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A LOOK BACK AT THE MEN’S AND WOMEN’S LITTLE 500 RACES THROUGH THE YEARS

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Then-Delta Tau Delta riders hold up a bike and a trophy after winning their second Little 500 Men’s Race at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The team will not return this year under the Delta Tau Delta name.

REMEMBER THE NAME Former Delta Tau Delta riders look to repeat as champions under new team name

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n this year’s Little 500, no men’s team will don the yellow jersey that is worn by the previous race’s winner.

Delta Tau Delta, which won its second Little 500 since 2012 last year, had its fraternity charter revoked earlier in the year and can no longer ride under the Delta Tau Delta name.

Although the name went away, the riders did not. The former members of Delta Tau Delta still planned on riding in Little 500.

Some were contacted by independent teams looking to bring a member of the reigning champions to their team, but all five returning Delta Tau Delta riders decided to stick together.

Senior Aaron Zollman said he returned early from winter break for training not knowing that Delta Tau Delta was in

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After the charter was revoked, Zollman said he was contacted by seven teams to see if he would be interested in riding for them.

The riders insisted on staying together as one team. But one issue remained: They needed a name.

Junior Jack Moore said it was important to keep a connection to the team’s past when deciding on the new name. He said wasn’t too worried about the name though because it is the people that matter. Despite the new name, Moore said the team’s attitude is the same.

“I don’t think our team identi-

“We get along really well and that’s definitely helped our transition,” Moore said. “I love this team so much. They’re all great guys, great friends, and great bikers too.”

As for the future of the team, Moore said things are still up in the air, but the team will return four riders next year. He said he

“All I care about is winning the race. I don’t care what other people think about the team or think about me personally. There’s just one thing that matters to this team – going out on race day and showing what we got.”

Jack Moore, JETBLACH cyclist and junior

“We had a huge meeting in the bike room and discussed possible names,” Zollman said.

“We chose JETBLACH to keep support within the house and with alumni.”

Each letter in JETBLACH comes from the names of the national founding fathers of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity.

ty has changed at all,” Moore said.

“It’s definitely tough when you literally get evicted from a house, but we roll with the punches and do what we have to do.”

Although the transition of moving out of the house has been difficult, Moore credited the team’s chemistry for making it easier.

hopes the house wins its appeal but the team will continue under the name JETBLACH until Delta Tau Delta returns to campus.

“If you get new members to the team it can lose the fraternity aspect,” Moore said. “It would just be a bike team with acknowledgment that we were formerly Delta Tau Delta. It would

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run how any independent team operates.”

When it comes to the race, Zollman said the team will execute the same plan that it does every year with the goal to win.

Moore said the team has done an excellent job staying focused on what really matters.

“All I care about is winning the race,” Moore said. “I don’t care what other people think about the team or think about me personally. There’s just one thing that matters to this team – going out on race day and showing what we got.”

Although Moore and his teammates won’t be riding under the Delta Tau Delta name, he has not forgotten who he is riding for.

“I’m putting the spirits of 150 brothers on my back,” Moore said. “I want to go out there and win the race for them. We want to go out there and prove that we still are a great bike team and house.”

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Senior Courtney Krause hands the bike to her teammate and junior Valarie Miller. Their team, Sigma Kappa, qualified for the Little 500 on March 26 at Bill Armstrong Stadium with a time of 2:52.010.

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he event deemed the largest collegiate bike race in the United States is for any IU undergraduate who wants to give it a shot.

A majority of the teams in the Little 500 consist of students from fraternities, sororities and dormitories.

However, it is not restricted to just those groups. Any full-time IU undergraduate student who meets the rules for eligibility can form a team to participate.

The total cost to make a team is, at the bare minimum, $500. It is $100 for the race entry fee and $200 each for the minimum of two bikes required, which must be the current year’s Little 500 bike.

“The money for the bikes

is a deposit so if you decided that you don’t want to keep your bike you can get the deposit money back,” Little 500 race director Andrea Balzano said. “But, I would say most teams keep their bikes.

Especially if you’re a new team because then you’ll have those bikes to practice on for the following year.”

From there, it is required that the new riders complete their rookie requirements, which are set by the Riders Council, a group of 20 juniors and seniors with past racing experience, in either the fall or the spring. Each team can choose what season they want to do it in.

“This is what we call rookie week, which is a twoweek intensive workshop basically,” Balzano said.

“In these two weeks you’ll learn everything you need to know about Little 500 and how to race.”

After that the riders must participate in two out of the three spring series events and log 17.5 hours on the track between the end of rookie week and race day.

