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Meet Phoenix rider Tabitha Sherwood, page 4

The Black Key Bulls are more than a cycling team, they’re a family, page 9

Phi Delta’s Rob Lee is in it to win it, page 10

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TABLE OF CONTENTS SKI HAS FUN ON AND OFF THE TRACK, PAGE 3

PHOENIX’S TABITHA SHERWOOD NEVER SETTLES, PAGE 4

INDEPENDENT COUNCIL’S FIRST LITTLE 500, PAGE 6

THE BLACK KEY BULLS IS MORE THAN A CYCLING TEAM, PAGE 9

IT’S PHI DELTA’S ROB LEE’S LAST SHOT AT THE GOLD, PAGE 10

THE LITTLE 500 FOLD-UP GUIDE, PAGE 12

Spring Series recaps WOMEN’S

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Theta leads pack in series BKB hold off Cutters, Beta

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Theta Cycling had to have a disastrous final day of Spring Series to lose its lead. But that didn’t happen. Instead, the team took fifth place in the final event, Team Pursuit, to take the crown.

Theta’s Abby Rogers said it’s exciting to be on top, but the real test is yet to come.

“For us, it is 100 percent a team thing,” she said. “Yes, some of the events are individual, but the race itself, where it really counts, is a year-round team effort — on and off the bike.”

Theta took a commanding lead after placing three riders in the top eight of Individual Time Trials. Liz Lieberman was ITTs Champion, followed by rookie Evelyn Malcomb in fourth and Rogers in eighth.

Lieberman then swept the first two series events with a win in Miss -N-Outs.

Both Lieberman and Rogers are veterans, while Malcomb and the team’s fourth rider, Maddie Lambert, are competing for the first time.

“Evelyn and Maddie both have been so influential in our success thus far,” Rogers said.

“This comes from our team dynamic and the fact that they both hold themselves to standards higher than that of many other rookies and

The Black Key Bulls’ gameplan was simple.

Repeat as Spring Series champions, then repeat as Little 500 champions.

Heading into race day, the defending race winner is halfway there. It overcame a 12-point deficit in Team Pursuit to win the Spring Series title over second place Beta Theta Pi. “This is really great for our team,” senior Spencer Brauchla said after clinching the title. “For us to come out here and win Spring Series again is good for us going into the race.”

Cutters’ Nicholas Thiery kicked off the Spring Series with a win in Individual Team Trials. He held off defending ITT winner Chris Craig of Beta to win the title by being the only rider under the 2:20 mark.

Craig led Beta with the second place finish, followed closely behind my teammate Kyle Knight in second. Joe Laughlin rounded out Beta’s three scoring riders in 19th.

The Black Key Bulls were able to flex their depth in ITTs, putting four riders in the top 14 and all seven of its riders in the top 52.

Beta was able to pull out in front of Black Key Bulls in

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The Kappa Alpha Theta team poses with its time after qualifying third.

even veterans.”

Ski took the Team Pursuit crown easily to close out the Spring Series.

In Team Pursuit, every team gets one preliminary run, and the top two times make the finals. Ski qualified for the final race with a firstplace time of 8:16.08, more than eight seconds faster than second-place Alpha Chi Omega.

The top two teams faced off at the end of the night. Ski shaved six more seconds off an already impressive time, going 8:10.01 to become Team Pursuit Champion.

Megan Huibregtse said they went into the finals just wanting the same race they had the first time out.

“I think we were just so

excited,” Ski rider Ashley King said. “We were cooled down, the wind died down. It was a fast track. We just had it in our legs. The base miles and all the training we’ve done, we just had it in us.”

Previously, Teter had won Team Pursuit for five consecutive years, including six of the last seven. They made a run for a sixth-straight crown but fell just short of the finals in third place overall.

Because Theta is the defending Little 500 Champion and will be wearing the yellow jersey, there won’t a white jersey in this year’s race April 24. Theta finished well ahead of the competition with 41 points in Spring Series. Delta Gamma just beat out Ski, 86 points to 87.

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Riders of the Black Key Bulls Cycling team pose with their Little 500 Qualifications time.

Miss-N-Outs, led by Craig, who won for a second consecutive year.

Craig beat Thiery and Phi Delta Theta’s Rob Lee in a three-man sprint to take the title while two other Beta’s advanced to the semi-finals to help Beta build its lead.

Craig said being able to win in Miss-N-Outs made up for his disappointment after coming up just short in repeating as the ITTs champion.

“I was very happy with our team performance in ITTs, but you know, I really wanted to win this year,” Craig said. “Getting the MissN-Outs win was really good for me on my senior year.”

Despite the strong showing in Miss-N-Outs, Beta was

unable to hold off a Black Key Bulls charge on the final day in Spring Series.

The Black Key Bulls put on one of the most dominating Team Pursuit performances in recorded history, putting two teams in the top three and clinching the Spring Series in the process.

The Black Key Bulls split up their seven-man roster into two teams. Their fourman team ran an 8:56.42 in the finals to beat Delta Tau Delta by just under seven seconds.

The second team finished third with a time of 9:15.35, putting another team in between the first team and Beta which ultimately helped the Black Key Bulls repeat as Spring Series champs.

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NOT THE NEW KIDS ANYMORE Ski Club Cycling setting the bar high in their second year

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Ashley King rides for the SKI Team in the in the Little 500 Qualifications.

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o one expected Ski Club Cycling to do as well as they did in the 2014 Little 500 — especially not

themselves.

A brand new team with four rookies, Ski qualified seventh and then finished seventh on race day when all they wanted to do was make it into the field. With the exception of Ashley King, who had a bit of cycling experience prior to joining the team, the sport was new to all of them.

Sophomore Megan Huibregtse joined the team just a week before registration closed. Before then, Ski had only recruited three riders.

Huibregtse didn’t even hesitate to say yes.

When she called her parents

with the news, she couldn’t tell them when the race was or even how long it was.

“I had no idea what I was signing myself up for,” Huibregtse said.

The four had very limited time to train. They also had never met and had to develop complete trust in each other within just a few months.

“That’s the beauty of Little Five,” senior teammate Alex Benigni said.

“If you care and start right away and work hard, you can get up to that level.”

It wasn’t all too serious at first, though. For awhile Benigni was training with the wrong kind of bike.

“We were just like, ‘Okay, we’ll go ride bikes together. It seems to be going well,’” Benigni said.

