Quick Review Fall Planning Meeting 2010/11/20
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Quick Review
Fall Planning Meeting2010/11/20
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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
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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!
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National Collegiate Geography
ECCC is one of 11 regional conferences
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ECCC Geography
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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
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ECCC Riders
Almost no growth in annual licenses in 2010 Still steady at 22--24% of all collegiate licenses
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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
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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
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Road Starts
Road participation fairly steady Note: One more weekend in 2009
Note: Many weather cancellations in 2007
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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