In this year’s Little 500 event there are five new teams joining the field of competition. On the women’s side there are the Sweet Potato Club, Camp Kesem, Phi Gamma Nu and Sigma Kappa . There is only one new team, Black Ice, on the men’s side.

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Senior Brooke Hannon of Melanzana races in the first women’s semifinal at Little 500 Miss N Out on April 1 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Hannon failed to qualify for the Miss N Out finals.

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in two Little 500 races for CSF, in 2015 he 2017 Women’s Lit- other smaller schools.

Unfortunately, the three schools that and 2016. This year, however, she has tle 500 ITT champion wasn’t even supposed to had recruited her had already filled their chosen not to participate. This makes available scholarships and had no more her eligible to ride for another team next come to IU. year in her fifth and final year.

During her four years to offer.

Because of an ideology clash with Hannon had a choice to make: she at Bloomington High School North, senior Brooke Hannon lit up the volleyball could either go to one of the larger coaches, Hannon moved teams and court. She lived, breathed and absolutely schools and try to walk on the volley- joined Melanzana. Despite not riding ball team or she could play at a smaller in this year’s race, she competed for the loved volleyball. team in some of its spring series events.

By the time her senior year rolled school on scholarship.

For Hannon, the decision didn’t take Even after posting the fastest women’s around, she was regarded as one of the time in the individual time trials, she top setters in the nation and had re- very long.

“I wouldn’t have been able to win says that’s not enough. ceived Division I offers from four schools Next year her goals include break— IU, Ohio State, Florida State and Duke. a national championship at any of the smaller schools,” Hannon said. “So I ing the women’s ITTs record, setting the Her grandpa is good friends with women’s team pursuit record and winchose IU.” Mike Krzyzewski, the head men’s basWhen Hannon arrived at IU her ning the Little 500 race. Hannon said if ketball coach at Duke. When Krzyzefreshman year, she contacted Sherry she’s able to achieve those goals, it will wski heard Duke had offered Hannon a Dunbar-Kruzan, the head women’s vol- only happen with the help of her team. scholarship to come play volleyball, he leyball coach. Hannon had already met To Hannon, all success derives from a immediately called her to let her know Dunbar-Kruzan from high school re- team effort. that he wanted her there.

“I don’t want it to be about me,” Hancruiting, and the coach agreed to allow That moment sparked Hannon’s non said. “If we interest in Duke, win it, we will win and shortly thereit as a team.” after she signed “My top goals are to get a full women’s field and to amp up the Even though a national letter culture.

Next year I really want to leave the Little 500 just having she won’t be ridof intent to play made a difference.” ing on race day, volleyball for the Hannon said she Blue Devils.

Brooke Hannon, IU senior and member of the Melanzana Little 500 race team will still be right Everything was by her teammates going great for and coaches, eager and ready to help Hannon. She was nearing the end of her Hannon to practice with and try out for her team in any way possible. high school days and was eager to em- the team.

“I’ll be at the track doing whatever During her first day of practice, Hanbark on her collegiate career. After committing to Duke, she had even begun non dominated the court, so much so they need me to do, whether that’s fillflying out to Durham, North Carolina, to that Dunbar-Kruzan came up to her af- ing up water bottles, running to Jimmy terwards and told her she was the best John’s or whatever,” Hannon said. practice with the team.

In addition to her personal and team Then in May, just weeks before her setter the team had. Despite the posigraduation, Hannon received a letter in tive remarks, Hannon told the coach she goals, Hannon said she wants to help the Little 500 community improve and expand. would not be coming to practice again. the mail. It was from Duke University.

She said this year there were about The other players, seemingly anThe letter notified Hannon that she had not been accepted into the universi- noyed by the presence of an outsider, 10 to 15 teams that trained intensely and ty because her score on the math section had treated her poorly. Hannon said showed up at the track on a consistent of the SAT was too low. She was speech- she knew it was not an organization she basis.

Next year, she said she wants that numwanted to be part of. less.

Later her freshman year, Hannon ber to be much higher. As a member of “I was shocked,” Hannon said. “Duke was the only school I had applied to be- moved into the Christian Student Fel- Rider’s Council, a body of riders who strive to better the Little 500 community, she will cause that’s where I committed. I had lowship building.

While walking through the building one have the opportunity to do just that. nowhere else to go.”

“My top goals are to get a full womLuckily for Hannon, her mom had day, she found a road bicycle in one of the applied to various other schools for her rooms and decided to try riding it. Soon af- en’s field and to amp up the culture,” without her knowing. The list included ter, she began going on road rides and later Hannon said. “Next year I really want to leave the Little 500 just having made a the three other schools from which she joined the CSF Little 500 team.

