Our very own Chris Best started 2024 as the new Utah League Director taking over from Dallen Atack. You can read his bio below – congratulations Chris, we are so excited for your new career! CHRIS BEST – LEAGUE DIRECTOR Chris started mountain biking back in grade school when the only option you had was […]
Congratulations to Nic Sims for being named the 2022 NICA Legacy Award recipient! With 6 years of coaching in the Utah High School Mountain Biking league under his belt, Nic is a true cycling enthusiast who loves to ride anything with two wheels. Having spent over 30 years in the industry, from working in bike shops to […]
Last year coach Nic Sims swept the freshman race at Soldier Hollow where Box Elder Composite Mountain Bike Team Brody completed his race for the first time thanks to Coach Nic. Read their story below from Mountain Bike Action. https://mbaction.com/one-race-with-two-winners-high-school-league-racing-from-a-coach-and-athletes-perspective/?fbclid=IwAR240jGBeitVOU54PBDgU3Lf9L_9_-vbY2ZVjZZBMIeVX2PJbV14mNoVqKg
Thanks to all the coaches and girls who joined us on our Tour De Smoothies. Special thanks to GRiT ambassador’s Molly-Mae Sims from Park City High School Team and Emma Miller from North Summit Mountain Bike Team. Huge thanks to captain Ben Yaeger for capturing the day and to Clockwork Cafe for providing smoothies. We […]
Coach Profile: Paul TerryWhen I was 4 all my brothers could ride a bike and I couldn’t. So one day I grabbed a bike and climbed up on an old yellow bucket to get on it. I kept trying for a couple of hours until I could ride it. When my brothers got home, they […]
I really didn’t get into riding until I was in my mid 20’s when I met my husband Nic Sims, also a PCHS coach. I remember when we first met and him telling me how much his bike was worth and it was more expensive than my car, I thought he was crazy. When we […]
My first memory of riding bike was around the age of 7. My 3 brothers and I would have to fight over who got to ride the one bike we had. I did lots of running in high school and college (Wish there was a MTB team when I was in high school back in […]
What is your earliest memory of riding a bike?The arc of my cycling life goes back to the classic days of the early years of BMX. Taking cast-off moto parts and fitting to old Schwinn Stingrays and jumping anything you could find. Things were pretty primitive then but for sure stoked my love of tinkering […]
A few gems in here! EWR race pics were around 1998 when I was racing XC and DS in JrX at about 15 yrs old. Sobe/Cannondale pics were racing pro dh in 2007/2008 and the group start pic is 1991. I’m the little dude in the yellow jersey lining up at 8 yrs old to […]
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