NICA GRiT Nebraska

2026 SheSends Foundation x NICA GRiT Grant applications are officially OPEN! 🚀

Are you ready to grow the GRiT community in your league or team? This grant helps fuel projects that:
✅ Recruit new female student-athletes and coaches
✅ Retain current riders and coaches through skill-building & community
✅ Develop female coach leadership and pathways to Head Coach & Coach Supporter roles

📅 Deadline: Spring events → Apply by Oct 15, 2025

🔑 Remember: funding must directly support recruitment, retention, or coach development.

Let’s keep building spaces where more girls and women feel welcome, confident, and ready to ride. 🙌

🔗 Apply now: https://wkf.ms/4hsmowV

📸: Montana League

☀️🌡️ Well, folks… Mother Nature decided to crank up the thermostat, and the sun is just showing off at this point. 😎

So, we’ve made a few tweaks to our Saturday schedule to keep everyone from melting into a puddle. 💦

Check out the new plan, bring your water bottles, and let’s show the weather who’s boss.

Race Flyer🔗: https://tinyurl.com/44bvz77r

Time Trial Weekend is just TWO WEEKS away!

Throw on your best Hawaiian shirt for our GRiT pre-ride on Saturday.

Then, join us in a league wide water fight all weekend! Bring your own water gun and then stop by the GRiT tent anytime on Saturday and Sunday to grab a bracelet so everyone knows your in the water fight!

📣 Get those applications in today!!

🚴‍♀️ Calling All Female Athletes!
Do you have passion for the sport and at least one year in the league? Apply to become a GRiT Ambassador and help inspire more girls to ride, race, and love mountain biking!

💬 Coaches – If you know an athlete who embodies leadership, enthusiasm, and inclusivity, encourage her to apply. Sometimes the best ambassadors don’t realize how inspiring they are!

📩 Applications are due 8/1—let’s grow the ride together!

🔗 https://forms.gle/YTRkjW6RJuY3dk896

🚴‍♀️ Calling All Female Athletes!
Do you have passion for the sport and at least one year in the league? Apply to become a GRiT Ambassador and help inspire more girls to ride, race, and love mountain biking!

💬 Coaches – If you know an athlete who embodies leadership, enthusiasm, and inclusivity, encourage her to apply. Sometimes the best ambassadors don’t realize how inspiring they are!

📩 Applications are due 8/1—let’s grow the ride together!

🔗 https://forms.gle/YTRkjW6RJuY3dk896

Stock up for the Fourth of July + Support Kids on Bikes!! 🎆

P.S. It’s not too late to sign up to volunteer in the tent!

Will YOU be one of the 1,000 women riding Gravel Worlds this August?!

WE’RE AT 400 OF OUR 1000 Women of Gravel Goal, and we can’t do it without YOU! 🙌💪

Let’s come together to make Gravel Worlds 2025 the largest gathering of women on dirt ever!

For every woman who joins, $10 will be donated to the .nebraska program... That’s $10,000 to help get more girls on bikes and growing the community we love.

Whether you run, bike, tri, or volunteer, YOU count toward this goal.

Will you be one of the 1000? We need you, your passion, and your spirit to make it happen.

Got a cycling team ready to bring the crew? Send us a message for a team discount. Let’s grow this movement together!

Did you know that $10 will be donated to GRiT for every female identifying rider that registers for Gravel Worlds?

Thanks for helping us get !

We had a blast this weekend at the GRiT Retreat! Let's keep the momentum rolling – below is the link for the application for the GRiT Ambassador program.

If you’re ready to lead the charge, please apply to join us as a GRiT Ambassador.

Who can be a GRiT Ambassador?
Any female rider in the league!

What are the requirements?
The only requirement is passion for the sport and one year of experience in the league.

What is involved in being a GRiT Ambassador?
You'll help get female riders involved at race weekends, plan awesome events for our GRiT tent and help lift up all our amazing GRiT riders!

Coaches, please share with anyone on your team that you think would be a great leader for our GRiT program!

Link to Apply: https://forms.gle/4ygJZhaH3Z3LEvoc7

We were absolutely pumped to have all these amazing women and girls join us for an epic day of rock climbing, ropes course challenges, and checking out Adam’s Park! 🚲