Now a senior, Hannon has competed difference.” had received a scholarship offer and

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It takes two Sigma Alpha Mu set to ride Little 500 with two riders

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Senior Sam Lansat of Sigma Alpha Mu exits Bill Armstrong Stadium after his individual time trial on March 29, 2015.

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n April 22, the day of the 67th running of the men’s Little 500, most teams will take to the track with four riders. Additionally, most teams have multiple backup riders who did not make their teams’ race-day squad. However, one team will enter the race with only two riders — Sigma Alpha Mu. Senior Sam Lansat and sophomore Adam Goot’s path to qualify for Little 500 certainly differs from the norm.

After failed attempts at recruiting other riders, the team took to the track for the first time this year five days before qualifications.

Lansat said he was confident in himself and Goot going into quali-

fications given their athleticism and experience in the race. Both rode for Sigma Alpha Mu last year.

“Going into quals we thought we were going to be right on the edge,” Lansat said. “We knew our exchanges were great because we’ve done it in years past. We just went in there trying to sprint our hardest knowing we can take the pain and see what happens.”

Sigma Alpha Mu faulted during its first two attempts of qualifying. The first was caused by a chain drop, and the second was caused by a mishandled exchange.

“We were shaken up,” Lansat said. “Emotions were rising, but when we went back to our house to calm down we said this has never happened before — that it was a fluke. We went into the third

one confident, and obviously we pulled it off.”

On their third attempt, Sigma Alpha Mu qualified for Little 500 in 24th position with a time of 2:34.166.

This year, the team took a new approach to training. It began doing CrossFit as a way to build endurance and power in the members’ legs.

“Through the past years, we’ve biked a lot,” Lansat said. “CrossFit hits home with the pain element of going through quals and we figured that would be a good way to get into it.”

For Lansat, riding in Little 500 means everything. He said representing his fraternity and keeping the tradition alive were important to him despite the difficulties of riding on a two-man team. He

said participating in the race for a fourth time and earning the fouryear rider award is an honor and a motivator.

“I was obviously disappointed when I realized we couldn’t get together a whole team of four,” Lansat said. “When I realized it was just going to be the two of us, I thought, ‘We can’t just give up.

We have to try to qual, and we still have to represent our fraternity.’”

Lansat said he wants the week of the race to have meaning for Sigma Alpha Mu. “I feel like the whole week of Little 500 everyone parties but to me it doesn’t really mean anything unless you have something to cheer for,” Lansat said. “That was really my goal. I wanted the week to mean more than one big party week to my fraternity.”

“When I realized it was just going to be the two of us, I thought, ‘We can’t just give up. We have to try to qual, and we still have to represent our fraternity.”

Sam Lansat, Sigma Alpha Mu cyclist and senior

The future of the Sigma Alpha Mu team is up in the air. With Lansat graduating, Goot will be the only returning rider next year.

Goot said he will only race for Sigma Alpha Mu and will have a similar mindset going into next year.

“It could be a cool tradition for Sammy to have a two-person bike team every year,” Goot said. “All I need is one person.”

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OVER THE YEARS

In 1950, Howdy Wilcox came across an informal bike race of students.

A year later, 7,000 students attended the first Little 500 race and $6,000 was raised for student scholarships.

Since then, more than a million dollars have been awarded to working students.

Here are a few highlights from past Little 500 races.

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1 Little 500 founder Howdy Wilcox, Jr. and his family at the first race in 1951. Wilcox, then Executive Director of the Indiana University Student Foundation, modeled the race after the Indianapolis 500, which his father won in 1919.

2 The Cutters, an independent team, took the script of the movie “Breaking Away,” and turned it into reality at the 1984 Little 500 bicycle race at Bill Armstrong Stadium, winning the event. They went on to become the winningest team in Little 500 history with 12 championships.

3 Courtney Bishop laughs with other riders after the race about his minor wreck on turn one in 1992. Bishop was one of the riders that made up the only men’s all-black cycling team to participate in the Little 500 in 41 years.

4 For more than 60 years, the Little 500 has featured thrills and spills.

In 2008, a rider for Phi Sigma Kappa (from left) lost control on turn one, and other competitors struggled to avoid the crash.

5 Young Pioneers’ Duo Xu and Haoming Liu transfer a bike during the 2016 Little 500 qualifications at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Young Pioneers would go on to place 24th and qualify for its first Little 500.

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Before the women raced in their own Little 500 race, there was the Mini 500. Established in 1955 to give women a race that compared to the men’s first Little 500, the two-lap tricycle race continued until 2004. The first women’s Little 500 race was in 1988.

