Cycling in the NCAA

Cycling is "the new golf" of America. If you drive your car outside on a Sunday morning, you will most likely see at least one person riding their bike. It is a grueling sport that requires physical fitness, brains, and toughness. Lance Armstrong describes the sport perfectly. He said, "This is not Disneyland, or Hollywood. I'll give you an example: I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else." That describes the sport perfectly. It is such a hard sport, and it deserves NCAA recognition. From this petition, I hope to convince some colleges to upgrade cycling to varsity status to meet the mininum number of instituitions needed for a sport to be part of the NCAA. Thank you for your time, and I hope you will help me in bringing cycling to the NCAA.

12/24 update: 81 signatures. We're making great progress. I've been getting the same questions over and over again so I made a FAQ page. If you or any of your friends have any questions or concerns, read the FAQ page. The link is:

http://maxkaplan.blogspot.com/

12/25 update: 100 signatures at exactly 12:00. Halfway there. Thanks everyone and keep inviting everyone you know!

12/28 update: 183 signatures! 91.5%. Thank you everyone.

I would like to thank:
Colavita U19 Racing team
Nicholas A. Jacobs
Eric Palmer
Everyone who signed this petition
All the Athletic Directors that took some of their time to write back to me
Carmen A. Torres (President of the Puerto Rico Cycling Federation)
Kam Zardouzian(former president of the NCCA)

300 signatures! keep signing even though we already have 300. Thanks!

Max Kaplan