May 4/18 18:35 pm - Myatt Wins US Collegiate Road Nationals
Posted by Editoress on 05/4/18
Mackenzie Myatt, today won gold at the US Collegiate Road Nationals held in Grand Junction, Colorado. This is her 2nd national championship this school year. The first was for mountain biking in the Fall.
Myatt (20) has competed in two Canada Games for Nova Scotia, at World Cups in Europe and just this past year, she won the USA Cycling Varsity Mountain Biking Championship in the US where she goes to school on a full athletic scholarship. She also won a silver medal at the Canadian National Mountain Bike Championships last July.
Myatt is also a participant in Cycling Canada's Mountain Bike NextGen development program for Canadian cyclists under 23. In the last couple of months, she has been training at the National Cycling Centre in Victoria, racing in California, and will return to Europe this month to gain more international experience racing mountain bike World Cups in Germany and the Czech Republic. She will then race in the Canadian mountain bike nationals in Alberta later this summer with hopes to qualify for the world championships in Switzerland in September.
Sponsored by Trek's new Great Athletes Ride Trek (GART) program and Cyclesmith locally in Halifax, Myatt is also a scholarship student at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia. She is from Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia and also a Fast and Female Ambassador.
Myatt returns to Halifax Monday, May 7th then on to Europe on May 14th to race two mountain bike World Cups with Team Canada.
Report courtesy Laurie Cook
Results
| Women Varsity | |
| 1 Mackenize Myatt (Savannah Coll A&D - Atlanta) | 2:41:56. |
| 2 Sophie Russenberger (Fort Lewis College) | at s.t. |
| 3 Ashlyn Woods (Lees-McRae College) | 0:03 |
| 4 Samantha Runnels (Lindenwood University) | |
| 5 Natalia Franco (CO Mesa University) | both s.t. |
| 6 Emma Swartz (Marian University) | 0:06 |
| 7 Lisa Neumueller (Savannah Coll A&D - Savannah) | s.t. |
| 8 Hannah Arensman (Brevard College) | 0:07 |
| 9 Erica Allar (Piedmont College) | 0:17 |
| 10 Charlotte Backus (Fort Lewis College) | s.t. |
| 11 Stephanie Nave (Milligan College) | 0:19 |
| 12 Laurel Rathbun (Marian University) | 0:20 |
| 13 Abigail Youngwerth (Savannah Coll A&D - Savannah) | 0:26 |
| 14 Megan Heath (Piedmont College) | 0:32 |
| 15 Madison Kelly (Marian University) | |
| 16 Madeline Bemis (Milligan College) | |
| 17 Emelie Persson (CO Mesa University) | |
| 18 Annika Teschke (Lindenwood University) | all s.t. |
| 19 Emily Abraham (Fort Lewis College) | 0:37 |
| 20 Janelle Cole (Brevard College) | 0:41 |
| 21 Judah Sencenbaugh (Savannah Coll A&D - Atlanta) | 0:43 |
| 22 Alijah Beatty (Marian University) | 0:58 |
| 23 Brissia Montalvo (Midwestern State U) | 4:44 |
| 24 Helen Mitchell (Milligan College) | 4:46 |
| 25 Kira Payer (Fort Lewis College) | 4:47 |
| 26 Victoria Kanizer (Milligan College) | 4:53 |
| 27 Ellie Morgenthaler (Lindenwood University) | |
| 28 Dafne Theroux Izquierdo (CO Mesa University) | both s.t. |
| 29 Luise Ollick (CO Mesa University) | 5:06 |
| 30 Zoe Mullins (Milligan College) | 5:30 |
| 31 Katherine Santos (Marian University) | 6:32 |
| 32 Marta Morris (Marian University) | 7:01 |
| 33 Leah Silverman (Warren Wilson College) | 11:22 |
| 34 Rachel Cross (Marian University) | 11:56 |
| 35 Tristen Musselman (Fort Lewis College) | 13:18 |
| 36 Elia Valles Gamundi (Savannah Coll A&D - Atlanta) | 17:41 |
| 37 Vanessa Botero (Milligan College) | 17:44 |
| 38 Diana Ramos (Milligan College) | 17:50 |
| 39 Amy Floyd (Midwestern State U) | s.t. |
| 40 Savannah Adams (Fort Lewis College) | 17:56 |
| 41 Moriah Swan (Savannah Coll A&D - Atlanta) | 17:57 |
| 42 Gabriella Arnold (Marian University) | 18:02 |
| 43 Sarah Parker (Liberty University) | 18:03 |
| 44 Erin Sferrazza (Lees-McRae College) | 18:10 |
| 45 Madison Shepherd (Western State CO U) | 21:59 |
| 46 Josefine Dreier (CO Mesa University) | 23:48 |
| 47 Chantelle Van Staden (Savannah Coll A&D - Atlanta) | 23:56 |
| 48 Aspen Wallace (Western State CO U) | 24:19 |
| 49 Alayne Beshey (Lindenwood University) | 32:11 |
| 50 Cammie Robbiano (Belmont Abbey College) | 39:11 |
| DNF Gwendalyn Gibson (CO Mesa University) | |
| DNF Leigh Dukeman (Lindenwood University) | |
| DNF Charlotta Zeiler (Savannah Coll A&D - Savannah) | |
| DNF Amalia Restrepo (Savannah Coll A&D - Savannah) | |
| DNF Bailey Scanlan (CO Mesa University) | |
| DNF Emily Strange (Mars Hill University) | |
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