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FLC takes 5th in nation
Men take fourth, women seventh in team time trial competitions
Herald Staff Report
Photo by Courtesy of Matt Shriver
Sarah Sturm, Missy Erickson, Sabina Kraushaar and Emma Millar (left to right) line up in the cold rain
before Sunday’s women’s team time trial in Fort Collins, in which the Skyhawks took seventh.
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Courtesy of Matt Shriver
Freshman Russ Brown watches senior Ian Burnett warm up for the men’s team time trial Sunday. FLC finished fourth in the event.
The Fort Lewis College men took fourth, and the women crossed in seventh in the final day's team time trials at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road Cycling National Championships in Fort Collins on Sunday.
The men finished 7 seconds out of second and just 3 seconds out of third, with UC-Davis "walking away" with first place, said first-year FLC head coach Matt Shriver.
"To be that close was good," he said. "They rode really well, and they left it all out there."
Shriver said more colleges are starting to specialize in the team time trial event.
"It used to be that if you practiced it a lot, you were at the top every time," he said.
The women, with standout Missy Erickson racing through a variety of injuries sustained in Saturday's crash, never cried uncle in gutting out a seventh-place finish.
"We were left down one rider from the start," Shriver said. "She's a big engine. She's really strong when she's feeling good."
Shriver said he expects the youthful women's team to be competitive for the national title next year.
"With everything going on this season, I think we did pretty well," Shriver said, pointing to his own coaching transition and the youth and injuries on the women's squad.
"The riders are a little disappointed, but they definitely came here and gave it everything they had."
FLC took fifth overall in the omnium, which was won by Whitman College.
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