Florida ranked 12th in the national competition. Cyclists Chris Tarnowski, Phil Southerland, John Phillips, Maggie Shirley and Bree Ettinger represented UGA at the collegiate nationals. An omnium consists of a criterium, road race and time trial, and riders must complete all three events in order to place. I entrants completed the omnium. Shirley also finished 11th in the road race and 16th in the criterium.
Eleventh place is a phenomenal result considering the fierce competition.
The UGA men finished 20th in the team time trial with a time of 26 minutes. Phil Southerland and John Phillips placed 16th and 26th, respectively, in the omnium. Out of an initial field of 114 riders, only 71 Division I men qualified for omnium places. Tarnowski in the road race and Ettinger in the criterium. During the road race, men raced seven, nine-mile laps, with over 800 feet of climbing per lap at a peak altitude of 7,242 feet.