Benigni is roommates with Natalie Laser, who founded the team last year and is now a student coach.

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Beta Cycling team when they won the Little 500 in 2013, so her parents wanted her to be involved in the race, too.

Huibregtse said last year they went into the race nervous, but because it was a big event, not because they didn’t know what to expect.

A year later, there are nerves for another reason. The expectations they’ve set for themselves are much higher: win.

Luckily, trust is no longer an issue. They’ve become best friends and teasing amongst the Ski Club riders is a part of nearly every conversation. On the day of Miss-NOut’s, the team was on a pre-race warm up ride when they realized all this time, Benigni had the team name wrong. Naturally, they tweeted about her mistake.

Huibregtse said as difficult as practice might get, she never

dreads it.

“We mesh really well,” she said.

“I mean, I think we’re hilarious.”

Some riders have strict diets in preparation for the race. Not Ski. Benigni ate Wendy’s chicken nuggets before last year’s Qualifications.

“It went fine,” she said. “I totally forgot you’re supposed to eat healthy.”

All her teammates laughed. “No, you didn’t,” King said. “You just didn’t listen.”

Huibregtse said they’ve received some advice this year from their coach’s wife, who is a nutritionist at IU. Living on their own off campus, though, it’s sometimes hard to maintain a healthy diet.

Before every race, Ashley Williams eats two eggs, oatmeal and toast. A few others are also oatmeal fans. Huibregtse eats a bagel with peanut butter and banana slices,

“That’s the beauty of Little Five. If you care and start right away and work hard, you can get up to that level.”

Alex Benigni, senior

plus a cup of coffee.

Benigni prefers pasta, even if the race is at 8 a.m.

“I like it cold, actually, in the morning,” she said.

Whatever they do, it seems to be working. In its second year, Ski is a favorite to win the race. They finished third in Spring Series, including a win in Team Pursuit. Huibregtse had the sixth-fastest individual time trial, while King was 16th.

“We want to win for ourselves,” Huibregtse said, “not because we want to beat someone else.”

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Tabitha Sherwood begins as part of the pack in her trial during Miss-n-Out at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Sherwod has been competing since the age of 9.

The phoenix

By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu | @grace_palmieri

Tabitha Sherwood has something written on her arm, but it’s illegible.

The script has begun to fade.

A paragraph of black pen fills the underside of her left forearm. It’s her mantra. What does it say?

“No one knows what it says but me,” she says, half-smiling. Sherwood is rarely seen smiling. For awhile her focus intimidated even her teammates -- she was kicked off her team.

Now, she’s found a group that understands her.

A few years ago, Sherwood came up with the motto. She’d just had a tough race and was doubting herself as a cyclist. She needed something to motivate her.

Sherwood writes the mantra on her skin before every race. It reminds her to be herself.

“I live by it,” she says.

The writing this time is washed out because it’s two days old, leftover from Individual Time Trials.

Sherwood wasn’t supposed to compete in ITTs. She shouldn’t be racing at all, as she’s just two weeks removed from a wreck that left her with a fractured hip and a mild concussion.

But Sherwood raced anyway.

She finished second out of 161 riders. * * * Sherwood began running competitively when she was nine.

A track athlete in high school, she earned scholarships to several small, private schools. But she suffered from serious shin splints her senior year, which kept her from running.

So she chose the one school she didn’t have a scholarship to or a guaranteed spot on the track team,

a school she hadn’t even applied to when it came time to graduate from Plymouth High School.

The decision to become a Hoosier left Sherwood without a sport. Because she had always been a runner and swimmer, Sherwood’s longtime running coach Jami Holm forced her to get on a bike, too. It was the third dimension of the triathlons Holm spends much of her time training for.

Sherwood decided she would do the same. In her first triathlon, she qualified for nationals.

As Sherwood and Holm spent more time cycling together during the summer, both training for tris, Holm began to realize how good Sherwood was on the bike and insisted she find a Little 500 team.

Sherwood found Collins Cycling, an independent team.

A race she originally had no interest in was a breakthrough for Sher-

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wood into the cycling world. The physicality of the race was no issue for someone as physically fit as she was. And the bike exchange — maybe the most difficult element of the race — had become muscle memory for Sherwood as she transitioned from swimming to cycling over and over during triathlons.

Now, cycling is a sort of addiction for her. Sherwood is up at 5 a.m. each morning to train. It’s unusual to go a day without a trip, or two, to the track.

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loves most,” Bull said.

In the weeks after the crash, Sherwood’s teammates encouraged her to take time off training, maybe skip the Spring Series events so she would be ready come race day. The only thing that could heal a fractured hip is time.

She raced anyway. With her help, Phoenix earned a seventh-place finish at qualifications, and Sherwood finished second individually in both ITTs and Miss-N-Outs.

Racing didn’t hurt her hip, she said. It made it feel better.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 good first impressions.

She went to a private Catholic school growing up, where she was taught not to speak.

“I’m not articulate,” Sherwood said. “So I guess I stay quiet and look pissed all the time ... I have really bad resting bitch face.”

She’s been working on smiling for years, she said, but it’s never stuck. Bull, who met Sherwood last year when they both raced for Collins, became best friends. Sherwood taught Bull everything she knows about Little 500, racing and being mentally and physically strong.

Sherwood’s strength, Bull said, is misinterpreted as intimidation. She’s often misunderstood on and off the track.

“I don’t find her intimidating,” Bull said. “But 99 percent of the people out here do. My mom kind of described her as a badass who doesn’t really care what other people think.

She’s out here for her.”

After two years riding for Collins, Sherwood was asked to leave the team in September 2014. Sherwood’s competitiveness was off-putting to some members. Simply finding another team wasn’t an option — that would leave her ineligible to race this year.

Little 500 transfer rules work the same as NCAA transfers.

If Sherwood joined a pre-existing team she would have to sit out a year.

It didn’t seem fair to Sherwood.

She didn’t choose to leave her old team but was forced to, so why shouldn’t she be allowed to race?

She protested the decision. Thirteen other Little 500 teams, including some men’s teams, followed suit.

They wrote letters of support for Sherwood.

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* * * Back in October when Sherwood was assembling her new team, she wanted it to be an independent women’s team that would be around for a while.

“Not necessarily winners,” she said, “but a lasting team, a legacy.”

So Sherwood pushed her teammates as hard as she pushes herself to establish a precedent for Phoenix Cycling. Bull considers herself a motivator, but she’s never been pushed to her limits as far as Sherwood makes her go.