Here are a few highlights leading up to the 2017 race.

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1 The three final teams race to the finish in the last heat of the 1977 Mini 500. For decades, IU women raced on trikes before the first women’s Little 500 was in 1988.

2 Wilkie Sprint riders celebrate following the finish of the first Women’s Little 500 in 1988.

3 Deirdre Finzer gives advice to a Gamma Phi Beta teammate. Finzer placed first in the women’s Miss N Out competition in 2001 and helped the Gamma Phi Beta team ride to a 7th place finish.

4 Haley Meyer, Jordan Ladin, Michelle Baques, Natalie Ellis and Taylor Savel scream and cheer “A-CHI-OH” as Alpha Chi Omega takes the pole position during qualifications March 29, 2014 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Alpha Chi Omega kept the No. 1 women’s spot with a time of 2:41.16, two seconds faster than Melanzana Cycling who finished in the No. 2 spot.

5 Phoenix Cycling holds the victory bike after winning their first Little 500 in 2016 at Bill Armstrong Stadium.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 entered its senior year of school it decided to make a joke into reality and ride in the Little 500.

“Making a team is pretty easy because all you have to do is get a dedicated group of people to show up every week,” Pusateri said. “We did rookie training in the fall ... but then got really serious over winter break.”

Sophomore Grace Landry, member of Camp Kesem, said the process of becoming eligible has its ups and downs.

She said not being associated with greek life or having sponsors makes things difficult at first.

“Unlike most teams we do not have kits, rollers or the type of training environment as well as coaches that others teams may have access to,” Landry said. “Nonetheless, the experience has definitely brought us closer together.”

Camp Kesem is a nationwide organization that coordinates camps led by college students that supports children whose parents have had cancer.

Landry said she and her teammates all shared an interest in participating in the race and decided to make a team in honor of the camp.

“It was the organization that brought us all together,” Landry said. “We could not think of a better way to gain awareness for our organization’s cause and our wonderful campers and families than to name the bike team after something that means so much to each one of us.”

Landry said the riders never realized how much support they would gain from their parents and campers so quickly, which has just motivated them even more throughout the past few months.

The process is simple: Get a group, come up with a name, pay the money, go through the training and bike Little 500.

“Just do it,” Pusateri said in regards to students who are thinking about a team in the future.

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Bignal sisters ready to ride together for Delta Gamma in the Little 500

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It was the worst thirty minutes of senior Kristen Bignal’s life.

The agony of defeat was setting in for Bignal, and she was barely able to breathe.

Riding for Delta Gamma, she had just been beaten in a sprint to the Little 500 crown by Phoenix’s then-senior Tabitha Sherwood by a razor-thin margin of 0.051 seconds.

Not only had she lost the race, but her sister sophomore Laurie Bignal recalls that she was on the verge of passing out.

Instead of being drowned in disappointment, Kristen has used that loss as the ultimate fuel.

“I don’t really think there’s been a day where I haven’t really thought about Little 500 and my goal for this year,” Kristen said. “That last lap from last year has been in the back of my mind all the time when I’m training. I constantly think about it.”

Using last year as motivation, Kristen also will be riding with her sister, who is making her Little 500 debut as a sophomore. Laurie trained with the team last year, but she did not ride with the team in the actual race.

“Riding with my sister definitely has been a unique experience,” Kristen said. “It’s been hard balancing being an older sister with being a team captain and a leader for her on this team. But it has been so much fun watching her grow as a rider.”

“We’ve always been really close and riding with her really pushes me. Watching her and how well she does in all the events really inspires me to try my hardest every time I’m out on the track.”

Laurie Bignal, Delta Gamma cyclist and sophomore

The two sisters have always been close.

Both played soccer growing up and neither had any competitive riding experience before coming to IU. Kristen joined the Delta Gamma cycling team her freshman year, and Laurie followed in her sister’s footsteps when she arrived to Bloomington.

Laurie said it’s fun riding with her sister, but said she also has learned a great work ethic from Kristen.

“We’ve always been close and riding with her really pushes me,” Laurie said. “Watching her and how well she does in all the events really inspires me to try my hardest every time I’m out on the track.”

Kristen is someone Laurie said she can turn to talk to about anything and everything.

But just because they’re sisters doesn’t mean Kristen goes easy on her younger sibling.

“I never get special treatment,” Laurie said. “There will be times where I necessarily don’t want to do something or I’m not doing my best, and she’ll push me

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Senior Kristen Bignal of Delta Gamma races during Little 500 individual time trials on March 29 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Bignal finished sixth overall with a time of 2:39.133.

just as hard as she’ll push anyone else.”

