A formal collaboration between the Scholars Inn Bakehouse cycling team and Team Panther presented by Competitive Cyclist is in process. The exact nature of the program, the details, kits and naming is still in discussion but the leadership has agreed in principle regarding the value of the merger and the benefits to each team and the cycling community.
Joining forces with the successful Panther program, in its 5th year allows the current Scholars Inn Bakehouse program to be a true feeder team for this elite squad. Currently, the Scholars Inn Bakehouse program will remain relatively unchanged. The program will continue to be one of the Midwest’s premier cycling programs for USA Cycling Categories 2 through 5 as well as the development team for the Elite program. Riders in the beginning categories will be part of one of the region’s top programs and upper category racers will have the opportunity to be called up and compete with the elite riders at specified events. Overall, this creates a complete competitive cycling platform for the new Scholars Inn program. Scholars Inn Cycling will continue to welcome all local racers who want to be part of the program.
Pre-season Elite team roster for 2013:
Kirk Albers, 43 Columbus, OH
Jonathan Atwell, 31 Bloomington, IN
Andrew Clarke, 42 Medina, OH
Johnathan Freter, 20 Columbus, OH
Ryan Knapp, 28 Bloomington, IN
Paul Martin, 40 North Royalton, OH
Jeff Pendlebury, 25 Fredericksburg, OH
Andrew Seitz, 26 Pittsburgh, PA
Rob Thompson, 30 Lakewood, OH
Martin Vecchio, 27 Detroit, MI
Others may be added to this or ‘called up’ to compete with the Elite squad at key events.
Kirk Albers, Andy Clarke, Ryan Knapp, Andy Seitz and Paul Martin are returning from the 2012 Panther team. The elite program is very pleased to add Jonathan Atwell from the United Healthcare of GA/706 Project Team and the Scholars Inn Bakehouse team, Johnathan Freter and Jeff Pendlebury from the Cleveland Clinic/RGF Team, Rob Thompson from Team Spin and Martin Vecchio from Lathrup Industries/Giant.
For more information on the Scholars Inn Bakehouse team visit http://www.scholarsinncycling.org/.
Look for an update and more details in the near future on these websites. In the interim, please direct questions to Tom Saccone at sacconetom@yahoo.com or call 812-320-6355.
14 comments:
Very proud to join forces with such an elite program. It is a great opportunity for up and coming riders to remain associated with a Bloomington squad on a very high level. I hope this inspires Bloomington to continue to establish itself as one of the most respected cycling communities in the country.
isn't rj stuart on this team?
Scholars Inn Bakehouse saved me from a dark dark world.. Tom Saccone is the man!
So is panther now gonna ship Lyle's granola fo free?
Stuart jumped ship after last season had already begun. You can't expect them to let him back on that easily?
Sounds like Stuart doesn't like roadhouse and wants to come back...
-CHIPO
The roster is on there dumbfucks. Stewart is on roadhouse which you would know if you had any bloomington cycling credibility.
Rumor has it that pigs were spotted flying over Bloomington.
roster is preliminary
Feel bad for all the current SIB riders who's race reimbursement is about to be slashed to foot the bill for the Panther guys.
Bye bye cat3 squad
WHAT? No more free granola?
Are they actually going to have riders move up? What benefits will the cat 3s get?
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