“Tabitha is an absolutely tenacious leader,” Bull said.

“She is incredibly strong.

Because she never settles, it makes her the best.”

The Little 500 is just a stepping-stone to what Sherwood hopes to make a professional career.

“If I have a chance to chase my dream, I’m going to rather than be stuck wondering ‘what if’,” she said.

On race day, in its first year as a team, Phoenix will wear silver. Sherwood is the easiest to spot in her bright orange helmet. She’ll be the first rider on the track.

Bull called Sherwood one of the best individual cyclists to ever ride in the Little 500.

When she races, it looks almost effortless. Sherwood is solid. She’s steady and unwavering. She’s in a zone.

And if she ever feels as though she’s slipping, she’ll glance down at what’s written on her arm.

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Sherwood did not want to be on a Little 500 team originally, but joined Collins Cycling at the insistence of her running coach. She became a part of the new Phoenix cycling team after being asked to leave the Collins Cycling team she had been a part of for two years.

that they’ll support you and want you to race,” Sherwood said.

McKayla Bull was the only one of eight Collins riders to stand up for Sherwood.

“I would not be here today if it wasn’t for her,” Sherwood said of her best friend.

“She believed in me when I didn’t believe in me.”

In late October 2014, Sherwood found she would have to form a completely new team to race. Bull joined Sherwood, who then recruited Clara Butler from Army, a team that dissolved after last year, and Butler brought a friend, Jenna Degner-Lopez. All of them had past experience riding, but now they had to learn to ride together.

“At first it was like we’re a group of misfits thrown together,” Bull said.

Sherwood has a poster hanging on the ceiling

above her bed. It’s a picture of a phoenix, a symbol of motivation for her.

When Sherwood and her teammates were deciding on a team name, the poster came to mind. “It kind of worked,” she said, “because we’re trying to find this fire inside to motivate us.”

The Phoenix is a bird from Greek mythology that rose from the ashes with renewed youth. It was reborn, just like Sherwood and her new team. They added a fitting catchphrase to go with the name.

“Rising from the cinders.” * * * Sherwood has learned that crashes are just a part of the sport. But she had never seen anything like what happened March 22.

It’s still hard for Sherwood to talk about.

“I’m still dealing with some PTSD from it,” she said.

She was racing at Lindsey Wilson College in Kentucky.

They weren’t even two miles into the race when a girl at the front of the pack began rubbing wheels and bumping into other riders as they headed down the first descent. When that rider went down, five or more others went down with her.

Sherwood was at the back. “There was no way I could avoid it because there were bikes and bodies all over the road,” she said.

She managed to maneuver around four riders before wrecking. As she went down, she heard a loud moaning sound coming from behind her.

“It sounded like they were dying,” she said. “That sound still actually haunts me.”

With six years of first-

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respondent training, Sherwood rushed over to try to help. The girl couldn’t speak. She was bleeding out of her ears, nose and mouth, and she groaned at the touch of a hand to any part of her body. Sherwood tried to keep her warm and stable and limit the bleeding until the ambulance arrived.

It wasn’t until the next day she realized just how bad her own injuries were.

She couldn’t put any weight on her hip. It was nearly impossible to move her head or neck, and she couldn’t think straight because of her concussion.

As badly as she was injured, Sherwood said she got off lucky. The other rider was in a near-death situation and suffered from a fractured skull. Nearly a month later, Sherwood still thinks about the incident.

“She saw someone close to death doing the thing she

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Members of the Independent Council Cycling team race during the Team Pursuit event at Bill Armstrong Stadium.

Independent Council competes in its first Little 500

By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu @grace_palmieri

By the end of the day, Independent Council was just happy to have qualified.

Run No. 1 — fault.

Run No. 2 — fault again.

Fault a third time and they’d be disqualified. For one last shot at making the Little 500 field, IC would now have to wait until the end of the day when all other teams had finished.

After a lengthy delay due to poor track conditions, it was after 10 p.m. IC was the very last run of the day. The majority of the riders and fans had gone home.

With 33 teams and 33 spots, all IC had to do was finish its four laps.

So the riders went slowly.

They were extra careful with their exchanges, making sure not to even come close to breaking a rule. When they crossed the finish line, IC celebrated like they had just won the race. They took a picture with their qualification time plaque and then more photos

with friends and supporters.

That plaque was placed at No. 31 on the leaderboard. It wasn’t pretty, but at least they were in.

It’s Independent Council’s first-ever year with a team in the Little 500, and all six riders are rookies.

“I think in the beginning we set our expectations a little high,” sophomore Geraldine Pattengale said, looking back on when the team was first formed.

That was the beginning of 2014. Independent Council, a social philanthropic organization for non-greek women, finally had the funds to start a team in its fifth year of existence.

Junior Morgan Robertson founded the team. She received a lot of interest from other girls, originally, about 15 wanted to join. That was quickly diminished to eight though, and at the end of the fall semester, IC lost two more riders.

But it was enough to field a team. The teammates’ desires to be in the Little 500 all came from different plac-

es. For one woman, it was something outside of her comfort zone. For another, watching the women’s race last year made her want to get involved. For some, they played sports in high school and were looking to be part of team again.

All of them had one thing in common — they’d all be part of IC’s founding team.

“It’s been really inspiring in a lot of different ways to watch them handle the amount that I ask of them,” alumna coach Nathan Harbison said. “I know it’s hard, I know its stressful, and they always seem to manage in one way, shape or form.”

IC has had to learn on the fly. They felt prepared physically, but there was a lot they didn’t know about the Little 500. It’s common for riders to schedule their classes around track time in the spring. No one on Independent Council did that, they said.

Learning as they went meant figuring out a training schedule, how often to go to the gym to workout and how often to be out on the bike.

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The members of Independent Council team pose with their time after qualifying for their first Little 500.

When they’re at the track, it’s important to make sure at least two girls are there at once to practice exchanges.

“We are just doing it live,” Harbison said. “They have the endurance and the ability, it’s just the fine details that experienced riders have

that’s the disadvantage.”

Senior Anna Chapman, co-president of IC, called this year a base year for the team.

They don’t expect to be great right away, but it’s a foundation for years to come.

For now, they’re content with being a part of it.

And they take comfort in knowing it’s the first time for all of them — they have nothing to lose.

“No matter how stressed out I was before practice, I leave it laughing nonstop,” Chapman said. “You leave on this Little 500 high.”

