Team CycleLife p/b Specialized wins USAC Division III Club of the Year

Winning USA Cycling's Club of the Year competition doesn't happen by accident or afterthought. It's not simply awarded to a team that has done well throughout the season, or one that has a bunch of state or national champions on it. There's an intricate scoring mechanism in place (worth looking at - PDF), which awards over 3x as many points for race and clinic promotion as it does for team results. A club can't simply decide in July that they're killing it this season, and expect to win Club of the Year honors. They need to decide in November that they want it the next year, and get busy.

And if they don't decide in November that they want it, but end up doing all the event and community-building work necessary to earn the win anyway, then they truly deserve it. Building the sport for the rest of us is already in their DNA.

Local women's elite team CycleLife p/b Specialized was just awarded the USAC Division III Club of the Year Honors. Division III is comprised of clubs with 1-29 members. Congrats to them for their hard work, and the results they achieved.

If your club is looking to unseat them in 2010, you're already two months behind.