Denzel Stein (Desoto, Texas.), – received automatic nominations to the funded team while Joey Bradford (Monterey, Calif.) earned the coaches selection. Long and Herman were automatically selected as the top two riders in the current 2009 USA Cycling BMX Power Rankings in the U23 category while Stein was atop the Junior Men rankings.
Four women – Arielle Martin (Spanaway, Wash.), Alise Post (Saint Cloud, Minn.), Brooke Crain (Visalia, Calif.), and Taylor Wolcott (Roseville, Calif.), were all selected as coaches’ picks. Martin, the 2009 Overall Women’s Supercross champion leads this group as the most experienced rider while Post will be entering her fourth Supercross World Cup competition. Both Crain and Wolcott are graduates of the new USA Cycling Junior Development program where they spent extensive time training at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif. The youngest of the women at 16 years of age, this will be Crain and Wolcott’s first attempt at racing the Supercross World Cup series
UCI BMX Supercross World Cup Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Aug 21-12, 2009
USA Cycling BMX Funded Team:
Men
Nicholas Long (Lakeside, Calif.)
David Herman (Wheat Ridge, Colo.)
Denzel Stein (Desoto, Texas)
Joey Bradford (Monterey, Calif.)
Women
Arielle Martin (Spanaway, Wash.)
Alise Post (Saint Cloud, Minn.)
Brooke Crain (Visalia, Calif.)
Taylor Wolcott (Roseville, Calif.)
Eight named to funded team for USA Cycling BMX World Cup in Pietermaritzburg
Jul 17, 2009
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USA Cycling announced today the eight athletes it will send to the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup event in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on August 21-22. The Pietermaritzburg Supercross is the second of four UCI BMX Supercross events in 2009 and will also serve as the first of 16 races that factor into the 2010 USA Cycling BMX Power Rankings for both the elite men and women categories. This is also the same venue that will host the 2010 UCI BMX World Championships on July 21-25, 2010. Four men – Nicholas Long (Lakeside, Calif.), David Herman (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), and 
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