Their teammates see the sisters’ togetherness on a daily basis.

“They’re very similar, very, very similar,” senior teammate Sarah Rivich said. “They eat the same, they talk the same, their mannerisms are exactly the same. It’s just they have different hair color. They are two peas in a pod.”

There’s one other area where they differ.

“We definitely have different personalities, and when we get in competitive mindsets like we do in Little 500 sometimes we butt heads a little bit,” Kristen said.

The end is near for the duo’s time riding together for Delta Gamma.

The race will be a family affair for the Bignals, and

Laurie said she is thrilled to be riding alongside her sister as a way for Kristen to finish off her senior year at IU and final year in the Little 500.

“I’m just very excited and I just can’t wait for the race,” Kristen said. “I know the second the race ends, I’ll be so sad. Even if we win, I’ll be crying tears of joy and sadness because this is my last race.”

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Sophomore Xavier Martinez of Black Key Bulls is congratulated by a teammate after his race at Little 500 individual time trials March 29 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Martinez finished first with a time of 2:19.420.

WRAPPING UP THE SEASON Black Key Bulls wins men’s spring series with wins in team pursuit and ITTs, Cutters takes Miss N Outs

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When the men’s Little 500 race begins Saturday, the Black Key Bulls will be sporting white after winning the spring series competition for the fourth year in a row.

Spring series is composed of three events — individual time trials, Miss N Out and team pursuit. Each takes

place in the roughly onemonth-long period between qualifications and the race and gives riders extra chances for competition and track time.

Black Key Bulls won the right to wear white thanks to a victory in team pursuit and an individual win by sophomore Xavier Martinez in ITTs. In ITTs at the end of March, BKB had three

different riders finish in the top 10, which included Martinez’s top time of 2:19.420.

BKB was also the only team to have multiple riders make it to the final heat of Miss N Out. Martinez and Will Ottenweller were beaten out by Cutters senior Nick Thiery, who took home the title in that event.

Heading into team pursuit, the final event of the spring series, BKB had a

comfortable lead in the standings and posted the top time in the preliminary heats for the event.

In the championship heat, BKB took on surprise finalist Christian Student Fellowship and coasted to a win by nearly 30 seconds to wrap up the spring title.

BKB will start in eighth position during the Little 500 after posting a time of 2:26.451 at qualifications.

QUICK RECAP OF SPRING SERIES WINNERS ITTs sophomore Xavier Martinez, Black Key Bulls Miss N Out senior Nick Thiery, Cutters Team Pursuit Black Key Bulls Heading into team pursuit, Martinez said winning the spring series would mean a lot to him and his teammates. On race day, their white jerseys will make it clear to spectators and other teams that BKB turned in

yet another strong spring performance.

“I love the white jersey,” Martinez said. “It’s a really hard one to win because it shows that you put in so much work throughout the year.”

Kappa Alpha Theta takes home spring women’s title, Melanzana and Delta Gamma take individual event titles

By Jake Thomer jjthomer@imail.iu.edu @jake_the_thomer

Despite not winning any spring series events, consistently impressive results earned Kappa Alpha Theta the women’s spring series title for 2017.

After posting a qualifying time of 2:37.368 and earning the second spot in the starting grid for the Little 500, Kappa Alpha Theta started spring series out strong with a pair of top-three finishes in individual time trials.

Senior Grace Bennett and junior Rachel Brown finished second and third in ITTs, respectively, and were edged out by Melanzana rider and senior Brooke Hannon.

Hannon’s time of 2:36.553 barely bested Bennett’s mark of 2:36.737, while Brown finished about a second behind with a 2:37.820.

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along with the three other Kappa Alpha Theta riders who finished in the top 30 of ITTs, delivered strongenough performances to get their team off on the right foot in the spring series.

The Miss N Out title went to senior Kristen Bignal of Delta Gamma, but Bennett and Brown made it to the final heat and again finished in the top three, which earned more valuable spring series points for their team.

In the final event of the spring, team pursuit, Kappa Alpha Theta only needed to make it to the championship heat to clinch the spring title.

They did just that by posting the fastest women’s preliminary time with a mark of 8:37.65.

Although Delta Gamma took down Kappa Alpha Theta by about one second in the final heat of team pursuit, the spring title had al-

ready been wrapped up.

When Kappa Alpha Theta lines up wearing the white jersey in the second position to begin the women’s Little 500, confidence will likely be high.

As the spring series winners, Kappa Alpha Theta has proven its mettle. On race day, there is just one more thing the team can accomplish that it has yet to do this year — win.

