CARSON, Calif. (Monday, March 14, 2016) – StubHub Center is set to host the premiere event of the World Cycling League and its high-speed bicycle racing in a new, fan-friendly format this Friday, March 18, and Saturday, March 19, at the VELO Sports Center. Tickets, starting as low as $10, can be purchased here.

Debuting at StubHub Center, the World Cycling League presents head-to-head track cycling competition on indoor velodromes as a highly entertaining, competitive team sport. TeamTrak, WCL’s unique format, features co-ed teams of top track racers, an easy to follow scoring system, innovative technology and both national and international teams.

The World Cycling League will be fielding six wholly-owned franchise teams. The inaugural teams are the home-state California Wave, Colorado Cyclones, Pennsylvania Lightning, and Connecticut Nor’Easters. Two international teams also will be part of the field, Dublin Thunder and Mexico Heat.

Each performance features twelve high speed races – seven for men and five for women – on the steeply-banked wooden velodrome at the VELO Sports Center. Races will be as short as two laps for sprinters and up to forty laps for endurance riders. Each of the six teams will field from one to four riders in each TeamTrak race with up to twenty-four riders on the track at once.

The World Cycling League is the first independently owned and funded indoor track cycling league. Financed by individual investors, the WCL has partnered with Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) to introduce WCL’s first event, the TeamTrak Premiere at AEG’s VELO Sports Center. The WCL is sanctioned as an invitational event to qualified track cyclists by USA Cycling, the official governing body of cycling in the United States.

Once established at the VELO Sports Center, currently the only indoor velodrome in the United States, the WCL intends to expand to some of the world’s eighty permanent indoor velodromes now in thirty countries. Most indoor velodromes host active cycling programs centered around Olympic development events that have limited fan appeal other than to hard core cycling enthusiasts.

 

WHO

Inaugural teams:

• California Wave
• Colorado Cyclones
• Pennsylvania Lightning
• Connecticut Nor’Easters
• Dublin Thunder
• Mexico Heat

WHAT

World Cycling League

The premiere event of the World Cycling League and its high-speed bicycle racing in a highly entertaining format. the World Cycling League presents head-to-head track cycling competition on indoor velodromes as a highly entertaining, competitive team sport. TeamTrak, WCL’s unique format, features co-ed teams of top track racers, an easy to follow scoring system, innovative technology and both national and international teams.

Tickets: www.stubhubcenter.com/events/detail/2016-world-cycling-league-premiere

WHEN

Friday, March 18

• 6:00 p.m. – Doors Open
• 7:30 p.m. – Teams Introduction and Opening Ceremonies
• 7:50 p.m. – First Event
• 10:00 p.m. – Awards Ceremony

Saturday, March 19

Afternoon

• 12:00 p.m. – Doors Open
• 1:30 p.m. – Teams Introduction and Opening Ceremonies
• 1:50 p.m. – First Event
• 4:00 p.m. – Awards Ceremony

Evening

• 6:00 p.m. – Doors Open
• 7:30 p.m. – Teams Introduction and Opening Ceremonies
• 7:50 p.m. – First Event
• 10:00 p.m. – Awards Ceremony

WHERE

StubHub Center’s VELO Sports Center

18400 Avalon Blvd.

Carson, CA 90746