2024 Avout Racing Selects
Do You Dream of Cycling?
The Avout Racing Selects is a small group of passionate, competitive athletes ages thirteen to U23, led by Head Coach Ben Ollett. Our mission is to set up our Selects athletes for professional cycling once they leave the junior ranks. We have crafted a program that includes individual training programs, intensive practice sessions, building tactical knowledge of the sport, and racing as often as possible. The athletes who are selected for this program volunteer in their local communities and maintain a high grade point average in school.
The Selects application process will be just that – selective. We want to assemble a strong group of juniors ready to take on the local and national stage. Do you have what it takes? Apply HERE.
Selects Program Offerings for 2024:
Full Year Program – MTB and CX – $5000 program fee
- Two free race level kits
- Sponsor support – discounts and free product
- Winter MTB mini-camp/clinic
- Strength and Conditioning sessions twice per week for 10 weeks, January – March
- Team building activities
- Virtual meetings and trainings on topics like nutrition, mental training, race tactics, etc.
- Spring MTB Camp in Moab, TBD – possibly: March 21-25
- Twice per week MTB practices, April – mid July, with possibility of morning practices in the summer
- Full travel race support (including bike transport and housing/food for juniors not staying with their parents)
- Soldier Hollow (Pan American Championships)
- Englewood Open
- Missoula XCT
- Mountain Bike Nationals
- If interest: US Open Fayetteville
- Local race support at key local MTB races
- Cyclocross mini-camp/clinic
- Twice per week CX practices, mid-August – CX Nationals
- Full travel race support (including bike transport and housing/food for juniors not staying with their parents)
- One CX race on the UCI/Pro calendar
- Cyclocross Nationals
- Local race support at local CX races
- Individualized training plans from Avout Racing Selects' Head Coach Ben Ollett at a discounted rate of $150/month or bring your own coach
MTB Program – $3700 program fee
- Two free race level kits
- Sponsor support – discounts and free product
- Winter MTB mini-camp/clinic
- Strength and Conditioning sessions twice per week for 10 weeks, January – March
- Team building activities
- Virtual meetings and trainings on topics like nutrition, mental training, race tactics, etc.
- Spring MTB Camp in Moab, TBD – possibly: March 21-25
- Twice per week MTB practices, April – mid July, with possibility of morning practices in the summer
- Full travel race support (including bike transport and housing/food for juniors not staying with their parents)
- Soldier Hollow (Pan American Championships)
- Englewood Open
- Missoula XCT
- Mountain Bike Nationals
- If interest: US Open Fayetteville
- Local race support at key local MTB races
- Individualized training plans from Avout Racing Selects' Head Coach Ben Ollett at a discounted rate of $150/month or bring your own coach
CX Program – $2000 program fee
- Two free race level kits
- Sponsor support – discounts and free product
- Strength and Conditioning sessions twice per week for 10 weeks, January – March
- Team building activities
- Virtual meetings and trainings on topics like nutrition, mental training, race tactics, etc.
- Cyclocross mini-camp/clinic
- Twice per week CX practices, mid-August – CX Nationals
- Full travel race support (including bike transport and housing/food for juniors not staying with their parents)
- One CX race on the UCI/Pro calendar
- Cyclocross Nationals
- Local race support at local CX races
- Individualized training plans from Avout Racing Selects' Head Coach Ben Ollett at a discounted rate of $150/month or bring your own coach
**Inquire about discounts for athletes outside of the Greater Denver Metro Area
Applications are being accepted now through October 1, 2023, with notification by October 10, 2023. Apply HERE. Contact Jessica@AvoutRacing.com with any questions.
Scholarship Information
We offer both need-based and merit-based scholarships.
About Head Coach Ben Ollett
Avout Racing is honored and excited to announce Ben Ollett as our Avout Racing Selects Program Head Coach. The Selects Program is Avout Racing’s national juniors travel program with top level athletes selected from local and national applicants. Ben brings extensive experience coaching elite athletes and juniors of all levels and has been awarded the Order of Ikkos Medal for his excellence in coaching by the United States Olympic Committee. He coached athletes to the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio de Janeiro 2016, including coaching Georgia Gould to a bronze medal in XC MTB. Ben also coached cyclists to a total of 27 National Championships in MTB, CX, and Road. He has been the Head Coach of the Denver Dynamo cycling team and runs the Middle and High School MTB programs at Denver Academy. Ben is passionate about building community and developing athletes for the long term. Ben has an undergrad degree in Exercise Physiology from Rutgers University and a Masters in Sports Pedagogy from the University of Northern Colorado.
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