QUICK RECAP OF SPRING SERIES WINNERS ITTs: senior Brooke Hannon, Melanzana Miss N Out: senior Kristen Bignal, Delta Gamma Team Pursuit: Delta Gamma VICTOR GROSSLING | IDS

Kappa Alpha Theta moves into the third turn during Team Pursuit at the Bill Armstrong Stadium.

Theta raced against Delta Gamma on April 9 during the final event of the spring race series.

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MEET THE MEN OF LITTLE 500 1. Sigma Alpha Epsilon Nolan Filchak Sean Marks

Ryan Tuffnell Joe Krahulik

4. Forest Colin Evans Joseph Hunt Parker Rauschuber

Johnathan Steenport Sam Patterson

7. Lamba Chi Alpha Dan Cummins Danny DeTorrice

Phil Lovekamp Keegan McCurry

10. JETBLACH Griffin Casey William Lussenhop

Jack Moore Aaron Zollman

13. Phi Sigma Kappa Sam Butler Carter Carlson

Jack Garlick John Hummel

16. Tau Kappa Epsilon Edson Cuiriz Devan Sandala

Michael Sellitto Jon Stevens

19. Kappa Sigma Jack Basler Nick Bongi

Tristan Gold Bryan Mooney

22. Phi Delta Theta Nick Price Austin Curtis

Sasha Possick Chase Whitler

25. Alpha Epsilon PI Skylar Gibson Zach Horowitz

Dylan Horowitz Evan Safrin

28. Delta Sigma Pi Hudson Brown Joesph Gawor

Luke Latchford Alejandro Miller

31. Pi Lambda Phi Adam Kelty Alec Kreilach

Tony Lemon Adam Oldham

2. Beta Theta Pi John Hyndman Joe Laughlin

Jack McNamara Colten Renier

5. Sigma Phi Epsilon Sam Anderson Pete Arnold

Daniel Cox Benjamin Harris

8. Black Key Bulls Charlie Hammon Kevin Mangel

Xavier Martinez Noah Voyles

11. Bears Riley Figg Andrew Goodrum

Jake Greene Caleb Langley

14. Phi Gamma Delta Brad Blank Bobby Coyle

Frank Reed Isaac Sullivan

17. Pi Kappa Alpha John Arcaro Blake Jackson Ian Kelly

Anthony Raymond Chase Van Halen Zen Zupin

20. Theta Chi Akhil Patel Evan Snodgrass

Jake Weiskirch Matthew Winkeljohn

23. Sigma Nu Jeremy Crawford Justin Gould

Michael Schmahl Levi Stull

26. Sigma Pi Will Marsch Keegan McLay

John Murphy Bennett van Schouwen

29. Black Ice Cycling Brendon Block Danny Mikrut

Ben Seinfeld James Young

32. Beta Sigma Psi Johnny Hodson Jake Kelley

Zach Underwood Trent Waggoner

3. Cutters Patrick Coulter Noble Guyon

Erik Schwedland Nick Thiery

6. Sigma Chi Elliot Cofer Nick Faupel Dom Fiore

David Holtkamp Tim Ryan

9. 3PH Craig Athaide Mitchell Duke Matthew Thompson Ryan Bredemeyer Evan Mazurkiewicz Trevor Uhl Jake Cohen Ben Thompson Reid Wilson

12. CSF Cycling Chatham Anderson Austin Crouch

Kevin Drake Evan Lee

15. Gray Goat Brad Klingele Thomas Torbik Sam Stratton James Welch

18. Alpha Sigma Phi Michael Altman Neil Bassett Eric Freeman

Austin Goodson Nathan Hokenson

21. Acacia Kyle Doyle William Kerr

Kameron Konpasek Brisco Wood

24. Sigma Alpha Mu Adam Goot

Sam Lansat

27. Evans Scholars Ethan Åberg Tyler Citrin

Brendan Mullen Ethan Parsley

30. Delta Chi Abel Duran Kurtis Greer

Eddie Krillenberger Daniel Majors

33. Young Life Cycling Daniel Getz Brice McGarvey

Logal O’Neill Evan Slagle

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Young Life Cycling Delta Chi Evans Schoalrs Sigma Alpha Mu Acacia Alpha Sigma Phi Gray Goat CSF Cycling 3PH Cycling Sigma Chi Cutters

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Each year, three jersey colors are designated to certain teams. The white jersey goes to the winner of cumulative Spring Series event points, yellow is worn by last years’ winners and green is worn by the pole winners. There is no team wearing the yellow jersey this year.

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 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.