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Theta looks to be back-to-back champions

By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu @grace_palmieri

Junior Abby Rogers has only missed one Little 500 in her life. Even before she was old enough to be on a team, the Bloomington native was part of the race.

Her father was the race director for years. So prior to the event each year, they had a much shorter race just for Rogers — one lap on a tricycle.

“I used to get really embarrassed when they called my name,” she said.

Years later, she’s an even bigger part of the race. Last year, in her first Little 500, Rogers helped Kappa Alpha Theta Cycling to its first title since 2003. This weekend, Rogers, fellow veteran Liz Lieberman and rookies Evelyn Malcomb and Maddie Lambert will try to repeat as champions.

Throughout the Spring Series, Theta has proven itself the team to beat.

Three riders finished in the top 10 of Individual Time Trials, with Lieberman claiming the crown with a time of 2:36.76. Malcomb finished fourth and Rogers eighth.

Just more than a week later, Lieberman was atop the field again. She edged out Phoenix’s Tabitha Sherwood to win Miss-N-Outs.

Their performances in the first two events were enough to give Theta a commanding lead over the rest of the field and take the Series.

“I think we feel very lucky because even though we were just rookies last year, we at least have some sort of returning base, and then we’re able to help the rookies get to where they need to be,” Rogers said.

Since the inaugural women’s Little 500 in 1988, Theta has claimed five race titles. That’s tied for most with Kappa Kappa Gamma.

There’s typically a large pool of potential riders to choose from because of

“I think we feel very lucky because even though we were just rookies last year, we at least have some sort of returning base, and then we’re able to help the rookies get to where they need to be.”

Abby Rogers, junior Kappa Alpha Theta Little 500 rider

Theta’s history of success in the race. But despite having a new class of girls come in every year, Rogers said, being a sorority team isn’t always an advantage.

“Your selection is based on whoever’s in the house,” she said. “It’s not like you can pull from the whole campus.”

Growing up with the race, Rogers, who didn’t join Theta until she was a sophomore, always knew she wanted to be a rider. When Lieberman went greek, riding in the Little 500 wasn’t necessarily a priority but was always in the back of her mind.

Now, Rogers and Lieberman are teaching Malcomb and Lambert the Theta Cycling culture. Rogers said the two rookies hold themselves to higher standards than most veterans, a huge part of their success so far in 2015.

As a team, Theta qualified third for a first-row starting position on race day.

In 2014, Theta won the race with just one returning rider. Three were rookies.

They’re a year more experienced, but there’s always pressure that comes with wearing the yellow jersey.

“With the yellow jersey, that’s just automatically a target on your back,” Rogers said. “But we’re just trying to keep a clear mind and do what we can, treat it as a whole new year because TAE-GYUN KIM | IDS during the race anything can Senior Liz Lieberman from Kappa Alpha Theta cheers to her sorority sisters after placing their time on the time board at quals. Kappa Alpha Theta took third place in Little 500 Qualifications with a time of 2:45.16. happen.”

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Wright revamped, refocused for 2015 MICHAEL WILLIAMS | IDS

Members of the Wright Cycling team celebrate during Little 500 Qualifications after taking the pole with a time of 2:23.10. This is the first time in the team’s history that they have had the pole position.

The riders of Wright Cycling have only one expectation going into race day: win it all.

By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu @Sam_Beishuizen

It’s already been a banner year for Wright Cycling.

The men’s polesitters are starting as high as they ever had.

Their ITT times are stronger than any other Wright team before them and completed one of the best Spring Series the team has seen.

The 2015 Wright Cycling team is already making an argument for being the best in program history, which dates back to 1970, according to IU Student Foundation records.

And they’re giving credit to a Cutter.

Former Cutters rider Chris Wojtowich has

changed Wright’s team culture in his second year coaching and it’s beginning to pay off.

When the green flag drops Saturday, everyone’s going to be chasing Wright Cycling.

“A lot of it comes down to him,” senior R.J. Thomas said. “He was a great rider and he’s been a great coach.

He’s a huge part of what we’re doing. The culture he’s instilled in this team is irreplaceable.”

Wojtowich has amped Wright’s training program in his time training the team, helping them to quicker times and more consistent speeds.

Senior Evan Zehr, one of two riders in the field with race experience, said his training has radically

changed with the addition of Wojtowich, who in his own days was part of Cutters teams that lapped the entire race field.

Zehr said he used to train about 45 minutes a day to prepare for the race.

Now he’s training three to six hours, depending on the day.

“We’ve put so much more focus on training,” Zehr said. “It’s a complete change that everyone has bought into.”

That increased training started as early as last summer when Zehr, Thomas and Ted Tarricone, who has race experience with another team, cycled from Canada to Mexico to build a base endurance to work from.

“You can really see that start to translate on the

track,” Thomas said.

And the improvement hasn’t been in those three riders alone, either.

Wright followed up its polesitting qualifying run by putting five riders in the top 49 in Individual Time Trials.

Thomas led the way in 27th, followed closely behind by Zehr in 35th and Brad Bailey in 41st.

Not many other teams in the field have that type of depth, and Bailey said he thinks it’s made a huge difference in the team’s performance.

“It’s immense. It’s immense,” Bailey said. “I mean, everybody has their strengths on this team.

Everybody, for the most part, knows each other’s strengths. As a unit, we’re very, very deep.”

Zehr said Wright has been calling itself the “Dixie Dynasty” for the last few years.

The nickname comes from winning the Dixie Highway Award in two of the last three races.

The Dixie Highway is given to the team that makes up the most positions from its qualifying spot on race day.

Starting first, Wright won’t be able to win the Dixie Highway Award for a third time in four years, but that’s OK. They’ve got their eyes set on a different prize.

“We’re going out there to win,” Thomas said. “We’re not going out there for a top five or to do the best we’ve done. We’ve got the expectation to win.”

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Members of the Black Key Bulls cycling team celebrate after taking the pole at Little 500 Qualifications at Bill Armstrong Stadium. After all of the men’s teams had qualified, Black Key Bulls were in sixth.

‘THE PEOPLE’S CHAMPS’ The riders of Black Key Bulls want to repeat last year’s success

By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu | @Sam_Beishuizen

The Black Key Bulls have a problem.

But that problem is also their biggest strength.

The defending Little 500 champions had all seven riders finish in the top-third of Individual Tim Trials this year. Four of those seven were in the top 14, ahead of 25 other teams’ top riders.

