{"id":661274,"date":"2026-05-11T01:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661274\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:29:10","slug":"top-collegiate-cyclists-race-in-madison-for-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/661274\/","title":{"rendered":"Top collegiate cyclists race in Madison for national championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; Cyclists from 40 universities across the country wrapped up the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships in Madison on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cyclists raced in a loop outside Breese Stevens Field in the afternoon, with more than 350 athletes participating.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Cyclists from 40 universities across the country wrapped up the USA Cycling Collegiate Road...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/FJOVKR377BCG3JZDWU4UPE2TWA.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Cyclists from 40 universities across the country wrapped up the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships in Madison on Sunday.(WMTV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Organizers said the cyclists are the best collegiate riders in the United States, having qualified by participating in local conference races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re all doing the balance of athlete-student and competing for our teams,\u201d Stephanie Lawrence, who won the collegiate varsity women\u2019s championship, said. \u201cIt\u2019s very unique and very fun, and then having a national championship especially right now when we\u2019re all finishing up is extremely stressful but extremely rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Both individual and team national championship titles were awarded, giving students and their schools multiple opportunities for achievement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Many came out to watch the event, which cyclists say contributed to the energy of the competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt was amazing,\u201d Lawrence said. The whole race I could hear people cheering and screaming from the sidelines, so it just made the whole race a lot more fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc15.com\/page\/find-nbc15-news-wherever-you-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to download the WMTV15 News app or our WMTV15 First Alert weather app.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; Cyclists from 40 universities across the country wrapped up the USA Cycling Collegiate Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[417,46285,244461,244462,49,48,635,67032,11517,82,44039,244463],"class_list":["post-661274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-bike","tag-biking","tag-breese-stevens","tag-breese-stevens-field","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-cyclists","tag-madison","tag-sports","tag-usa-cycling","tag-usa-cycling-collegiate-road-national-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}