BMX riders US-bound for champs

• Published date: 25 April 2024
• Author: BMX
• Publication title: Te Awamutu Courier

The championships take place between May 12 and 18

Siblings Brooke, Sophie and Luca Penny, along with Tate Burdon and Baiden Prescott, have all qualified for the event by way of their top-eight rankings at last year’s New Zealand BMX National Championships in Tauranga.

Brooke (NZ2), Luca (NZ3), Sophie (NZ4), Baiden (NZ4) and Tate (NZ6) have been training and racing non-stop over the last six months to hone their skills and master their craft on many tracks around New Zealand in the hope of coming home from America with some great results.

At their home club, they have been at the track most weekdays, and on top of that, have been training on Saturdays with the other New Zealand riders heading to the world champs.

Any chance they get, they are back at the track or local velodrome for more practice sessions and battling among themselves to improve.

This trip to the world champs will be a first for Luca, Sophie, Baiden and Tate, so it will serve as a...