BOONE — Appalachian State University’s cycling team won the Atlantic Coast Cycling Conference’s Division II “Triple Crown” for the first time in school history after winning championships in three different racing seasons: mountain, cyclocross and road racing.

With the 2008 ACCC Road Championship, Appalachian has now won three straight ACCC Division II championships in road season and five overall. Previous year wins were 2001, 2002, 2006 and 2007.

Caption: Members of the 2007-08 cycling team, which won the Atlantic Coast Cycling Conference’s “Triple Crown” for the first time in school history at Appalachian State University. (Photo by university photographer Marie Freeman)

Seniors Michael Wilson and David Forkner placed first and second overall in the final conference standings for road season. This is the first time in school history that two Appalachian riders stood on the winner’s podium.

Next year, Appalachian will host an ACCC cyclocross race, two ACCC mountain bike races including the ACCC conference championships, and an ACCC road race in the spring.

Appalachian is one of 17 schools in ACCC’s Division II. Details about next year’s season can be found at www.appstatecycling.com and www.appstatecycling.blogspot.com.

Anyone interested in potential sponsorship of the team should contact team president Dan Wendover at appstatecycling@yahoo.com.

The cycling team is one of 20 club sports at the university. Half of them compete at the national or regional level.

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