06 DEC 2010
To Whom It May Concern:
The inaugural year of The Racing Kangaroos has been an outstanding year for junior cycling development both on and off the bike. The riders have performed well in all aspects of the team environment. Sure, we have had a few teething problems, which were expected as this is the first time that this development environment has been trialled within junior cycling.
With the 2010 year now finalised, plans are well underway for the 2011 season. There are riders from the 2010 team who have progressed into the mens elite age division and there are 4 riders from the 2010 team who have declined the opportunity again due to other commitments. To keep the interest in junior team cycling, in August an expression of interest calling for riders to apply for The Racing Kangaroos was launched.
We had an overwhelming response to the launch with 96 junior riders sending through their reply. Due to the large number, the talent of the applicants, and having limited places available; to be fair and equitable to all the applicants we have had to manage the selection process differently to the inaugural year. The final phase of the selection process will be attended to by holding a selection weekend in Feburary 2011. The 2011 team should prove to be stronger and even more dedicated than in 2010.
In addition to the male riders, we have had numerous responses from female riders who also wish to ride for The Racing Kangaroos. This will certainly prove to be an exciting time of growth for The Racing Kangaroos.
From our commitment in developing these junior cyclists both on and off the bike and through your assistance we have succeded with the inagural year. A brief of the overall results for the first season were:
Tasmainia:
Three of the first year U/19’s attended the selection week of racing for experience in Tasmania as a lead up to their nationals. All competed well finishing mid bunch in all the races. Angus was absent due to yr12 HSC commitments.
Bathurst:
U15’s:
Hill climb: Harry 1st (10:16.12), Brad 3rd (11:09.22), Nick 7th (11:42.09) and Blake 8th (11:44.08)
Criterium: Harry 3rd, Brad 6th, Nick 7th, Blake 10th
B to B: Harry 1st, Nick 2nd, Brad 4th, and Blake 6th.
U17’s
Hill climb: Tirian 16th (10:57.91), Tom 21st (11:17.44)
Criterium: Tom 7th, Tirian 16th
B to B: Tom 7th. Tirian did not race due to his recovery.
Michael Docker and Jesse Kerrison were selected for the National Talent Identification camp and were in Adelaide.
U19’s
Hill climb: Angus 9th (10:11.56), Josh 14th (10:43.33)
Criterium: Angus raced in Div 1 with a place of 7th, Josh raced in Div 2 with a place of 17th
B to B: Angus had a great result in the 110km challenge placing 6th overall and 1st in the U19’s,
Battle of the Border:
U19’s Championships
TT: Josh 39th (46:58.58), the others SCR
RR: Angus 35th, others DNF
Crit: Angus 5th, others DNF
U17’s
RR: Jesse 1st
Crit: Jesse 16th after crashing out
GC: Jesse 4th
U15’s
RR: Nick 2nd, Blake 6th
Crit: Nick 2nd, Blake 3rd
GC: Blake 4th, Nick 6th
New Caledonia:
The Tour was designed to give our developing riders the opportunity to experience what it is like to train and race overseas and also experience the different foods, cultures and of coarse the language barriers. The tour gives the riders a taste of Europe only 3hrs from Australia. With The Racing Kangaroos popularity amongst the junior riders, we invited a number of female riders and another 4 male riders, to race as a Kangaroo and the management team chaperoned the NSW team in New Caledonia.
General Classification:
1st Jessie Kerrison (RK) Laura Triggs (RK)
2nd Reece Robinson (NSW) Emily Collyer (NSW)
3rd Tom Apthorpe (RK) Sara Spokes (RK)
Sprint Classification KOM Classification
1st Anthony Dubain Jessie Kerrison
2nd Jessie Kerrison Reece Robinson
3rd Reece Robinson Tom Apthorpe
U15’s 25km Road Race:
1st Blake Schuman (RK)
2nd Florian Barket (New/Cal)
3rd Nick Costello (RK)
States Titles – Port Macquarie:
U15’s
The boys did a great job showing that the hard work through the year has paid of with both Brad and Harry selected in the State Team. Now with Nationals only 3 weeks away it will be Brad and Harry racing for NSW and Nick and Blake racing for the Kangaroos. It was great to see how they all worked and produced some great results.
