It’s the team’s victory if you do it right.” “That allows you to save your energy until the final moment when you go into the wind and try to win. “It’s all about drafting, just like NASCAR,” said Guptill. Every racer on the eight-person teams has a specific job to do, she said. Racing tactics are based on managing wind, Dvorzak explained. “It’s my only shot-to break away,” quipped Guptill. “All these racers share the characteristic of being very aggressive racers,” Hufnagle said. They made a happy tableau of lean, taut, flourishing youth. national champion, the youngest in history, and races with Lance Armstrong on Team Radio Shack. ![]() Ben King, of North Garden, is the current U.S. She has raced in every major race in the world. national team, and will race in the women’s Tour de France next year. Andrea Dvorzak, who is married to Hufnagle, is on the U.S.’s top women’s team, Colavita/Sutter Home, as well as the U.S. He was second in the nation at age 17 and ranks ninth in the country now. ![]() A class will design and build a competition-quality bike and the students enrolled will also become licensed cycle mechanics.Īndy Guptill races for the Jamis/Sutter Home team, America’s top team. Nine miles of trails on the school’s expansive property are being cleared to allow mountain biking and a endurance cycling team is training at the school for road races next spring. Miller is developing a cycling program under teacher and dean of the faculty Peter Hufnagle. 17, an occasion when all the school convenes in formal dress, to describe what it takes to achieve true excellence at something. Three of America’s top racing cyclists were at Miller School for the Headmaster’s Thanksgiving Dinner Nov. ![]() Cycling stars Andrea Dvorzak, Ben King, and Andy Guptill.
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