By Shannon Lukens for Steamboat Radio News. Courtesy photos.
The Steamboat Springs High School Mountain Bike team is now 3-0, after winning the Yampa Division again, at the Colorado High School Cycling League competition in Eagle over the weekend. The local team had 14 top-10 finishes. Results are below.
Press Release from Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club; Sept. 29, 2026.
Steamboat Springs High School Mountain Bike Team Goes 3-0, Winning Haymaker Classic in Eagle, Colorado
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. – The Steamboat Springs High School mountain bike team is now 3-0 on the season after winning the Colorado High School Cycling League Yampa Division 1 team competition at the Haymaker Classic in Eagle on Saturday.
Steamboat scored 7,697 points, finishing ahead of Boulder with 7,359 and Summit with 7,008. The victory gives Steamboat three consecutive Division 1 wins to open the four-race 2026 regular season. The team posted nine podium finishes and 14 top-10 results, increasing its total points from one of the best showings ever two weeks ago in Steamboat.
The Haymaker Classic course travels over high desert terrain, covering 6 miles and 600 feet of climbing on mostly narrow singletrack trails, culminating in the notorious Corkscrew descent. Varsity riders raced three laps, while all other divisions raced two laps.
The varsity team had another impressive day, with the boys taking two podium spots. Quinn Dressen narrowly missed the win in another sprint finish with Taavi Snapp of Centaurus, finishing second.
Odin GrubenOdin Gruben placed third, and Jackson Rosencrantz finished an impressive eighth after suffering a crash on the first lap.
The varsity girls again dominated with three podium results. Whitney Warnke, Lucia Magnotta and Sydney Soard finished second, third and fourth, respectively.
Junior Ellis Dressendorfer had her best performance to date, finishing eighth in junior varsity. Junior Della Cunningham showed tremendous grit and mental toughness, fighting through a crash right at the start that caused her saddle to twist awkwardly, making it hard to pedal efficiently. She held on for 18th in the junior varsity girls division.
Robbie Wodnik had one of the best moves of the day, gap jumping the berm on the Corkscrew descent and eliciting huge cheers from spectators.
The weekend also featured the Middle School Mayhem race, a new initiative from the Colorado League to encourage seventh and eighth graders to get out and race. Eighth grader Anderson Agopian finished third, while seventh grader Quintin Biagi took fifth to round out the podium.
The team is now setting its sights on the Yampa Division 1 Regional Championship in Cañon City in two weeks, with the State Championships October 24–25, 2026 in Glenwood Springs.
The Steamboat Springs High School Mountain Bike Team is run through Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club. The Colorado High School Cycling League, now in its 17th season, consists of more than 160 high schools. The 2026 race series has four regions: Yampa, Crystal, Piedra, and Platte. Steamboat Springs High School students and Steamboat Mountain School students race in the Yampa division. The Colorado League facilitates the development of interscholastic mountain bike cycling teams for grades 9-12. The program promotes positive youth development through interscholastic mountain biking for high school students in Colorado, southern Wyoming, northern New Mexico, and Spearfish, South Dakota.
CO MTB League: Haymaker Classic – Yampa Division Steamboat Athletes
Varsity Girls
Place Name Grade Time
2 Whitney Warnke 12 1:20:01.39
3 Lucia Magnotta 11 1:22:05.35
4 Sydney Soard 11 1:22:08.89
13 Allie Reznicek 12 1:26:48.59
14 Lindsay Berke 12 1:27:09.09
Varsity Boys
Place Name Grade Time
2 Quinn Dressen 11 1:10:33.84
3 Odin Gruben 11 1:11:06.48
8 Jackson Rosencrantz 12 1:14:00.02
12 Robbie Wodnik 11 1:15:46.58
15 Henry Davis 11 1:17:07.92
27 Oscar Libin 12 1:25:28.68
28 Soren Shepherd 11 1:25:48.32
JV Girls
Place Name Grade Time
4 Samara Lambert 10 55:10.97
8 Ellis Dressendorfer 11 58:06.51
18 Della Cunningham 11 1:07:00.76
DNF Zoe Chase 12 DNF
JV Boys
Place Name Grade Time
7 Jayden Hargis 10 50:43.00
32 Daniel Crocker 11 56:48.39
40 Colin Clark 12 58:20.72
58 Morgan Garrett 12 1:00:44.28
Sophomore Girls
Place Name Grade Time
16 Zoe Finnegan 10 1:09:12.92
Sophomore Boys
Place Name Grade Time
2 Andrew Melzer 10 49:01.55
3 Fritz Gamber 10 49:02.10
8 Nicholas Tanyuk 10 51:13.44
12 Oliver Nylen 10 51:56.80
20 Miles Chase 10 54:10.85
41 Mason Sloop 10 59:45.81
Freshman Girls
Place Name Grade Time
12 Sasha Wodnik 9 1:04:57.60
16 Charlotte Linford 9 1:07:52.60
Freshman Boys
Place Name Grade Time
3 Paddock Whitten 9 53:57.62
8 Grip Goldstein 9 56:45.92
14 Emmett Neely 9 57:49.06
38 Archer Middleton 9 1:04:35.52
39 Calvin Higgins 9 1:04:38.23
Middle School Mayhem Boys
Place Name Grade Time
3 Anderson Agopian 8 14:57.19
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