They had so much depth that when it came time for Team Pursuit, they entered two teams. They took first and third, beating all but one other team with guys who could be considered leftovers.

What little difference there is between riders requires a stopwatch to detect. Finding the gap between the best and worst rider means splitting fractions of a second.

In racing, having too much speed is never a bad thing. But narrowing down the team will be the real challenge.

Of seven, only four will race.

“Something I figured out very quickly was I was going to be good enough to be an all-star on the 25th best team, or I could put in the work and essentially sit on the bench for a chance to ride with BKB,” senior Tyler Hart said. “With these guys, I had a chance to win.”

The other three riders will be watching from the sidelines where they wait for their chance to ride.

They could just as easily switch teams, hop on a bike and join the race almost immediately.

But they don’t.

These riders don’t just want to race. They want to race as Black Key Bulls.

And at the end of the day, riding in the Little 500 is only part of what being a Black Key Bull is about.

“This is going to sound weird, but I don’t think any of us joined the team to race Little Five,” junior Nick Hartman said. “This team is more than that. I’m not just in this to ride in a bike race.”

The Black Key Bulls are an independent cycling team competing in an intramural cycling race largely made up of greek fraternities.

To an outsider, they’re the black sheep. They’re the outcasts without a home.

But the Black Key Bulls are more than an independent cycling team.

They’re family. * * * The Black Key Bulls started in 1961 at Ball State University as a joke between brothers Bob and Richard Otalski.

Richard was a member of the Blue Key Honorary Fraternity. But as Black Key Bulls’ legend has it, Bob didn’t like that name much.

Bob began calling it the “Black Key Dis-Honorary Fraternity.”

Someone later decided the DisHonorary Fraternity needed an emblem and began using the Schil-

tz Malt Liquor Bull as the basis for the group’s mascot and logo.

The Black Key Bulls were born.

The organization wasn’t a fraternity. It didn’t have a permanent house or require members to pay dues and go through initiation.

They were just a bunch of guys who hung out together and enjoyed riding bicycles.

And they were good at it, too.

The Black Key Bulls were dominant in Ball State’s intramural cycling race, Bike-a-Thon. They accumulated eight wins between 1965 and 1995.

It was a type of dominance that rivals that of Cutters in Bloomington’s Little 500. The Cutters team has 12 wins in the last 30 years.

But after the team won three consecutive wins from 1993 to 1995, Ball State suddenly shut down its intramural cycling race.

Bike-A-Thon died out, and with it, so did the Black Key Bulls. * * * In 2006, Dave Choinacky had an idea: Bring the Black Key Bulls to Bloomington.

The first thing he needed was a lead rider. That’s when Chapman “CT” Blackwell joined the picture.

Blackwell, a Purdue transfer, was one of the field’s best riders but had been bouncing around teams. He nearly pledged with Sigma Chi in 2005 after riding with another team, ACR, in 2004 before he was convinced to join the Black Key Bulls.

Lead rider in tow, Choinacky and Blackwell started recruiting.

They got in touch with Isaac Neff, a new student looking to join a team.

He nearly joined Cutters and Dodds House before the guys at Black Key Bulls sold him on their vision.

“I heard their stories and what they were planning and I thought, ‘Oh, this is cool,’’” Neff said. “I wanted a different kind of program, and they had something different. Something new to Little Five.”

Still trying to get a team together, Blackwell got in touch with Ryan Knapp and Torrey Kittle and earned their pledges.

Within a couple months of forming, Black Key Bulls had a full team.

Together, they qualified 22nd in the spring of 2006 and gained 15 spots on race day to finish 7th in their first attempt.

Kittle was the only rider to graduate that year. Andy Roberts took his place in 2007 to help Black Key Bulls finish third in just their second try.

“It’s crazy to think how quickly it all happened,” Neff said. “We formed as friends and just sort of ran with it.”

Members of the Black Key Bulls team look toward the crowd and cheer in celebration after hanging their time on the board.

* * * There is no application process to join the Black Key Bulls.

They don’t hold rush events or open houses. Riders don’t hand out bids or host tryouts. The team forms SEE BLACK KEY BULLS, PAGE 15

During Team Pursuit, the members of the team stay close together in order to streamline more easily.

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Rob Lee takes the lead in his heat for Miss-N-Outs at Bill Armstrong Stadium. After two years of podium finishes but no wins, Lee hopes to take the Little 500 win this year.

Moving forward Phi Delt’s Rob Lee is ready to complete career podium

By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu | @Sam_Beishuizen

Rob Lee has been close.

Agonizingly close. Frustratingly close, he says.

The type of close that makes him drop his shoulders, let out a quick sigh and grin as he recounts Phi Delta Theta’s last five Little 500 finishes.

Four second-place finishes. One third.

“It’s extremely frustrating. Almost unreal,” Lee said. He’s personally been on the last two podiums without a win.

“To come up short five years in a row, it kind of sucks. There’s not much else to say. But this year — there’s some good vibes about this year.”

Lee’s one of the elite riders in the field. He’s been that way since he started racing for Phi Delta Theta nearly three years ago, but twice he’s come up just short of capturing the Borg-Warner Trophy.

There was the 2013 race when he ran out of energy before he could push for the win. His team settled for third.

Lee said he can’t even watch that

race replay anymore. When he gets around lap 195 — just before Delta Tau Delta’s Paul Smith and Beta Theta Pi’s Will Kragie drop him — he turns it off. He doesn’t need to see the rest.

Then there was last year.

Lee and his teammates did all they could to put themselves in an ideal position to win, only to get caught up in the six-team crash on lap 199.

Reflecting on it nearly a year later, Lee still said he couldn’t do much different to avoid the crash.

He was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Even so, he still thinks about it every now and again when he makes his way through turns 3 and 4.

“It’s tough to put behind,” Lee said. “But you can’t dwell on the past. You’ve got to keep moving forward.”

Lee’s done all he can to move forward. Moving on is the only way can get to the top step of the podium.

He rarely talks about falling just short the last two years, his brother Paul Lee said. Rob doesn’t like expressing his frustrations. He’d rather keep it internal.

Paul thinks it drives him.

“You know it bothers him, but he keeps it to himself,” Paul said. “He’s not too talkative about losing or needing to explain that he wants it.

He doesn’t have to. We all see how badly he wants to win.”

