1. Quick Review Fall Planning Meeting 2010/11/20

2. 2/16 The Eastern Conference The Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference (ECCC) coordinates and oversees collegiate cycling races and teams in northeast US  Colleges & universities in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine  Currently supports track, mountain bike, cyclocross, and road racing seasons

3. 3/16 Student Athletes All ECCC racers are full time students  Undergraduate or graduate  Nearly all teams are club sports of their institutions All events are organized by volunteer, student race promoters and their collegiate teams  These are the people that make it happen!

4. 4/16 National Collegiate Geography ECCC is one of 11 regional conferences

5. 5/16 ECCC Geography

6. 6/16 ECCC Clubs Still at 69 teams in ECCC, same as 2009  This number pretty steady for several years now  Lost a good number of small but notable teams  Picked up a bunch of other very small teams

7. 7/16 ECCC Riders Almost no growth in annual licenses in 2010  Still steady at 22--24% of all collegiate licenses

8. 8/16 General 2010 Changes February meeting definitely smaller, but remains very useful for MTB, Cyclocross focus  Few road teams attended; not sure that's a problem Non-profit incorporation Conference surcharge ($1/mass, gravity start)  Not operating at a (personal) loss anymore Should bank ~$3000  General expenses low, MTB self sufficient  Detailed statement over the holidays

9. 9/16 Road 2010 Combined D1/D2 team rankings: Still awesome!  Certain team not as awesome as their swagger? Much more consistent race day schedules Aero restrictions quietly passed into non-issue ECCC News Network Road promoter's guide Women's category changes! – Per-event average of 75, max 100, min 38

10. 10/16 Road Starts Road participation fairly steady  Note: One more weekend in 2009  Note: Many weather cancellations in 2007

11. 11/16 MTB 2010 Super D, ClusterHuck, Team Relay all returned  Super D not as popular as pure gravity events  Team Relay needs evangelizing, lower costs, but is super well received by teams that do participate Intro Clinics struggled due to coach availability  Still very popular & successful though Continued streak of excellent alumni scoring Lift ticket fees self-controlled by promoters Slalom run pretty well, still extremely long

12. 12/16 MTB Starts MTB participation grew this year  Haven't previously tracked the same amount of data  But two races this year broke the attendance record UNH and UVM just under 200 unique riders 1300 starts over 5 weekends in 2010 Essentially a little less than half as big as road Gravity is super healthy  More consistent, average as large as cross country Women's MTB is high quality, low numbers

13. 13/16 Cyclocross 2010 Seems smaller, but have to wait for numbers  Slightly difficult to compare seasons at this point Definite different focus in scheduling  Fewer very high profile, expensive events  Several more collegiate promoted events Seem to do ok by incorporating non-collegiate fields Sounds like nationals will have several simple schedule adjustments to make it easier

14. 14/16 Track 2010 Track going nowhere without coordinator to make a real season happen  Coordinating schedule, lining up race promoters  Timely season standings  Evangelizing Faces intrinsic challenges schedule-wise  Bad positioning re. summer breaks, start of school But it seems like riders are out there

15. 15/16 2010 General Recap Joe's informal take:  Basically held steady in many respects  But on a much more sustainable, consistent basis  Huge improvements in women's cycling

16. 16/16 End Questions/comments:  Joe Kopena jkopena@usacycling.org