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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. Penalities include imposing another team, including pit and crew, 10 to 20 seconds;

illegal exchange from bicycle A to bicycle B, two seconds; using more than three pits for an exchange, two seconds; and unsportsmanlike conduct, five to 20 seconds, depending on severity.

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* There will also be the addition of the candy striped jersey for both the men’s and women’s races.

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

These 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 no crew member will be allowed on the inside of the track.

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 in the infield with the bicycle.

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THE RACE The women’s race is 100 laps, which is equivalent to 25 miles, while the men’s race is 200 laps, or about 50 miles. Both races are on the quarter-mile cinder track at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Entrants are given onespeed 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 full time IU undergraduate can ride in the Little 500.

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MEN’S TEAMS - SATURDAY

1. Delta Gamma 2. Kappa Alpha Theta 3. Alpha Omnicron Pi 4. SKI 5. Alpha Chi Omega 6. Cru Cycling 7. Teter Cycling 8. Alpha Sigma Alpha 9. RideOn 10. Alpha Gamma Delta 11. Kappa Delta 12. Sigma Kappa 13. Melanzana 14. Alpha Delta Pi 15. Theta Phi Alpha 16. Delta Zeta

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MEET THE WOMEN OF LITTLE 500 1. Delta Gamma Kristen Bignal Laurie Bignal Hanna Coppens

2. Kappa Alpha Theta Grace Bennett Rachel Brown Sydney Keaton

Audrey Morlan Sarah Rivich

4. SKI Club Emily Carrico Megan Huibregtse Lauren Lewis

Ivy Moore Kathyryn Wallisch Ashley Williams

10. Alpha Gamma Delta Nichelle Sage Alyssa Todd

13. Melanzana Amelia Anderson Reagan Brankle Melissa Ford

Brooke Hannon Anna Harris Amanda Keene

Emily Bromm Alexandra Kolar

Jordan Cartee Anna Darling Kirsten Drehobl

Lauren Backmeyer Whitney Carroll

Amy Shedd Megan Young

19. CSF Cycling Emily Binhack Shania James

Carly Schmeissing Abby Snyder

22. Alpha Xi Delta Alli Jostes Paige Masterson

Amelia Nelson Ellen Potocsnak

Maddie Roger

25. Delta Phi Epsilon Emily Bennett Mariah Blackwell

Melanie Buckmaster Hailey Meyer Halle Fromson

28. Alpha Epsilon Phi Cassidy Aronin Mackenzie Breen

Sydney Chaiken Samantha Nozick

31. Sigma Delta Tau Jorie Pollard Rebekah Poscover

Rachel Slepian Tamar Tecktiel

Hannah Wade

Kayla Brahm Abby Messenger

Briana Huskin Maggie Maier

Courtney Krause Valarie Miller Cecilia Pekarek

18. Independent Council Laura Eaton Sandy Lam Erika Wilson Esther Herbers Celine Oberholzer Hayley Kwasniewski Geraldine Pattengale

Abby Vehrs Mary Cate Pachiciarz

21. Kappa Kappa Gamma

Amy Hausfeld Elissa Hermanson

Madeline Fletchall Vanessa Pereira

23. Phi Gamma Nu Sabrina Acker Jessi Cialdella

Bridget Barnes Alyssa Butler

Clare Donohue Lauren Towne

Ellie Klemsz

Alejandra Ruiz

Louisa Fan Joelle Gross

Maggie Miles

27. IU Nursing Aly Hendricks Samantha Pauley

29. Alpha Phi Eleanor Berg Julia Briano

Alexandra Viterisi Julia Zhu

24. Delta Sigma Pi

26. Wing It Kelsey Endahl Emily Johns

Emma Risley Bri Shoemaker

Caitlin Kamplain Alexis Malay Tatiana Knox Sarah Warner

20. Gamma Phi Beta Kayley Adams Natalie Ferguson

Alison Engle Amanda Middleton

15. Theta Phi Alpha

Grace Skorin Hannah Taylor

Emily Mailman Meghan Mileski Elizabeth Schack

Hallie Pedersen

12. Sigma Kappa

17. Phi Mu Stephanie Chinn Nicole Coghlan Katie Kapusta

Meghan Lee Emma McCardwell Sydney Newell

Victoria Barnhill Austin Courtney

14. Alpha Delta Pi Izzy Stein

Chelsea Richardson Lizzie Smith

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16. Delta Zeta Lexie Boor Hannah Nodus MJ Schulz

Rachel Bounds Carlie Etter Abigail Lecy

Jackie Mooney Miller Fahey

Regan Kirsch Katie Rosner Zoë Vriesman

Alexis McDonald Ali Oppel Erika Peterson Dayna Pedzinski

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Katie Niesen Sarah Weaver Chase Wischmeier

