Smiles Sweet Shop FUNdraiser for Colton Composite!

Starting November 1st we'll begin our Holiday FUNdraiser with our local sponsor Smiles Sweet Shop in Fontana. Support your local High School Mountain Bike Team and a local business.

They sell gourmet sweets such as "Cheesecake Winks" and "Caramel Grins" made by hand to order.
Life is better with gourmet! Each order helps bring our Colton Composite team closer to our goals of providing race scholarships for any of our students who want to compete this season.

Order a delightful treat for yourself and for a friend. It's a simple pleasure with a lasting treasure!
TO ORDER: Contact Mr. Wallace at bloomingtoncycling@gmail.com or Smiles Sweet Shop directly, or order from a student athlete directly.

Here's a clip from "Fontana's Open For Business" featuring Smiles Sweet Shop.



Lots of action in the IE for cycling!

Colton Composite Team is expanding with assistants and coaches coming on board and it's great to see our network expanding. We are planning several pre-season events and specific information will be sent out very soon on those so keep watch!

We are now spending time and energy seeking out sponsors for our team so if you hav contacts or ideas please forward those on to us.

Special thnks to those donations we have received of cash and clothing! The team really benefits from your help.

If you are a team member please remember to come to the meetings every thursday. We have a LOT of new information to cover as things are moving quickly and our larger fundraising events are getting closer. YOU are the heart of the team and YOU need to be here and be involved. Can't wait to see all your faces when we hit the trail for the first time!

Lastly, check out this cool video of our sponsor Don's Bike Shop in Rialto as seen on http://www.inlandempireexplorer.com/:

Welcome to the 2011-2012 School Year! Raising team support begins now!

Help build the first H.S. Mountain Bike Team in the Colton District!

COLTON DISTRICT COMPOSITE TEAM NEEDS YOUR HELP!
We receive no money from the District and our kids are raising all the funds for the team equipment, insurance, race fees, materials, bike maintenance etc. As the head coach and sponsor for the team I receive no stipend for coaching and have been investing my own funds into a fleet of team bikes.

Please consider donating to or sponsoring our young athletes and make an impact in their lives. I truly believe this is a great program for students to be involved in! This is a Spring Semester Sport so we are in the building stage. All donations are tax ductible as are gifts in kind.

Be a part of our "Peloton", contact bloomingtoncycling@gmail.com :
Domestique: Bronze ($1-49),
                     Silver ($50–149)
                    Gold ($150-299)

Tête de la Course ($300–699)
Hors Catégorie ($700-999)
Maillot Jaune ( $1000+)

SEEKING BUSINESS PARTNERS AND ADVERTISERS:
Businesses who wish to advertise on our jerseys as sponsors of the team please contact me. Don't pass up this opportunity to advertise your local business to a target market. All donations are tax deductible.
Please email or call for this great opportunity for community partnership.
Contact bloomingtoncycling@gmail.com

WHAT WE NEED DONATED:
Good condition cycling clothing (shorts, jerseys, arm/leg warmers, cycling shoes)
Working mountain bikes (front shock preferred)
Spare bike parts such as brakes, cables, wheelsets, saddles, handlebars, flat pedals and clipless pedals
Rear wheel style bike trainers for our winter training indoors
26" mountain bike tires, 26x1.75 - 2.25 and innertubes
Helmets
Contact bloomingtoncycling@gmail.com


NEED FOR HELMETS:
All riders require helmets so gently used modern helmets can help get our riders started until they can buy their own (Must have never been crashed or impacted).
Approved Helmets meet one of the following standards:
(1) American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standard Z90.4
(2) Snell Memorial Foundation Standard "B" or "N" series
(3) American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standard F-1447
(4) U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) standard for bicycle helmets
(5) European Committee for Standardization (CE EN1078) standard for bicycle helmets 


Contact bloomingtoncycling@gmail.com

Congratulations to our Team leaders!

Congratulations to those students chosen as our Team leaders in Thursday's meeting.
President: Hugo
Treasurer: Isaac
Secretary: Amber
Student Council Rep: Antonio

Those other team members are no less importatnt and will be called on to assist in fundraising, setups, activities and races but these individuals will be our Team ambassadors.

We covered a lot of material in the meeting this thursday, here is a recap of the meeting minutes:

1. Team photo taken, will need to get photos of the absent team members as well.

2. Smiles Sweet Shop is our first local sponsor and we will be partnering with them for fundraising soon.

3. Budget - we raised enough to pay for Head coach participation in the League Leadership Summit and are on our way to raising enough for the Team registration. Still more to go so share any ideas and contacts you may have.

4. Elections were conducted for our ASB requirements.

5. Article "Lost Thoughts" was distributed, come pick one up if you were absent. Head injuries are no laughing matter, always wear your helmet!

6. Fundraising events -
      November Gourmet Sweets Fundraising - Everyone needs to sell as many as they can to support the team.
      November 13 Cyclocross Sales Booth. We need you to set aside the time on Sunday to come with us and sell drinks and food at the Cyclocross race in Chino. Bring your family so they can have some fun watching as well! It's a nice 'day at the park'.

7. Bloomington Cycling is now part of the larger "COLTON COMPOSITE" Mountain Bike Team. This means BHS, CHS and GTHS students will be able to race as ONE TEAM, the "COLTON COMPOSITE" team. We'll train together and race together representing our Colton District and our School. I'll be contacting CHS to see if there are teachers and students who will be joining us this year.

What you need to do?
1. See me if you were absent for photo and article to read.
2. Set time aside to help on Nov 13 at Cyclocross in Chino.

Here's a sample logo we may use.

Bloomington Cycling a part of Colton District Composite!

Announcement!
The Mountian Bike Team is starting here at Bloomington High school but will be registering with the SoCal League as a "District Composite Team". After some discussion I think this will be a better option for our team's first few years competing in the SoCal League.

What this means is that the Mountain Bike Team will pull from all three high schools in the Colton Joint Unified School District. Bloomington HS, Colton HS and (next year) Grand Terrace HS students will participate, train and race as the Colton District Composite Team. Over the next three years we will work to build up each school site to have a coach and racers as a sustainable school site team.

I'm excited about this opportunity for our students at Bloomington and Colton as well as Grand Terrace next year. Our ability to fundraise will be greater, our community exposure will be greater, our ability to expose students to the sport of cycling will be greater. Our ability to promote healthy lifestyle choices among the students in our entire district is much greater as well. Funding remains the same, and any materials purchased by the Team, such as jerseys, helmets, bikes etc will be of a common design so as to maximize our resources. This is a much smarter way to use the resources we have to reach as many students as possible.

In practical terms, there will be little change for the immediate future. As the head coach I am located at Bloomington High School which will serve as our home base. I will be sending information to the other schools to generate participation among the staff and students.

So what do we do now? Spread the word! I'll be trying to recruit assistant coaches from Colton High School who will be able to spread the word to the CHS student body. Other than that we'll keep pushing forward with the team plans and the fundraising and seeking sponsors for the Colton District Composite Mountain bike Team.

Get out there, strap on your helmet and RIDE HARD!