• Mountain Biking (HS/MS)

    2024 - 2025
    Head Coach: Steve Smail

Team News

List of 5 news stories.

  • MTB Team Races Raccoon Mountain to finish 2024 season, Weiss claims overall podium spot

    Steve Smail & Amy Dortch, MTB Team Coaches
    The 5th and final race of the mountain bike team’s 2024 season was held at Laurel Point just outside of Chattanooga on the sandy, tech-y and rocky Racoon Mountain trails. For several weeks prior to the final race of the NICA league season, the team had been practicing on progressively more challenging local trails and terrain to prepare for this final race and to add to our season points in both the overall individual and team contests.
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  • Small but Mighty MTB Squad takes on Monteagle Mountain

    Steve Smail & Amy Dortch, MTB Team Head Coaches
    The HS and MS Mountain Bike squads traveled to the St. Andrews Sewanee School on Monteagle Mountain on October 6th for the team’s 4th race of the season. Originally scheduled in the foothills of the mountains in East TN, Hurricane Helene decided that location was not ideal, and the league quickly switched to the trails on the SAS campus.
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  • MTB Team rolls through Lock 4 Race

    Steve Smail, Amy Dortch, MTB Team Coaches
    The USN Mountain Bike team continued its 2-wheeled roll forward at its third 2024 race at Lock 4 trails in Gallatin on Sept. 22nd, marking the midway point of the competitive season. The MS team collectively finished 10th of 26 teams as a result of strong 8th grade performances, while the HS team managed to finish 20th out of 30 teams, even while missing some of its core teammates at this race.
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  • USN Mountain Bikers Pedal through Race #2 in Jackson

    MTB Team Coaches Steve Smail & Amy Dortch
    After a week of HS retreats followed by Labor Day weekend interrupted our usual training, the mountain bike team roared back into action on September 8th on the Bourne Park trails outside of Jackson, TN.
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  • MTB Team Kicks Off Its 2024 Race Season

    Steve Smail & Amy Dortch, MTB Team Head Coaches
    The USN Mountain Bike Team kicked off its 2024 season on August 25th at Chickasaw Trace Trails in Columbia TN, with its first of five races across TN. A familiar course to the team, now in its 12th year, nearly our entire roster of 32 High School and Middle School cyclists took on 1, 2 or 3 challenging 4.2 mile loops in typically hot, dry and dusty conditions for our first NICA/TICL League competition.
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Team Schedule

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MTB Race 1 - August 25, Columbia/Chickasaw Trace Park Trails

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MTB Race #2 - Sept 8, Jackson/Pugh Borne Park Trails

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MTB Race 3 - Sept 22, Gallatin/Lock 4 Park Trails

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MTB Race #4 - Oct 6, SAS/Sewanee

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St. Andrews Sewanee
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MTB Race 5 - Oct. 27, Chattanooga/Raccoon Mountain Park Trails (State Champs)

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