So take that, world. Oregon is getting all up in your CX grill with a high-school development league:

http://bikeportland.org/2010/06/21/obra-to-debut-high-school-cyclocross-program-this-fall/

Sugahara says the High School Training and Racing Program will be organized like a “club sport” with volunteer coaches and trainers. He envisions each participating school would field teams of 4-8 students and training clinics would be held on school grounds.

“Our main goal is to make this a game-changer for cycling throughout the state by legitimizing it as a major high school sport like football or basketball.”
— Kenji Sugahara, Executive Director of OBRA

OBRA plans a three-race series in 2010 that will happen in September, with the inaugural championships occurring over Thanksgiving weekend. Also working on the project are Rick Potestio, John Myers, and Brad Ross — all of whom have been instrumental in developing the popular Cross Crusade into the largest cyclocross series (in terms of participation) in the world. Potestio, Myers, and Ross are working on a video and workbook that will serve as a coaches handbook.

As cool as this is, I worry that attendance at each round of the Cross Crusade will soon grow to the point that the races will take over the entire weekend, instead of just Sundays. Is that a bad thing? For the cyclocross dogs among us, not so much. But the families? Won’t someone think of the families??