Time Trial: Harry 4th (12:23.33), Brad 5th (12:23.75), Blake 11th (13:14.36) and Nick 13th (13:32.33)
Criterium: Brad 2nd, Nick 5th, Harry 6th, Blake 11th
Road Race: Brad 1st, Harry 3rd, Nick 5th, Blake 13th
U17’s
Tirian has showed some great form to return some very impressive results since his time off the bike due to injury and was unlucky not to earn himself a spot in the State team after being caught in not quite the ideal spot for the finish of the road race
Time Trial: Tirian 3rd (16:00.04), Jesse 6th (16:24.70), Tom 30th (18:15.30) Mick 60th (20:43.02)
Criterium: Jesse 2nd, Tirian 5th Tom and Michael unfortunately didn’t make the final
Road Race: Jesse 2nd, Tirian 8th, Tom 12th, Mick DNF
Junior National Titles:
U15’s
Time Trial: Harry 11th, Brad 16th, Nick 36th, Blake 47th
Road Race: Brad 1st, Harry 3rd, Nick 5th, Blake 35th
Criterium: Harry 2nd, Nick 8th, Brad 18th, Blake DNF
U17’s
Time Trial: Tirian 6th, Jesse 16th
Road Race: Tirian 9th, Jesse 43rd
Criterium: Jesse 9th, Tirian 12th
New Zealand – Yunca Tour
This tour was another outstanding success for international cycling, not only for The Racing Kangaroos, but for junior Australian cycling in general. Cycling Southland was extremly hospitatable and this tour will be a compulsory event for all of The Racing Kangaroos in years to come.
U15’s
TT: Brad 3rd, Harry 9th, Nick 14th, Blake 16th
RR: Brad 1st, Harry 8th, Nick 12th, Blake 14th
Criterium: Brad 4th, Harry 11th, Nick 13th, Blake 17th
RR: Brad 4th, Harry 11th, Nick 14th, Blake 17th
RR: Brad 4th, Harry 10th, Nick 11th, Blake 19th
U19’s
TT: Josh 19th, Luke 23rd
RR: Josh: 19th, Luke 25th
Criterium: Josh 15th, Luke 23rd
RR: Josh 12th, Luke 22nd
RR: Luke 16th, Josh DNF
An outstanding NSW rider, Jack Edwards was invited to ride as a Kangaroo in the Yunca Tour and finished 1st on GC – winning the tour. He has applied for The Racing Kangaroos in 2011.
Early in 2011 a new business plan and prospectus will be provided to all of our sponsors to build on the foundation that has already been created. The Racing Kangaroos hope to better these results in the 2011 season.
The Racing Kangaroos.
To Whom It May Concern:
The inaugural year of The Racing Kangaroos has been an outstanding year for junior cycling development both on and off the bike. The riders have performed well in all aspects of the team environment. Sure, we have had a few teething problems, which were expected as this is the first time that this development environment has been trialled within junior cycling.
With the 2010 year now finalised, plans are well underway for the 2011 season. There are riders from the 2010 team who have progressed into the mens elite age division and there are 4 riders from the 2010 team who have declined the opportunity again due to other commitments. To keep the interest in junior team cycling, in August an expression of interest calling for riders to apply for The Racing Kangaroos was launched.
We had an overwhelming response to the launch with 96 junior riders sending through their reply. Due to the large number, the talent of the applicants, and having limited places available; to be fair and equitable to all the applicants we have had to manage the selection process differently to the inaugural year. The final phase of the selection process will be attended to by holding a selection weekend in Feburary 2011. The 2011 team should prove to be stronger and even more dedicated than in 2010.
In addition to the male riders, we have had numerous responses from female riders who also wish to ride for The Racing Kangaroos. This will certainly prove to be an exciting time of growth for The Racing Kangaroos.
From our commitment in developing these junior cyclists both on and off the bike and through your assistance we have succeded with the inagural year. A brief of the overall results for the first season were:
Tasmainia:
Three of the first year U/19’s attended the selection week of racing for experience in Tasmania as a lead up to their nationals. All competed well finishing mid bunch in all the races. Angus was absent due to yr12 HSC commitments.
Bathurst:
U15’s:
Hill climb: Harry 1st (10:16.12), Brad 3rd (11:09.22), Nick 7th (11:42.09) and Blake 8th (11:44.08)
Criterium: Harry 3rd, Brad 6th, Nick 7th, Blake 10th
B to B: Harry 1st, Nick 2nd, Brad 4th, and Blake 6th.
U17’s
Hill climb: Tirian 16th (10:57.91), Tom 21st (11:17.44)
Criterium: Tom 7th, Tirian 16th
B to B: Tom 7th. Tirian did not race due to his recovery.
Michael Docker and Jesse Kerrison were selected for the National Talent Identification camp and were in Adelaide.
