2023 Season Event Schedule
We offer a wide variety of programing throughout our inaugural 2023 season. GRiT, Adventure, Race and Team Trail Corp activities at Events are all included in your registration through Pit Zone.
We offer a wide variety of programing throughout our inaugural 2023 season. GRiT, Adventure, Race and Team Trail Corp activities at Events are all included in your registration through Pit Zone.
Plan a day or two of trail work with your team. Get together in the region with other squads. Do a little trimming. Be part of a trail organization’s build project. Knock out some of your TTC hour requirements in the process. And no matter what, get in a ride too! — That first roll you take down the trail that you just improved is a great feeling.
Teen Trail Corps weekend is an opportunity to give back to the local trails you love and ride. A few hours of trail maintenance makes a huge impact in our state and county parks. This also allows us and the community to continue to access and enjoy our local trails. Our goal is for every team to log at least 1 hour of trail work on TTC Weekend.Awards and recognition to teams who meet or exceed 85% of student-athlete participation on TTC Weekend. Reach out to the local park manager or volunteer coordinator to set up a trail maintenance project. It can be a simple trimming back overgrowth on the trails.
Not sure who to connect with? Email maria@delawaremtb.org and we will connect you! Head Coaches/Team Directors log Teen Trail Corps hours in PitZone.
A weekend to celebrate Teen Trail Corps and contribute to trail projects across the state Oct 7-8.
Plan a day or two of trail work with your team. Get together in the region with other squads. Do a little trimming. Be part of a trail organization’s build project. Knock out some of your TTC hour requirements in the process. And no matter what, get in a ride too! — That first roll you take down the trail that you just improved is a great feeling.
Teen Trail Corps weekend is an opportunity to give back to the local trails you love and ride. A few hours of trail maintenance makes a huge impact in our state and county parks. This also allows us and the community to continue to access and enjoy our local trails. Our goal is for every team to log at least 1 hour of trail work on TTC Weekend.Awards and recognition to teams who meet or exceed 85% of student-athlete participation on TTC Weekend. Reach out to the local park manager or volunteer coordinator to set up a trail maintenance project. It can be a simple trimming back overgrowth on the trails.
Not sure who to connect with? Email maria@delawaremtb.org and we will connect you! Head Coaches/Team Directors log Teen Trail Corps hours in PitZone.
A weekend to celebrate Teen Trail Corps and contribute to trail projects across the state Oct 7-8.
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Join us on November 10-12, 2023, as we gather at the beautiful Fair Hill Natural Resources Area, Maryland, for a extraordinary celebration of youth mountain biking. NICA along with 11 Leagues proudly present our first ever regional championships and youth mountain biking festival, bringing together our programs from across the eastern seaboard.
Email: glenn@dcbikeacademy.org
The DC Bike Academy is a Youth-Centered, Community-Based, Full-Service Bicycle Workshop, that helps young people discover the potential to transform themselves and their communities through the power of bikes.
Event day would not be possible without the incredible work of our volunteers! It takes a “village” to put on quality youth mountain bike events. Many parents and cycling enthusiasts find that getting involved with race production is a fun and rewarding experience. This is your opportunity to be a part of the middle and high school cycling movement in Delaware! We are always looking for enthusiastic and dedicated people to help with a variety of tasks necessary to the promotion of our programs.
Our inaugural season kicks off at the super secret mythical private estate of Granogue. This event will be a celebration of FUN, INCLUSIVITY, EQUITY, RESPECT, & COMMUNITY! We will have a scavenger hunt, skills zone, games, racing, riding with a heavy dose of stoke and radness.
You have a keen eye for risk management and safety always comes first. You paid attention to geography in school and on trips you use a real map. The Course Manager creates course routes for competitive and non-competitive events, and manages all aspects of course marshal points and course marking locations.
The Chief Course Marshal is responsible for incident response on the event course. This position trains and oversees Course Marshal volunteers and coordinates with them during the event. The Chief Course Marshal works with the Event Director, Medical Coordinator and Chief Course Setter to assess event venues, identify emergency access and course marshal points.
This season, we’ll be hitting Fair Hill’s trails cross-country style, as we head just south of the Mason Dixon line to Elkton, MD. One of PICL’s most versatile venues, Fair Hill was once owned by the du Pont family.
At nearly 6,000 acres, this park is host to some world-class horse facilities and steeped in history. The old-growth forests and scenic pastures make for a great race venue. Riders will be treated with fun, twisty single track separated by practice fields used by Olympic equestrians. This setting makes for some amazing adventure riding and racing, so try one, try the other, or try both.
The Pit Zone is an invitation only registration system. When your coach invites you to register with the team you will receive an invitation email from the NICA Pit Zone.
Due to the inherent risks in Mountain Biking, the NICA Coach Licensing Program has high standards for first aid training. First aid training requirements vary by Coach License Level. Click the button below for a list of upcoming NICA approved first aid and CPR classes.
No, this doesn’t mean over-the bars. On-The-Bike 101 is the first in a series of progressive skills drills for NICA coaches. You must be registered as a coach in PitZone to participate. OTB 101 and 201 is required for level 2 and 3 coaches certification.