Before Rob even began riding, it was another heartbreaking podium that prompted him to ride in the first place.

He watched from the stands as a freshman in 2012 when Phi Delta Theta finished second for a second consecutive year.

Rob, having cycled competitively with Paul growing up in Fort Wayne, was immediately hooked.

At the time, cycling was more of a tool for Rob to stay fit for hockey.

It’s not hard to pick out the former hockey player in him with his long hair sticking out from underneath his helmet.

But after Rob saw his first Little 500 as a junior in high school, he knew he was interested. After seeing it again as a fraternity member, he said he needed to be a part of it.

“After watching them get second, I was like, ‘Alright. I want to do this.

This is awesome. This is so sweet,’” Rob said. “That was the moment I decided I was going to be a part of

this race.”

Now set to take to the grid for a third time, Rob said he’s as confident now as he ever was that he and his teammates can get the job done and break the streak of “almosts.”

Phi Delta Theta didn’t have the qualifying run they wanted and will start eighth. But Rob isn’t worried.

He’s quick to point out that they started eighth in 2013.

There’s something different about Rob when he’s racing, Paul said.

“As soon as he gets out on the track, Rob’s a completely different person,” Paul said. “He flips a switch. He knows what he wants, and nothing will stand between him and what he wants.”

What he wants is to be a Little 500 champion. He’s seen all but one step on the podium.

The only problem is that he’s missing the most important one — the top one.

“This race is special. I don’t think anything really compares,” Rob said.

“Yeah, it’s eluded me a bit. But the past doesn’t matter. I’m feeling really confident going into this race about our team. We just need to take care of business.”

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Riders are based on who competed in Individual Time Trials. Full teams are not decided until a few days before the race.

1 Wright Cycling Brad Bailey Riley Figg Duc Ngo Jonathan Stevens

02:23.100 Ted Tarricone Evan Zehr RJ Thomas

4 Cutters Wesley Bates Brian Depasse Logan Kuhn

02:24.811

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Luke Tormoehlen Anthony Vicino Roj Warstler

13 Kappa Sigma Jack Basler Nick Livingston

02:29.318 Lucas Miller Carter Richards

16 CSF Austin Crouch Clayton De Fur Zachary Purcell

02:30.365 Bryson Stevens Brandon Rohe

19 Gray Goat Brad Klingele Davis Steinbrecher Sam Stratton

02:27.913

Shane Moreillon Dylan Nash Elliott Parshall

10 Delta Tau Delta Warren Clayton Luke Momper Max Nelson

Sam Anderson Benjamin Gavette Charlie Hicks

Chris Pilipiszyn Erik Schwedland Nicholas Thiery

7 Lambda Chi Alpha Matt Chartier Blake Klenovich Philip Lovekamp

02:30.938 Thomas Torbik James Welch

22 Pi Kappa Phi

02:32.704

Benjamin Groya

02:32.942 Austin Galm Alex Kunce

Brandon Sakbun Nick Torrance Chris Turi

02:26.012

8 Phi Delta Theta Luke Ahern Collin Brunk Andrew Haffner Joe Hanauer

02:27.933

Lewis Woods Colin Evans Robert Henderson Joseph Hunt

Sam Patterson Austin Portolese Kyle Swain Richard Dixon

14 Sigma Nu Jeremy Crawford Spencer Rickman Austin Roach

Thomas Svenstrup Samuel Theil

Christopher Craig John Hyndman Kyle Knight

Joe Laughlin Jack McNamara AJ Sood

20 Phi Gamma Delta Bobby Coyle John Hunzicker

Michael Khamis Frank Reed

23 N. Indiana Cycling

Morgan Schlarb Connor Wright

26 Delta Sigma Pi Hudson Brown Eric He Daniel Humphrey

02:34.135

Rowan Mitton Brady Wade

31 Delta Upsilon Mark Elia Zachary Elias Austin Jones

02:36.626 Adam Kahn Patrick Snell

Nicholas Boyd Daniel Westergaard

Ben Ryan Jonah Harry

32 Sigma Alpha Mu Sam Lansat Josh Mark

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Robert Rajfer Brian Singer

02:30.847 Sudheer Vundru

02:32.320

David Salzer Landon Davison

02:32.928

Sam Erlanger Brett Frommer

27 Phi Sigma Kappa

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Conor Overman Danny Reumund

30 Beta Sigma Psi Stephen Crone

02:37.421

Brandon Leviton Kevin Mallen

24 Alpha Epsilon Pi

Ben Carter Andy Miles

02:35.528

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Brad Barton Adam Buck

Greg Janowiak Daniel Neal

Matthew Thompson Mark Werner Reid Wilson

18 Sigma Pi

Adam Hudson Daniel Koch Alex Robinson

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15 Delta Chi

Rob McBride Bennett Van Schouwen

02:32.051

Mitchell Sasseman Arjun Sridhar

12 3PH Cycling

Abel Barrera Duran Sean Hartwick Josh Hutchings

02:30.667

02:26.893

Nicholas Hartman Lucas Kalbfell Maddison Russell

9 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 02:28.066

Michael Hughes Jake Cohen Mitchell Duke Evan Mazurkiewicz

02:29.797

17 Beta Theta Pi

6 Black Key Bulls

Jacob Hartmeister Joe Krahulik

02:28.359

02:24.036

Ralph Iatarola

Spencer Brauchla Michael Chettleburgh Charlie Hammon Tyler Hart

Rob Lee Ryan Romenesko Tibet Spencer Joe Steinkamp

11 Forest

3 Evans Scholars Michael Hanrahan

Chase Van Halen Nicholas Wethington

28 Collins Bucaneers 02:35.367 29 Young Life David Crosman Jesse Grantz Connor Leigh

02:23.873

5 Pi Kappa Alpha Ian Kelly Adam Neidlinger

Wesley Jones Shane McCoy Matt Peterson

25 Theta Chi Jake Burt Joshua Elam

2 Sigma Phi Epsilon

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33 Alpha Tau Omega 02:39.060 Matthew Repplinger

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Lambda Chi Alpha

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RULES OF THE RACE THE RACE The women’s race is 100 laps, which is equivalent to 25 miles, while the men’s race is 200 miles, or about 50 miles. Both races are on the quarter-mile cinder track at Bill Armstrong Stadium.

Entrants are given one-speed Schwinn bicycles. Teams are made up of as many as four riders. The riders treat the race much like a running relay. When a rider is tired, they exchange the bicycle with a teammate. Any fulltime IU undergraduate can ride in the Little 500.

