COLUMBIA, Tn. – Season four of the Tennessee Interscholastic Cycling League kicked off this past weekend with Race #1 at Chickasaw Trace in Columbia, TN. The Marshall County team is the 3-time Tennessee State Champions and hope to make it four in a row this season but as always face some great competition from all over Tennessee.
This season, another Kentucky team joined the Tennessee League, the Paducah-McCracken Composite team made up of riders from the three McCracken County high schools.
The Marshals took the top spot on the podium in three of the eight high school races and placed a rider in first in two middle school races. All together, 12 Marshall County team members made podium appearances after finishing their laps of the muddy 5-mile course.
Audrey Grizzard (2015 JV State Champion), took 1st in the girl’s Varsity race, Jaron Wood (2015 Sophomore State Champion) placed 3rd in the boy’s Varsity race, Bobby Jones (2015 Freshman State Champion) took 1st and Grant Wilson 2nd in the boy’s JV race, McKenzie Tack (2015 Sophomore State Champion) placed 3rd in the girl’s JV race, Kyle McClain claimed the 3rd spot in the boy’s Sophomore race, Alyssa McClain (2015 Freshman State Champion) placed 3rd in the girl’s Freshman race and Jaxon Story placed 1st in the boy’s Freshman race.
In the Middle School division, Presleigh Jennings finished 1st among girls while Landon Utley crossed in 1st place for 6th grade boys. In the 7th grade boy’s race, James Harbison took 3rd.
The fastest 5 mile lap of the day was clocked by Marshall’s Bobby Jones at 20:40.
The boy’s Varsity race was won by Simon Lewis from Williamson County Composite, Emma McVay of Collierville High School won the girl’s JV race, the Sophomore girl’s race was won by Independent rider Eliza Deshon, Sophomore boy’s first place went to Adam Sansone from Collierville high School and Independent rider Peyton Poulos won the Freshman girl’s race.
“All of our riders did a great job and adapted well to the rainy weather and muddy trail conditions”, Coach Steve Beckett said. “We entered the first race of the season with 31 riders and all finished their race which is something they should be proud of. It was a great start to our season, their skills are improving, fitness level and confidence in their riding.”
The next race will be in Knoxville, TN on October 2nd.
| 6th Grade Boys | 7th Grade Boys | Freshman Boys | Freshman Girls |
| 1st Grant Utley | 3rd James Harbison | 1st Jaxon Story | 3rd Alyssa McClain |
| 4th Gunner Boatright | 2nd Clay Austin | ||
| 5th Carter Green | Middle School Girls | 7th Joseph Roberts | Sophomore Boys |
| 7th Jace Story | 1st Presleigh Jennings | 8th Kaleb Cosby | 3rd Kyle McClain |
| 9th Chase Binkley | 5th Olivia Myhand | 10th Carson Denfip | 7th Drew Coleman |
| 12th Kaden Jameson | |||
| Sophomore Girls | JV Boys | Varsity Boys | |
| 4th Grace Boatright | 1st Bobby Jones | Varsity Girls | 3rd Jaron Wood |
| 2nd Grant Wilson | 1st Audrey Grizzard | 6th Bailey Mohler | |
| JV Girls | 13th Alex Parker | 7th Travis Tack | |
| 3rd McKenzie Tack | 9th Colton Adrian | ||
| 10th Isaac Bayer |
