MADISON, Wisc. - This year's host, Trek Bicycles, welcomed 22 Varsity programs from across the country to their headquarters in Waterloo, Wisconsin, for the 2025 USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships. CMU riders acclimated to Wisconsin weather and challenging road conditions in hopes of being crowned this year's National Champions while defending their title.CMU had a 22point lead over the Marian Knights going into Road Nationals. The Mavericks have dominated the Road discipline over the past 3 years and look to make it a 4th consecutive year lead by upperclassmen Olivia Cummins, Kate Seiler, Luke Elphingstone and Vaughn Veenendaal.
 

Riders started the race weekend with a 24-kilometer Team Time Trial on Friday.
In the Varsity Women's race, the lady mavericks team composed of Cassidy Hickey, Olivia Cummins, Kate Seiler and Ella Sabo stopped the clock at 32:37min which was 11 seconds faster than women from Marian University. 

In the Varsity Men's race, Milligan University was the team on top with a time of 27:51min to take the National Championship title. The CMU men finished 5^th in a time of 28:40min.
After day one CMU was ranked 3^rd with 138 points trailing Marian by 6 points

2^nd Day Road Race 

On Saturday, riders met at Trek's headquarters in Waterloo for the road race. The first race of the day was the Varsity Women, who completed five laps of the 13.1-mile rolling course. After the first 2 laps of virgurous attacks a group of 10 riders went of the front leaving the pack behind. CMU was the only team who had 3 riders in the group of the day, which included Ella Sabo, Cassidy Hickey and Samantha Scott. With two laps to go Jette Aelken from SCAD Savannah attacked out of the group and established a lead of up to 2:30min. Due to different interests in the chase group no organized chase got established leaving the group to sprint for 2^nd place. After a phenomenal lead out by Samantha Scott(10^th place), Cassidy Hickey and Ella Sabo secured 2^nd and 3^rd place. This performance secured top points in the team competition for the Women's road race.

 

Next up where the Varsity Men for seven intense laps. The race started fast, with multiple teams trying to establish a break in the opening laps, averaging over 28 mph. With four laps to go, the field shrunk to about half, and a group of seven broke away, and then slimmed to three. The CMU men missed the break and tried their hardest to make things happen but couldn't bring back the break that would fight for the win. Manolo Wrolich form Lee's-McRae College secured the national title, with Henry Nelson from Fort Lewis College grabbing silver and Luke Arens Marian University earning bronze. Best CMU rider was Luke Elphingstone in 9^th followed by Vaughn Veenendaal in 17^th.
The men only managed to earn 6^th place team points for the Road Omnium. After day 2 Marian lead the overall standings with 288 points followed by CMU 273 points and Milligan with 260 points.