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National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) Youth Mountain Biking Leagues include events, racing, and team practices for young riders. The program also offers NICA Coach Education, Teen Trail Corps, NICA GRiT, NICA Adventure, trail stewardship, and initiatives to get more girls and women on bikes.
The National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) started in Berkeley, California, in 2009 as a high school race league in California and has grown to a network of leagues implementing a wide range of youth development programs. NICA’s 33 leagues provide infrastructure, services, events, and leadership for 1,055 teams across the country, and its leagues span the country, offering local programs for youth across 30 states. NICA supports a network of over 25,000 young riders and 15,000 adult coaches, and engages entire families, including supportive parent volunteers and coaches who ride along with teams.
NICA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission that uses mountain bikes as a tool to build strong minds, bodies, character, and community, and describes bikes as powerful tools to build strength, resilience, and character within a supportive community. Through local teams, trained coaches, and events, NICA states that it helps young people thrive both on and off the bike, building confidence, leadership, friendships, and making the world a better place. NICA describes its approach as having no selections and no sidelines, with everyone riding and training together in an inclusive “challenge by choice” team environment, and notes that its programs eschew virtual for reality to get kids off screens, outside, active, and connected. NICA also describes itself as intentionally inclusive, built to welcome and engage all, and as reimagining youth sports so that all kids have a place to ride, make friends, challenge themselves, and lead a healthy lifestyle.
NICA’s programs include trail stewardship and Teen Trail Corps, through which student-athletes participate in trail work days, stewardship projects, and advocacy efforts for better bike access. In 2025, the NICA community gave back more than 58,000 hours through Teen Trail Corps programs across the country.
NICA’s leadership team includes NICA President Amanda Carey, Senior Technology Manager Tony, and New League Inquiries contact Melissa Davies, along with various league directors and executive directors listed under NICA Affiliate Leagues, NICA Chapter Leagues, NICA Emerging Leagues, and NICA Project Leagues.
One NICA parent says that being on the NICA team has boosted their son’s confidence and given him joy, and that biking has been one of the best things they have done. Oregon League photographer and NICA supporter Katie Sox describes NICA as doing a favor to the cycling industry, youth sports, and society, and says the program creates a space where lifelong cyclists are born, personal growth is fostered, and people participate at the level that suits them, with benefits for student-athletes, coaches, and families. A NICA social media post highlights Senior Technology Manager Tony’s work supporting coaches, student-athletes, volunteers, and leagues across the country, and notes that he co-founded Hoodland Trails, a nonprofit trail organization leading stewardship efforts for mountain bike trails in Oregon’s Mt. Hood National Forest.
Last updated June 22, 2026.
The National Interscholastic Cycling Association (NICA) started in Berkeley, California, in 2009 as a high school race league in California and has grown to a network of leagues implementing a wide range of youth development programs. NICA’s 33 leagues provide infrastructure, services, events, and leadership for 1,055 teams across the country, and its leagues span the country, offering local programs for youth across 30 states. NICA supports a network of over 25,000 young riders and 15,000 adult coaches, and engages entire families, including supportive parent volunteers and coaches who ride along with teams.
NICA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission that uses mountain bikes as a tool to build strong minds, bodies, character, and community, and describes bikes as powerful tools to build strength, resilience, and character within a supportive community. Through local teams, trained coaches, and events, NICA states that it helps young people thrive both on and off the bike, building confidence, leadership, friendships, and making the world a better place. NICA describes its approach as having no selections and no sidelines, with everyone riding and training together in an inclusive “challenge by choice” team environment, and notes that its programs eschew virtual for reality to get kids off screens, outside, active, and connected. NICA also describes itself as intentionally inclusive, built to welcome and engage all, and as reimagining youth sports so that all kids have a place to ride, make friends, challenge themselves, and lead a healthy lifestyle.
NICA’s programs include trail stewardship and Teen Trail Corps, through which student-athletes participate in trail work days, stewardship projects, and advocacy efforts for better bike access. In 2025, the NICA community gave back more than 58,000 hours through Teen Trail Corps programs across the country.
NICA’s leadership team includes NICA President Amanda Carey, Senior Technology Manager Tony, and New League Inquiries contact Melissa Davies, along with various league directors and executive directors listed under NICA Affiliate Leagues, NICA Chapter Leagues, NICA Emerging Leagues, and NICA Project Leagues.
One NICA parent says that being on the NICA team has boosted their son’s confidence and given him joy, and that biking has been one of the best things they have done. Oregon League photographer and NICA supporter Katie Sox describes NICA as doing a favor to the cycling industry, youth sports, and society, and says the program creates a space where lifelong cyclists are born, personal growth is fostered, and people participate at the level that suits them, with benefits for student-athletes, coaches, and families. A NICA social media post highlights Senior Technology Manager Tony’s work supporting coaches, student-athletes, volunteers, and leagues across the country, and notes that he co-founded Hoodland Trails, a nonprofit trail organization leading stewardship efforts for mountain bike trails in Oregon’s Mt. Hood National Forest.
Last updated June 22, 2026.
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