It’s beginning to look a lot like… 🚵 MTB Season
Team jerseys and kits are available until June 18
For the 2024 season, we are once again partnering with Borah, a Wisconsin based company, to provide our team jerseys and kits. New in 2024 are trail style shorts and team jackets! Our initial team store is open now until June 18. Borah anticipates we will receive our orders about 4 weeks after our store closes. We will open the store again in July AFTER the season starts for another round of ordering. If you want to ensure your athlete receives their gear before our first race, please consider ordering now!
PreseaSon schedule
The following events are on the books prior to our season starting. In an attempt to ensure people have installed sportsYou, I am purposefully omitting time and place from this post. For full details, please register for our teams on sportsYou to see our team calendars.
Bike Rodeo - Wed June 26 (we will have some local bike shop people there to inspect bikes, make sure helmets fit, etc and make sure people are ready for the upcoming season)
Preseason Ride - Thur June 27
First Practice - Tues July 2 (First time riders only - Middleton/Waunakee; Returning riders only - Mount Horeb)
Rider registration IS open for the 2024 seasON
Driftless - 2023
Student athlete registration for our Driftless teams is open for all riders who will be starting grades 6-12 in the fall. Click the button below and the follow the instructions provided. Reach out at info@driftlessmtb.org if you have questions or problems with registration.
Registration is simple:
Sign up for your team + Blackhawk membership.
Register with Wisconsin NICA in Pitzone.
Join sportsYou for all team communication this 2024 season.
Click the ‘Register Now’ button to get started!
Reminder to coaches: make sure you are ride ready
Coach registration opened in Pitzone on March 1. Returning coaches should have received an invitation to register. Anyone who expressed interest in coaching in the Coach’s survey or was a coach last year should have received an invitation. If you are interested in joining Driftless as a coach this year and need a Pitzone invitation, then please contact info@driftlessmtb.org.
Please take some time to ensure all of your requirements are met for the 2024 season NOW rather than trying to do it once the season starts.
Sign up for CPR/First Aid Courses
Coaches currently at or planning to level up to Level 2 or 3 need to take a NICA authorized CPR and First Aid Training course every 2 years. These courses happen in the spring. Signing up for courses becomes increasingly difficult the longer you wait, so it is best to sign up early. There is an online portion you do on your own ahead of the in person training course.
The following courses are still open for registration in the Madison area. Each of these fulfill BOTH the First Aid and CPR requirements for NICA. These are likely the only courses that will be available in the Madison area this spring.
June 15 10:00 am - 3:00 pm @ Blackhawk (taught by our own Andrea Horne) Note: this course says it is at Blue Mound State Park, but I have been told by Andrea that it is actually being taught at Blackhawk
There are additional courses throughout the state of WI if you want to take a course, but none of the above dates work for you. Check out AdventureMed's website and search for WI to find a course that fits your needs.
Sign up for OTB 101 (on the bike 101)
This is a class recommended for all coaches to understand the NICA method and subjects taught during practices. Coaches currently at or planning to level up to Level 2 or 3 must take an OTB 101 class. There are a number of dates and venues around Wisconsin that currently have openings, but they are filling fast. Our very own coach Dirk Horne will be teaching two of them this spring at Blackhawk.
The remaining date in the area is Sunday, June 16. There are several other choices available in the area if those dates don’t work for you. Click on the button below to sign up for the Madison area (or another) course.
