USA Cycling Announces 2024 UCI Cyclocross World Championships Roster
USA Cycling announced today the roster of athletes who will compete at the cyclocross world championships in Tábor, Czech Republic February 3-4.
Selected to compete:
Elite Men
Eric Brunner (Boulder, Colo.)
Scott Funston (Boulder, Colo.; Cervelo / Orange Living)
Curtis White (Delanson, N.Y.; Steve Tilford Foundation Racing)
Elite Women
Katie Clouse (Park City, Utah; Steve Tilford Foundation Racing)
Clara Honsinger (Portland, Ore.; Team S&M CX)
Raylyn Nuss (Lawrence, Kan.; Steve Tilford Foundation Racing)
U23 Men
Marcis Shelton (Mill Valley, Calif.)
Andrew Strohmeyer (Mount Airy, Md.; CXD Trek Bikes)
Jules Van Kempen (Chapel Hill, N.C.; Cervelo / OrangeLiving)
Dylan Zakrajsek (Grand Junction, Colo.)
U23 Women
Mia Aseltine (Littleton, Colo.; Comp Edge Racing)
Ella Brenneman (Gibsonia, Penn.; CXD Trek Bikes)
Keira Bond (Louisville, Colo.; CXD Trek Bikes)
Lizzy Gunsalus (Dudley, Mass.; CCB Racing)
Kaya Musgrave (Littleton, Colo.; Cervelo / OrangeLiving)
Lauren Zoerner (Highlands Ranch, Colo.; Groove Off Road Racing Team)
Junior Men
Henry Coote (Manchester, Mass.; Comp Edge Racing)
Calvin Conaway (Zionsville, Ind.; Ignition Racing)
James Halverson (North Branch, Minn.; Minnesota Junior Cycling)
Miles Mattern (Rochester, N.Y.; CXD Trek Bikes)
Alexander Scopinich-Burgel (Concord, Mass.; New England Devo)
David Thompson (New Canaan, Conn.; AG2R Citroën U19 Team)
Luke Walter (Boulder, Colo.; Boulder Junior Cycling)
Junior Women
Jorja Bond (Louisville, Colo.; Boulder Junior Cycling)
Lidia Cusack (Chevy Chase, Md.; CXD Trek Bikes)
Vida Lopez de San Roman (Sebastopol, Calif.; Bear National Team)
Alyssa Sarkisov (North Potomac, Md.; CXD Trek Bikes)
Alyssa White (Elkins, W.V.; Finkraft Junior Cycling Team)
U23 Men’s National Champion Jack Spranger (Sammamish, Wash.; Bear National Team) was selected to the team but declined his nomination.
Good to see so many Americans going over the pond for worlds 🌈
OhhhKaaay then. First - good to see so many riders being given a chance to ride.. looks like the ‘having medal potential’ part of selection has been sent packing as that can only really apply to Clara and if she’s still trending upwards Katy Clouse. Maybe the junior boys and Lizzy Gunsalas might do well. But... if every country sent riders who had medal potential there would be a field of six in each race. Second. The US is in a similar position to most countries..we go to Europe and get a kicking. Our domestic scene and rider development is way behind Holland and Belgium. It could be Cat Ferguson and Imogen Wolfe medal and they are at the front of a really thriving domestic scene but we’ll lose a lot of those riders to careers/ University or the road and as our Nationals showed - there is literally no elite male or female in the same league as Anna Kay or Cam Mason..TP excepted.. so it is what it is.