NMSU Triathlon Club — Our History and Past Competitions

The team rented a van and drove 17 hours overnight to the collegiate nationals race in Gulfport, Mississippi. This was another great experience for the team, with an ocean swim, low elevation, a flat bike, and flat run. Similar to Miami, the Olympic race has almost 1,000 entrants split among multiple waves. NMSU Triathlon Club had five representatives at the race: four athletes and one team photographer.

• Kyle Klawiter
• Trevon Del Ferraro
• Liam Boyden
• Colin Ross
• Photographer: Landon Stewart

Lake Havasu got purchased by another company and so the championships for the Mountain conference got moved to a new race in Austin Texas. The Triathlon Team took a large group of athletes to the race this year with one relay team, five individual athletes in the olympic, and a team photographer. We have a documentary about the race from the team photographer that can be watched by clicking on the link below!

• Kyle Klawiter
• Trevon Del Ferraro
• Liam Boyden
• Mauricio Cuartas
• Colin Ross
• Lauren Wong (Swim Leg)
• Justin Mirabel (Bike Leg)
• Jack Hallbeck (Run Leg)
• Photographer: Landon Stewart

Our first collegiate race of the season is usually the Pumpkinman Triathlon in late October. This year the race got cancelled due to the government shutdown closing all national parks. Originally, the team was going to take 12 people to the race, but when the race was cancelled that evaporated. To try and make the best out of the airbnb, Colin, Philip, and Landon travelled to Boulder City for a team photoshoot with the new uniforms. 

• Colin Ross
• Philip McLaughlin
• Photographer: Landon Stewart

To start off our semester we competed in the local Eagle in the Sun triathlon in El Paso. We gained a lot of new members in the fall semester and this was a great opportunity for everyone to come to a triathlon and participate in a relay. We had two relay teams and they took 1st and 2nd in the relay team competition, and our individual athlete was second in his age group.

• Colin Ross
• Liam Boyden (Swim Leg)
• Calvin Cox (Bike Leg)
• Trevon Del Ferraro (Run Leg)
• Lauren Wong (Swim Leg)
• Kyle Klawiter (Bike Leg)
• Philip McLaughlin (Run Leg)
• Photographer: Landon Stewart

We had a great showing at the Lobo Triathlon in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is a popular race that is close to home for many of our athletes, and we had six athletes compete in the race. The Lobo is a sprint triathlon hosted around the UNM campus and was a great first triathlon for several of our athletes (Jojo, Chloe, and Mauricio)! The race is a run, bike, swim format which is always interesting in the pool, but everyone had a great time!

• Mauricio Cuartas
• Chloe Bryson
• Philip McLaughlin
• Jonathan "Jojo" Leuenberger
• CJ Quintana
• Colin Ross
• Photographer: Landon Stewart

After competing in the conference race in Arizona, four members flew to Miami for the collegiate nationals competition. This was the largest race the team had ever been to with over 1000 entrants for the olympic race. Colin got extremely sick the night before the race and couldn't compete but was able to get some photos of the race. One of the unique features about this course is that the run course was hosted on the Homestead Miami speedway! It was a great team experience and the first time that NMSU had been present at a nationals race in over 10 years.

• CJ Quintana
• Jack Hallbeck
• Philip McLaughlin
• Colin Ross

The NMSU Triathlon Club travelled to Lake Havasu in Arizona for the Conference Championships to compete against other schools in the Mountain conference. We lined up against UofA, ASU, CU Boulder, University of Colorado, Grand Canyon University, BYU, and other big schools in the southwest. This was the first olympic triathlon for several of our athletes and the water in the canal was a frigid 55F. All of our athletes had sleveless wetsuits which were pretty rough in that temperature, but we all survived and had a great time.

• CJ Quintana
• Jack Hallbeck
• Philip McLaughlin
• Colin Ross
• Lela Waite
• Photographer: Landon Stewart