Maddie Kautsky Erin Adair Maddie Ellery Adrianna Lamphier Megan Ernst Tyler McDowell Kate Gillum Sonja Popovich

Emilee Brown Leigh Dukeman Kaci Garrity Audrey Healey

Evelyn Malcomb Laura Anne Watanabe

5. Alpha Chi Omega

7. Teter Cycling Kinsey Allen Lauren Britt Haley Garl

3. Alpha Omnicron Pi

Shana Porter Bridget Protsman

30. Sweet Potato Club Michaela Dumesny Marlo Owczarzak

Anna Pusateri Christina Zerfas

Tori Ziege

32. Camp Kesum Grace Landry Lydia Merriman

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First year Director of IU’s Little 500 Andrea Balzano describes her position as a “dream come true.” Balzano is a former Little 500 rider for Collins LLC.

A dream come true After riding for Collins, Andrea Balzano has taken on the role of race director

By Patrick Wisdom pwisdom@indiana.edu @pwisdom17

Andrea Balzano had never ridden a bicycle competitively until she came to IU in Fall 2010. In fact, she had never participated in any sort of competitively athletic activity.

Today things are much different. As the director of the Little 500 race, which is put on by the IU Student Foundation, she oversees one of the most competitive intramural collegiate events to which more than 70 men’s and women’s teams devote endless hours of training throughout the year.

To Balzano, being the race director isn’t just any ordinary job. It’s a dream come true.

“It’s not often that you’re 25 and working your dream job, so I just feel very, very lucky,” Balzano said.

“I have gained so much from being a part of this that all I want is to push that onto other students and to help them see the benefits of being part of this organization.”

When Balzano first came to IU as an undergraduate in fall 2010, she began competing for the IU equestrian team and took up running. During her sophomore year, while living in Collins

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LLC, she noticed a flyer in one of the stairwells. It was for a Collins Little 500 callout meeting.

She already enjoyed running, so Balzano decided to go to the meeting. When she showed up, she was the only woman there. Despite the poor showing, word spread that she wanted to start a Collins team, and two other students — Megan Burger and Madeline Hanley — approached her. They began training in the Wildermuth Intramural Center together three days a week.

Later that year, the team hired Zach Lusk to be its coach. Lusk was a former Little 500 rider who rode for Cutters and won the Little 500 in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Despite joining a team and finding a coach, Balzano didn’t really understand and appreciate the extent of the Little 500 community until December of 2010 when she attended a Little 500 open house at the Wilcox House.

“Little 500 really started for me that day,” Balzano said. “I just remember walking into the Peterson Room and being like, ‘Wow. All the women around me are really cool.

They’re all physically strong women.

They’re doing this cool thing, and this is way bigger than I thought it was.’”

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The open house was also the first time she met then-Little 500 race director Jordan Bailey. She recalled thinking his job was awesome from the moment she met him. Two years later, during her senior year, her interest in the job really spiked.

“As soon as I became president of Rider’s Council, I knew I was really invested in IUSF and I wanted the job that Jordan Bailey had,” Balzano said.

Unfortunately for Balzano, she had no idea when the job might open, which forced her to pursue another path.

After graduating from IU, Balzano moved to South Dakota to teach ninthand 10th-grade English and speech classes at St. Francis Indian School as part of the Teach for America mission. Balzano said many of the skills she acquired at IU helped her in the classroom.

“Being a Little 500 rider and a member of IUSF helped me with time management, self-care and leadership in the classroom,” Balzano said. “There were a lot of transferable skills from Little 500 to teaching.”

While she had planned on teaching at St. Francis Indian School for at least four years, her plans changed quickly when Bailey announced in March 2016 that it would be his last year as the race

“It’s not often that you’re 25 and working your dream job so I just feel very, very lucky.”

Andrea Balzano, Little 500 race director

director.

After applying for the job and interviewing twice, Balzano received an offer about a month after she learned of Bailey’s departure in April 2016. She was grocery shopping at the time and didn’t really know how to reply. She said she remembers feeling overjoyed.

In June, Balzano moved back to Bloomington and got to work. She said it has been a busy year and there has been a bit of a learning curve but she wouldn’t trade it in for anything.

“I really love working with students,” Balzano said. “College is such a transformational period. It was for me, and I think it is for all students. I love watching students grow and helping them become better leaders.”

Now that the first year of her dream job is coming to a close, Balzano said it’s something she could see herself doing for a while.

“I definitely see myself doing this for several years,” Balzano said. “I don’t know how many years yet, but it will be hard to top what I’m doing now.”

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