USAFA hosts Front Range Cycling Classic Published April 11, 2014 By Lt. Col. Len Cabrera Cadet Cycling Club officer in-charge U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- The Falcons Cycling Team hosted racers from 13 colleges and 33 amateur and professional teams for the annual Front Range Cycling Classic here last weekend. Races started early Saturday with collegiate team time trials, a four-person event pitting each team against the clock on a 10-mile course, taking riders from the 10th Air Base Wing hospital to the 10th Air Base Wing headquarters building. This year's Classic featured a new 0.7-mile technical criterium course with 10 turns around the 10th Medical Group hospital grounds Saturday. In this mass-start event, riders did as many laps as possible in a designated period of time, 20 to 60-minutes depending on race category. Cadet 3rd Class Caitlin Sullivan won the Women's B criterium while Cadet 1st Class Stefan Zavislan took 15th place in the men's A-race. The team's best results came during Sunday's road races featuring multiple laps of the 13.6-mile loop around the installation along Academy Drive, Parade Loop, Stadium Boulevard and Pine Drive. Sullivan again won the Women's B-race; Cadet 3rd Class Joe Esswein took third in the Men's B-race; Zavislan took fifth in the Men's A-race; and Cadet 2nd Class Jasmine Hansen, a U.S. Military Academy exchange cadet, took fifth in the Women's A race. These riders qualified for the Collegiate Road Cycling National Championships next month. Nearly 130 volunteers helped host over 500 cyclists from around the country.