Berkeley High School Mountain Bike Team

The BHS MTB Team won the NorCal League championship that year, and has fielded strong teams in many years since amidst increasingly tough competition (there are now 54 teams in NorCal alone). With the popularity of the sport soaring, Coach "Fritz" handed the Head Coach baton to Austin "Bobo" McInerny in 2003 so that Coach Fritz could focus on building the NorCal League full-time. Coach Fritz went on to build the SoCal League and then founded the National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) as an umbrella organization to propel the growth of the sport in high schools across the nation. NICA now has ten state leagues and thousands of high school MTB’ers nationwide. Head Coach Bobo led the Team to continued growth, glory, and general fun and excitement until 2008, when he handed leadership of the team over to Jared Prolo so that he could move into an assistant coach role and take on much more active responsibilities with the NorCal League and then with NICA as its first Director of Education Programs, in which he played a key role in developing the teaching materials and standards used to to launch new state leagues and to implement a robust national licensing program for coaches. We are extremely proud that Coach Bobo was named NICA's Executive Director and top officer in 2012. He is now leading the effort to foster the growth and development of high school mountain biking across the country. Meanwhile, the BHS MTB Team that he helped to grow and establish is continuing to spread the joy of mountain biking under Head Coach Nick Hoeper-Tomich. Our alumni include former state champions (see selected historical race results here), many who went on to race competitively in college and USA Cycling events, and most importantly hundreds of people who developed a lifelong love for mountain biking.