Our Mission:
The mission of the Tam Mountain Bike Race Team is to provide a fun, safe, and friendly team environment to help student athletes achieve both competitive and non-competitive goals by riding and racing mountain bikes. Through training and competition, we aim to promote individual growth, fellowship within the team, and rapport within the biking community. We aspire to create a lifelong love of mountain biking and a healthy, active lifestyle.
ABOUT US
Tam Mountain Bike Race Team is a co-ed school club that is open to all students at Tamalpais High School. The team is part of the NorCal High School Cycling League (NorCal) and National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA). The NorCal league encompasses about 20 different high-school teams and over 500 student athletes across Northern California. NorCal league organizes 5 race weekend events where all the teams meet to compete against each other in a festive and communal environment.
TEAM HISTORY
The Tam High MTB team was started in 2004 by Jon Hartquist, Tam High Social Studies teacher and local shredder. Hartquist had five boys who wanted to race in the new high school mountain bike league: the NorCal League which was founded in 2001 by a Berkeley High teacher. Their first “jerseys” were t-shirts from one of our original sponsors, Wilderness Trail Bikes (WTB).
(A deeper history of the team is currently in the works.)