PITS Each team will be assigned a pit along the outside of the track according to its qualification position. These pits are approximately 16 feet wide and 6 feet deep.

All exchanges and bicycle repairs must be made within these boundaries. An exception is when adjacent teams are exchanging simultaneously, one team may step beyond the restraining line to complete its exchange. Each team is

allowed to have a pit crew not exceeding two persons — one in the pit and one on the infield with the bicycle.

THE LINEUP The order of the starting lineup will be determined by the qualification times.

The teams will be grouped in rows of three, starting with the No. 1 pole position team on the inside of the track. All No. 1 riders will be mounted and ready five minutes before the pace lap, after which time no crew member will be allowed on the inside of the track.

PENALTIES Teams guilty of violating these rules shall be penalized no more than 20 seconds.

This time will be spent in the penalty box located near the starting line. A black flag given to the team shall indicate that a penalty has been imposed. Penalties include imposing another team, including pit and crew, 10 to 20 seconds; illegal exchange from bicycle A to bicycle B, two seconds; using

BLUE WITH ORANGE STRIPE Bicycle attempting to pass

BLACK Ride on the outside of the track

YELLOW Ride with caution and maintain position

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more than three pits for an exchange, two seconds; and unsportsmanlike conduct, five to 20 seconds, depending on severity.

CHANGING RIDERS Teams will be allowed to change riders as often as they wish, but they must change a minimum of 10 times in the men’s race and five times in the women’s race. Each bike exchange must begin in front of the pit of the team concerned, and it must be completed by the time the rider taking over has reached the far limits of the next pit on the right.

Should the incoming rider fail to start the exchange in front of the correct pit, he or she must continue around for one more lap. If the rider backs up, the team will be subject to penalty.

The outgoing rider may use the preceding pit to run and gain momentum for the exchange, but the actual exchange of the bike must take place in the correct pit area.

THE FLAGS

GREEN Starting signal, clears course

LITTLE 500

RED Stop; race is halted

WHITE Starting last lap

CHECKERED

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Starter - Give the flag signals for start/finish line.

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28 Delta Zeta

17 Alpha Xi Delta 18 Teter

27 Sigma Delta Tau

26 Zeta Tau Alpha

7 Phoenix Cycling

16 Alpha Omicron Pi

5 Alpha Gamma Delta

25 Chi Omega

24 Pi Beta Phi

23 IU Nursing

33 Alpha Tau Omega

32 Sigma Alpa Mu

31 Delta Upsilon

30 Beta Sigma Psi

29 YoungLife

28 Collins Bucaneers

27 Phi Sigma Kappa

26 Delta Sigma Pi

25 Theta Chi

24 Alpha Epsilon Pi

23 N. Indiana Cycling

6 Alpha Chi Omega

15 Kappa Delta

4 Ski

14 Alpha Sigma Alpha

13 Delta Sigma Pi

2 Gamma Phi Beta 3 Kappa Alpha Theta

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10 Delta Tau Delta

9 Sigma Alpha Epsilon

8 Phi Delta Theta

7 Lamda Chi Alpha

17 Beta Theta Pi

16 CSF

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5 Pi Kappa Alpha

14 Sigma Nu

13 Kappa Sigma

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3 Evans Scholars

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1 Melanzana Lauren Anderson Julie Daugherty Melissa Ford Rachel Herr Melinda Ho

02:41.467 Fallon Lilly Rose Mullaney Elizabeth Murzyn Katie Reynolds

4 Ski

02:45.355

Alexandra Benigni Melissa Fielman Megan Huibregtse

Megan Jakoby Ashley King Ashley Williams

7 Phoenix Cycling Lauren Brand McKayla Bull Clara Butler

02:48.146

Jenna Degner-Lopez Tabitha Sherwood

10 Cru

02:49.102

Sydney Newell Hallie Pedersen

Anna DeBoer Bonnie Mailey

13 Delta Sigma Pi Sara Broadwater Alyssa Butler Samantha Harr

Leigh Dukeman Audrey Healey Ali Oppel

Allison Eschbach Lindsey Givin Rachel Krauss

02:51.742

02:54.419

Erika Petersen Michaela Ranft

02:44.626

Jenna Norgaard Rosemary Robinson

Adriana Cychula Megan Ernst Siobhan McCulloch Logan Ritter

Nichelle Sage Kristina Swafford Alexis Williams Katie Ziegman

8 CSF Katie Burkhart Brooke Hannon Mike Lee

02:48.744 Audrey Webster Abby Karcher

11 Phi Mu

02:49.774 Kimberly Navarro Kate Stanton Abigail Vehrs

Emilia Korte Grace Mower Allie Richards Patricia Skulborstad

22 RideOn Brittany Caputo Alison Crutchfield Alison Engle

03:00.708 Isabel Hale Sheridan Halloran

25 Chi Omega Betsy Astrup May Baluyut Josie Francis

03:03.083 Jessie Holland Grace Marrese Annie Patton

28 Delta Zeta

Lauren Haffner Morgan Rhodes Kourtney Sappenfield

Skye Summay Margaret Tucker

17 Alpha Xi Delta Maddie Hayford Alexandra Jostes Amelia Nelson

Katelyn Bretz Lauren Dowden

Shelby Farmer Chelsea Katz Aleks Obradovic

02:54.782

Meghan Wynne Emily Buckley

Liara Lovett Megan Young

Anna Broadwater

Morgan Robertson Paige Robertson

03:01.080 Natalie Pritz

26 Zeta Tau Alpha

Alissa Becker Natalie Ellis Alexandra Kolar

Megan Pliske Abby Rogers Margaret Surette

02:47.017

Ericka Reynolds Sydney Shreiber Torie Striebel

9 Delta Gamma Paige Babb Kristen Bignal Madison Borgmann

02:48.873 Grace Knerr Sarah Rivich Katie Ziegler

12 Wing It Alyssa Aungst Cherryl Ellison

02:51.656 Monica Kelley Emily Johns

Lauren Backmeyer Maggie Maier

Molly Macy Miya Swofford

03:12.574

Stephanie Blumenthal

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Elizabeth Libby Momper Penny Weiler

