The Steamboat Springs High School Mountain Bike team took home seven top-three finishes, multiple top-10 finishes and won the Yampa Division 1 category at the first race of their season on Saturday. The race was part of the Colorado High School Cycling League race series at the Cloud City Challenge in Leadville.

The team consisted of 35 riders from Steamboat High School and Steamboat Mountain School. Varsity riders raced three laps with all other categories racing two laps on the 6.2-mile loop.

It was a close race between Steamboat and Boulder, with Steamboat claiming the Division 1 title, finishing with 7,441 points to Boulder’s 7,428.

In varsity girls, junior Whitney Warnke placed second, while teammate Allie Reznicek finished 10th. The junior varsity girls added to the momentum, with sophomore Sydney Soard winning her race and sophomore Lucia Magnotta close behind in third. Junior Zoe Chase also cracked the top 10, finishing ninth.

On the junior varsity boys side, sophomore Quinn Dressen and junior Jackson Rosencrantz went one-two, with sophomore Robbie Wodnik adding a sixth-place finish.

The sophomore boys’ division also performed well. Odin Gruben placed third, followed by Fisher Beauregard in fifth, Henry Davis in sixth and Soren Shepherd in eighth.

Steamboat’s freshmen recorded a solid performance with Andrew Melzer finishing third in the boys’ time trial, Jayden Hargis taking fifth, and Oliver Nylen placing 20th. In the girls’ division, Samara Lambert took seventh and Zoe Finnegan placed 12th.

Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club oversees the Steamboat High School Mountain Bike team.