U19’s
Hill climb: Angus 9th (10:11.56), Josh 14th (10:43.33)
Criterium: Angus raced in Div 1 with a place of 7th, Josh raced in Div 2 with a place of 17th
B to B: Angus had a great result in the 110km challenge placing 6th overall and 1st in the U19’s,
Battle of the Border:
U19’s Championships
TT: Josh 39th (46:58.58), the others SCR
RR: Angus 35th, others DNF
Crit: Angus 5th, others DNF
U17’s
RR: Jesse 1st
Crit: Jesse 16th after crashing out
GC: Jesse 4th
U15’s
RR: Nick 2nd, Blake 6th
Crit: Nick 2nd, Blake 3rd
GC: Blake 4th, Nick 6th
New Caledonia:
The Tour was designed to give our developing riders the opportunity to experience what it is like to train and race overseas and also experience the different foods, cultures and of coarse the language barriers. The tour gives the riders a taste of Europe only 3hrs from Australia. With The Racing Kangaroos popularity amongst the junior riders, we invited a number of female riders and another 4 male riders, to race as a Kangaroo and the management team chaperoned the NSW team in New Caledonia.
General Classification:
1st Jessie Kerrison (RK) Laura Triggs (RK)
2nd Reece Robinson (NSW) Emily Collyer (NSW)
3rd Tom Apthorpe (RK) Sara Spokes (RK)
Sprint Classification KOM Classification
1st Anthony Dubain Jessie Kerrison
2nd Jessie Kerrison Reece Robinson
3rd Reece Robinson Tom Apthorpe
U15’s 25km Road Race:
1st Blake Schuman (RK)
2nd Florian Barket (New/Cal)
3rd Nick Costello (RK)
States Titles – Port Macquarie:
U15’s
The boys did a great job showing that the hard work through the year has paid of with both Brad and Harry selected in the State Team. Now with Nationals only 3 weeks away it will be Brad and Harry racing for NSW and Nick and Blake racing for the Kangaroos. It was great to see how they all worked and produced some great results.
Time Trial: Harry 4th (12:23.33), Brad 5th (12:23.75), Blake 11th (13:14.36) and Nick 13th (13:32.33)
Criterium: Brad 2nd, Nick 5th, Harry 6th, Blake 11th
Road Race: Brad 1st, Harry 3rd, Nick 5th, Blake 13th
U17’s
Tirian has showed some great form to return some very impressive results since his time off the bike due to injury and was unlucky not to earn himself a spot in the State team after being caught in not quite the ideal spot for the finish of the road race
Time Trial: Tirian 3rd (16:00.04), Jesse 6th (16:24.70), Tom 30th (18:15.30) Mick 60th (20:43.02)
Criterium: Jesse 2nd, Tirian 5th Tom and Michael unfortunately didn’t make the final
Road Race: Jesse 2nd, Tirian 8th, Tom 12th, Mick DNF
Junior National Titles:
U15’s
Time Trial: Harry 11th, Brad 16th, Nick 36th, Blake 47th
Road Race: Brad 1st, Harry 3rd, Nick 5th, Blake 35th
Criterium: Harry 2nd, Nick 8th, Brad 18th, Blake DNF
U17’s
Time Trial: Tirian 6th, Jesse 16th
Road Race: Tirian 9th, Jesse 43rd
Criterium: Jesse 9th, Tirian 12th
New Zealand – Yunca Tour
This tour was another outstanding success for international cycling, not only for The Racing Kangaroos, but for junior Australian cycling in general. Cycling Southland was extremly hospitatable and this tour will be a compulsory event for all of The Racing Kangaroos in years to come.
U15’s
TT: Brad 3rd, Harry 9th, Nick 14th, Blake 16th
RR: Brad 1st, Harry 8th, Nick 12th, Blake 14th
Criterium: Brad 4th, Harry 11th, Nick 13th, Blake 17th
RR: Brad 4th, Harry 11th, Nick 14th, Blake 17th
RR: Brad 4th, Harry 10th, Nick 11th, Blake 19th
U19’s
TT: Josh 19th, Luke 23rd
RR: Josh: 19th, Luke 25th
Criterium: Josh 15th, Luke 23rd
RR: Josh 12th, Luke 22nd
RR: Luke 16th, Josh DNF
An outstanding NSW rider, Jack Edwards was invited to ride as a Kangaroo in the Yunca Tour and finished 1st on GC – winning the tour. He has applied for The Racing Kangaroos in 2011.
Early in 2011 a new business plan and prospectus will be provided to all of our sponsors to build on the foundation that has already been created. The Racing Kangaroos hope to better these results in the 2011 season.
The Racing Kangaroos.
