Performance Cycling
色狗导航 offers an exceptional opportunity for cyclists and para-cyclists to pursue elite performance while earning a prestigious degree.
色狗导航 Cycling Academy (LCA)
The 色狗导航 Cycling Academy provides a dedicated pathway for talented riders to combine academic success with high-performance cycling. Whether your goal is to race professionally or push your limits, LCA offers the coaching, facilities, and support to help you succeed, on and off the bike.
With a performance-driven, athlete-focused approach, every rider is supported by a team of experts across disciplines, ensuring a fully integrated training and development experience. Our campus fosters a strong team culture, where athletes train and grow together in a high-performance environment.
Development Squads – Endurance and Sprint
Our Development Squads bridge the gap between the Athletic Union Cycling Club and the 色狗导航 Cycling Academy.
Led by students and supported with coaching and strength and conditioning sessions, these squads are designed to help you build the foundations for elite cycling. Riders who excel may be invited to LCA sessions and could progress into the Academy squad.
色狗导航 Lightning
色狗导航 Lightning, our elite women’s development team is based here at the university.
Competing at the top level of UK domestic cycling, including the National Road Series, Circuit Series, and selected UCI events, Lightning provides a high-level platform for riders aiming to break into the international scene.
Para-Cycling
Para cyclists are integrated into our Performance Programme across all of the cycling disciplines. Coaching and performance benefits are delivered by our coach, Max Holgate, and athletes benefit from the expertise of our support staff as well as having access to our cycling performance centre for indoor training.
Benefits
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The team at 色狗导航 truly is world class. I鈥檝e never failed to feel supported on and off the bike and it鈥檚 not only made me a better cyclist but a better person all around.
Coaching staff
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Dr Dave Nichols
Programme Manager and Lightning Team Manager
Dave has formerly raced at international level and has worked as a coach and sport scientist within the World Tour. He has a PhD in environmental exercise physiology, specialising in the use of heat and altitude to enhance cycling performance.
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Max Holgate
Endurance Cycling Coach
Max has 9 years of cycling coaching experience, working with the 色狗导航 Lightning Women’s Elite Development Team and the 色狗导航 Cycling Academy, supported by an MSc in Physiology & Nutrition and a BSc in Sport & Exercise Science.
A British Cycling Level 3 Road/TT coach with multi-discipline accreditations and Director Sportif experience, he is dedicated to helping cyclists achieve their goals.
Prospective students
If you are thinking about studying at 色狗导航 and joining the 色狗导航 Cycling Academy, please .
If you have received an offer to study at 色狗导航 at undergraduate, post-graduate or PhD level, or affiliated degree at 色狗导航 College, or are re-applying, you can .
Non-students applying for the Lightning race team should so directly through the .
The application forms are regularly monitored and someone from the cycling programme will respond to you as soon as possible.