Mitch Hoke, a 2006 graduate of Colorado Rocky Mountain School from Evergreen, Colorado, has been nominated by USA Cycling to represent the United States at the UCI World Mountain Bike Championship Races in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec. He will join the five other top U23 cross-country riders the race on September 3, 2010. The weekend before the Championship races, he will compete in the final World Cup race of the season at Windham, New York.
Mitch, who made the podium twice at the recent US National Mountain Bike Championship in Sol Vista Colorado, was a member of the CRMS state championship team during high school. He began his racing career at the school and continued to compete competitively while a student at Colorado College where he will graduate in December of this year with a degree in Environmental Science. During high school Mitch did his three-week senior project working with an organization that provides bikes for people without cars in New Orleans just a few months after the Katrina disaster. Mitch is sponsored by Tokyo Joes as well as Cliff Bars for his cyclocross racing. He currently works for Bicycle Outfitters in Evergreen and spent two summers with Ute City Cycles in Aspen and Carbondale.
