Please welcome aboard Rob and Norris.  Both will be coaching this fall and are truly devoted to seeing high schoolers fall in love with the sport of mountain biking.

Lots of positive feedback from tonight's meeting. A big thanks to Sully and the Southern Nevada Mountain Bike Assoc. for allowing me to speak. It looks like a go for two teams this fall! Anyone else want to start a team? ;)

Southern Nevada Mountain Bike Association meeting tomorrow: Come on out to REI Henderson at 7 p.m. Learn more about where this program is going and what our local IMBA Chapter is doing too. Both programs are in need of involvement and we all know how we feel about mountain bikes!

Day one of the NICA Leaders' Summit, I drank from the fire hose of knowledge.  The classes I attended where those little details you can't imagine or predict from just intellect...it takes experience and I'm grateful that these folks are sharing what has worked or failed.  Let us not recreate the wheel.
Classes attended included:  Engaging & Coaching Adolescents, Concussions (yep, head injuries), Bike Fitting (wow I had no idea), and Creating Holistic Training Programs.
My brain is on overload...tomorrow Ride Skills Clinic!!!

Bags are packed and a mountain bike too.  It is off to the NICA Leaders Summit in Park City, UT.  I'll be coming back with a head full of ideas.  Get ready Nevada, High School Mountain Bike Racing is coming soon!

Come out the the Southern Nevada Mountain Bike Association meeting at REI Henderson 7 pm on May 9th.  I'll be giving a short presentation on what to expect this fall for High School Mountain Biking.  There will be time for some Q&A also.  Also there will be a race in August that will be free to all high schoolers wishing to participate in mountain bike racing.  I like free stuff!

Just got home from the SoCal MTB Race.  The racers were fast, the vibe was incredible and the weather didn't stop these animals!  Swing by the Facebook page and check out the pics and a video too.

http://www.facebook.com/NevadaHighSchoolMountainBikeProgram

Keep riding in the Dirt!
Chris

If you missed last nights webinar, the same class is being offered tonight by a different instructor.  I would encourage you to register for this one webinar over any other.  This webinar covers the basics of starting a high school mountain bike team.  It gives some foundational principals to create a successful youth centered environment and will help you avoid some pitfalls in the first year.  www.nationalmtb.org/nica-webinars/

Future Nevada High School Mountain Bike Coaches!  NICA has opened up the spring webinar series, they are all free and will help you get up to speed on a lot of coaching related issues.  Please go and register for some courses, they are all free at: http://www.nationalmtb.org/nica-webinars/ 
I'll look forward to seeing you in a webinar soon!

Chris

Next weekend 24-25 March is race #3 in the SoCal series. If you can come down to California, join me in volunteering to work at this great race for some active high schoolers. There is camping on BLM land in Lake Isabella, CA. Come and see for yourself what a program in Nevada could look like.

Registered for the Leaders' Summit!

     Well it's official, I'm now registered for the Utah High School Cycling League's - Leaders' Summit at the end of April. I'll go and "rough it" at Utah's Olympic Village for a few days. I'll possess that "Head Coaches License" I've spoken about to many of the followers.
     Then I'm thinking of a stop at Gooseberry Mesa on the way back, I've been meaning to ride a section called "God's Skate Park". Then I'll be bringing back some great information from this summit. So I can't wait to see many others get to go to a conference like this one; get involved and remain involved! Stay tuned, more to come!

To future sucess and partnerships!

Over the last two days my family and I have visited and spoke with bike shop owners all over the Las Vegas Valley.  I am so impressed with the vision and outreach work that is being done.  I know that with their hard work the future of Las Vegas cycling is in great hands.  Please go out and support our local shops.  There are quite a few upcoming bicycle demo days, what better way to find out if you are going to love a new bike than to give the bike a test ride!

March 10th from 9a.m. - 2p.m. - Las Vegas Cyclery hosts a Specialized demo day at: 3650 S. Town Center Dr. Las Vegas, NV (they will be building a new shop here too!)
702 596 2953 or www.lasvegascyclery.com

March 11th from 10a.m. - 2p.m.- All Mountain Cyclery hosts a Specialized demo day at:  Bootleg Canyon in Boulder City, NV
702 453 2453 or www.allmountaincyclery.com

March 24/25th from 10a.m. - 4p.m.- McGhie's Bike Outpost hosts a Trek and Cannondale demo at: 16 Cottonwood in Blue Diamond, NV
702 252 8077 or www.mcghies.com

SoCal Racing Series

Currently Southern California is open to all high school racers. Anyone wanting to race please contact me at NV.HighSchool.MTB@gmail.com

I will forward to you all the info you need to get to some exciting races in Southern California.

Introduction

This blog has been created to help spread the word, educate and begin the development process for a High School Mountain Bike Program in Nevada.  I will keep this blog site up to date with the latest information about things like: Teams that are developing and their results from races, New Sponsors (we need them!), and Key events. I also would like to see communication on who would like to get involved and I welcome questions on how to get involved and the team standup process.

This is going to take a couple of years and some hard working volunteers and sponsors to launch a successful program here in Nevada, but our Nevada Youth deserve something great.

My name is Chris and for more information on the process or other question you can also e-mail or call me:

NV.HighSchool.MTB@gmail.com

(702) 546-9675