02:56.354

Emily Chesser Johanna Cole Ashton DeHahn

Jessica Saldana Julia Thomas Mackenzie Reynolds

21 Theta Phi Alpha Amelia Anderson Abby Brown Katherine Burkett Jessica Eilks

03:00.211

Kelsey Foster Kacie Fuhrer Alexis Malay Madison Wise

24 Pi Beta Phi

03:02.099 Abby Lowe Allie Peterson

27 Sigma Delta Tau Rachel Abrams Elli Bock

03:09.900

Allie Gold

30 Delta Phi Epsilon Jenny Balzer Bridget Eichman Taylor Rivera

03:22.185

02:53.965

18 Teter

Allie Dickmann Laurel Hortick

03:04.549

29 Alpha Epsilon Phi

31 Independent Council 03:18.960 32 Alpha Phi Anna Chapman Sandy Lam Jessica Mielke

02:59.252

Emily Rigopoulos Kayla Brahm

23 IU Nursing

Nicole Drennan Maryann Kirkhoff

03:10.110

Rachel Brown Madeline Lambert Liz Lieberman Evelyn Malcomb

02:45.161

14 Alpha Sigma Alpha 02:53.633 15 Kappa Delta

19 Kappa Kappa Gamma 02:56.011 20 Alpha Delta Pi Madeline Eurit Madeline Fletchall Taylor Hannasch Emma Harrison

3 Kappa Alpha Theta

5 Alpha Gamma Delta 02:47.002 6 Alpha Chi Omega

Katie Kapusta Jackie Kober Gretchen Mann Carly Moffie

Cecelia Oxford Andrea Schroering

16 Alpha Omicron Pi

2 Gamma Phi Beta

03:18.911

Taylor Rowles Sarah Riddle

33 Delta Delta Delta

03:25.250

No riders that competed at Individual Time Trials

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through friendships.

The process has remained unchanged even a decade after the Bloomington team was founded and four decades removed from the original “dis-honorary fraternity.”

Friends who like cycling find friends who like cycling.

“It’s an organic process,” Hartman said. “It’s not like we put out fliers or anything.

People find us one way or another.”

Speaking together at Club Wiener — the name given to the off-campus home of sophomores Charlie Hammon, Lucas Kalbfell and Michael Chettleburgh — the seven riders laugh as they retell the stories of finding Black Key Bulls.

Hart said he discovered the team in Hyper-E 112, a cycling class taught by former BKB rider Ren-Jay Shei.

Spencer Brauchla, another senior, said he initially figured he’d join a team a few weeks before race day before learning about the commitment required.

A third senior, Maddison Russell, was a member of IU’s run club for three years before just this year deciding he wanted a chance to ride for the defending champs.

The riders laughed as they recounted their own stories of finding the team.

Hammon and Kalbfell found the team as freshmen through Hart’s girlfriend.

Chettleburgh learned of BKB only after asking an orientation leader, “How many schools come to race in Little Five?”

“We were so green,” someone shouted after hearing Chettleburgh’s story.

The entire room burst out laughing.

“Quite frankly, I don’t care how fast you are on a bike,” Hartman said. “We don’t really look at that. You have to have a good personality first.

We can make you a good cyclist.”

Counter intuitive? Maybe.

But cycling doesn’t define who the Black Key Bulls are.

It’s just something they like to do. * * * The defending Little 500 champions like to go by another title: “The People’s Champs.”

Who calls them that? Well, they do. Admittedly, it’s a self-imposed nickname. But they believe it’s a fitting one.

It reflects the team’s culture. The Black Key Bulls aren’t anti-Greek, but without any affiliation, they wanted to connect to the independent students on campus.

“The People’s Champs is just kind of an attitude,” Hart said. “We’re an independent team. A bunch of GDI’s. I think that has a common connection with people.”

It’s a connection not unlike that of Cutters, a fellow independent team. But that’s where the similarities stop.

Hart said organizationally, the teams are just different. They almost foil one another.

BKB tries to take on a lessserious persona, almost to the extreme.

They have an active Twitter account that they use to crack jokes at race director Jordan Bailey — a former BKB rider — and recount efforts to secure sponsorship from Burger King, a fastfood favorite among the riders since 2010 when people called them “The Burger King Boys.”

“I keep going back to it — this is just fun,” Chettleburgh said. “I love the hard work we do, but at the same time, we’re in this to have fun with each other.”

* * * On Easter Sunday, the Black Key Bulls family was shaken.

CT Blackwell died after a nearly 13-month battle with cancer. Riders past and present mourned the death

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ture?’” Hart said. “The people on this team are picking the next generation. It starts to snowball. One way or another, we’re all connected.”

That’s why alumni join at the track on race day. It’s why Gomez was with the team watching them during qualifications and why Neff comes down during spring break to help prepare the team’s bikes.

Riders never really leave the Black Key Bulls.

They just run out of race eligibility.

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* * * Brauchla didn’t want to admit it out loud, but a year ago, doubt started to creep into the back of his mind.

The first 16 riders came.

The first 16 riders went. No race wins.

Maybe the system was broken. Maybe the Black Key Bulls couldn’t win the Little 500. Maybe they needed to commit to finding the best cyclists first, not just friends.

“There was just that question in the back of my head,” Brauchla said. “Can it really be done?”

Brauchla helped answer that question with a win in 2014. Three seniors graduated with the Borg-Warner Trophy. The weight of doubt was lifted off the team’s

well on race day.

They’ll have decals on their bikes and wear Jordan armbands — “Just like CT used to wear,” Brauchla said — in his memory.

The riders said they feel a connection to Blackwell because he was one of them.

He helped pick the first generation of Black Key Bulls. That generation selected the next. The third picked the fourth, passing the legacy down.

“It’s funny, people ask, ‘How do you keep this cul-

of the first modern-day Black Key Bull.

“CT was the definition of cool,” Hart said. “He was who you wanted to be when you grow up.”

There’s a connection between these riders that even they have a hard time explaining.

The current sophomores were elementary school students during Blackwell’s time, but even they felt the sting of losing a teammate.

The Black Key Bulls said they will be riding for Black-

much that we’re pushing each other to answer any questions about the team.”

The latest question: “Can the Black Key Bulls really repeat as Little 500 champions?”

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shoulders.

But as quickly as that weight was lifted, another was put back on. More questions were raised.

What would have happened if there wasn’t a crash on lap 199 that allowed Jacob Miller to coast to victory?

Brauchla is the only rider to return from the race-winning team. Maybe last year’s result was a fluke.

“We feed off that,” Hammon said. “We feed off each other, really. We just love being around each other so

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