The Trailhead is a place for stories, pro-tips, resources, and more. Much of the content you’re accustomed to seeing in the monthly NICA coaches news will now be available at The Trailhead, with the goal that it exists as a signpost: a place to go to make it easier to navigate and find the coach content you need – (see what we did there?)
Where is all began. DDD started in 2019 with the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Cycling League and caught the NICA mountain biking bug. Moving back home to DE for 2023! Team practices take place twice a week in White Clay/Middle Run, Fair Hill, Lums Pond and Brandywine State Park.
Founded by Jim and Lori Martin in Lewes Delaware. Catch them at Cape Henlopen State park and practicing with the Delaware Dirt Destroyers.
UrbanPromise was founded in 1998 to seek a full life for the students in our communities. Most recently five student athletes were awarded The Trek Bicycle Pathfinders Scholarship to help bring greater diversity, equity, and inclusion to youth mountain biking by providing people of color with the bikes, gear, and resources they need to overcome historical barriers to the sport.
Email carolyn.keefe@urbanpromise.org
Email: wilburn.laura@gmail.com
Urban Bike Project is a non-profit community bike shop bringing the joys of bicycling to Wilmington residents, both youth and adults.
Events and Marketing Director/Founder
scotty@delawaremtb.org
Popping wheelies and jumping over friends at age 6, it’s no wonder Scotty ended up with a career centered on cycling. An ice hockey injury in his early 20s led to him turning back to bikes to stay fit, and before you knew it, he caught the mountain biking bug and was volunteering to organize and promote local events. He then spent three years as the co-race director and social media manager for Circus Bear Productions, producing the three highest attended races in the Mid-Atlantic Super Series.
He’s been coaching since 2019 and that rewarding experience led him to bring NICA’s core values to Delaware. When he’s not racing mountain bikes, cyclocross, or annoying his 16-year old daughter, he works part-time for Trek.
Operations Manager
steven@delawaremtb.org
From an early age Steven has enjoyed the freedom two wheels has to offer. From riding around the neighborhood till the lights came on to the 30+ mile rides in the woods. Riding a bike has brought Steven lots of joy that he wants to give back to the younger generation. When Scotty told him about NICA he couldn’t say no to becoming a coach. Once he heard about starting a league here in Delaware it was a no brainer that he had to be involved. #morekidsonbikes
Registration Manager
sofia@delawaremtb.org
Sofia is no stranger to being on two wheels, having grown up biking around her hometown of Goleta, CA . A Track & Field athlete in high school and in college, upon graduation she was looking for a new kind of adventure. She started tinkering with and restoring bikes, then working at Trek both on the sales floor and in the back of shop. There she was introduced to all sorts of riding disciplines including mountain biking, and was immediately hooked. She is super stoked to be a part of the Delaware NICA initiative and hopes to expand the opportunities for mountain biking fun to the community’s kiddos
Medical Coordinator
lori@delawaremtb.org
Lori has a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and has been working as an RN for 26 years. She is certified in Obstetrics and in Pediatrics.
Five years ago, Lori joined a ladies trail ride on a borrowed mountain bike, and has been enjoying all types of riding since, including road, cyclocross, gravel, and mountain biking! Lori descibes herself as “not the fastest or most technical rider”, but she loves getting out in nature and just having fun. Riding with her husband and daughter with NICA just makes it better. She is planning to be an example for coaches and student athletes, that anyone can have fun riding a bike!!
Volunteer Coordinator
vicky@delawaremtb.org
Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan till she was 15, Vicky’s first introduction to mountain biking in her late 20s had opened her eyes to a world she never realized existed. Even though it was only a leisure activity for a couple of years, it had made a lasting impression. During the last few years, Vicky has re-found her passion for the trails just like all of the others here…….but via running. She is an avid ultra-marathon runner and is currently on a quest of completing a marathon in all 50 states. She is also the founder of a local all-women trail running group encouraging and empowering fellow female runners. So when the opportunity presented itself to be involved with NICA, it was a no-brainer given the similar purpose NICA provides our local community, and also particularly because this is exactly the type of supportive community she’d like her own pre-teen daughter to get to know.
League Director and Founder
maria@delawaremtb.org
Maria has a Masters in Sociology from UCLA and a Bachelors in Political Science from Haverford College, but perhaps even more impressive is her cycling background. Maria worked at the Cadence Cycling Foundation, a non-profit working with Philadelphia and Wilmington schools to help kids develop important life-skills through the sport of cycling. Maria is a former Trek Women’s Advocate and seeks to inspire women to pursue their goals on and off the bike. In her spare time, Maria races Mountain Bikes and Cyclocross in the mid-Atlantic Region and works alongside her husband at GreshFit, a performance bike fitting and training studio, located in West Chester, PA.
Blue Mountain Resort offers up an amazing backdrop in the Poconos for a weekend of Racing and Adventuring. Many members of our PICL community are also familiar with Blue Mountain as a favorite winter ski destination and as PA’s largest downhill mountain bike park.
We’ll be adding to the bike fun at Blue with an exciting, fast cross-country course that will provide no shortage of fantastic spectating and parties in the woods. Blue also offers plenty of on-site, non-NICA Adventure options for nature and thrill-seekers, alike. Join us at our newest PICL favorite, Blue Mountain!
