Shaw stacked up the gold medals in two glorious weekends at the Darebin International Sports Centre Velodrome, first taking out the Victorian under-17 women\u2019s time trial and individual pursuit titles before returning at the weekend to add the State keirin title to her collection.<\/p>\n
A sprint silver rounds out a 2026 resume to date that includes a runner-up finish in the Australian Junior Track Series, and her reward was another selection for the Victorian under-17 women\u2019s team bound for the Junior Track Nationals in Brisbane later this month.<\/p>\n
Shaw is no stranger to the event, and Shepparton Cycling Club president and former Olympian Brett Lancaster said the young gun could find even more pace up north.<\/p>\n
\u201cTracks in Australia can be quite slow,\u201d Lancaster said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has a lot to do with air pressure, current temperature and humidity, a combination of things have to be right.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at Anna Meares Velodrome in Brisbane, that\u2019s normally a lot quicker.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you take that into account with Nationals, she should be a couple seconds faster, and then we’ve got a few other little tricks up our sleeve.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Shaw\u2019s development progressing rapidly under the auspices of Lancaster and Steve Fairless, a move up the age brackets could be on the cards for the rising 15-year-old.<\/p>\n
But the focus in the interim will be fixated on Nationals as the Shepparton community rallies around its cycling starlet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe amount she\u2019s improved in a year is mind-blowing,\u201d Lancaster said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo see her step up like this, the way she holds herself, the way she trains, the way she is around other people, she’s doing a really good job.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe’s doing Shepp proud.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Junior Track Nationals will be held at Brisbane\u2019s Anna Meares Velodrome between March 28 and April 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaw stacked up the gold medals in two glorious weekends at the Darebin International Sports Centre Velodrome, first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-517566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}