, for dedicated student-athletes who
wish to pursue road cycling, mountain biking and cyclocross racing
development at an elite level, is a year-round athletic program
offered in conjunction with the KMS full-term academic program; the
second is a junior development team comprised of student-athletes
between ages 8-14 that introduces younger athletes to competitive
cycling; the third track is for KMS winter sports athletes pursuing
cycling on a limited basis in the spring and fall.
Killington Mountain School is a fully approved Vermont
independent school whose mission is to inspire students to pursue
excellence in academics and athletics in a culture that promotes
integrity, leadership, responsibility, and respect. To learn more
about alpine, snowboard, freestyle, and freeskiing training and
opportunities, visit www.killingtonmountainschool.org or
call 802.422.KMS1.
