2025-2026 CASTEEL MTB CLUB

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Casteel MTB is an approved club through Casteel Jr High & High School and CUSD for 7th-12th grade students. We operate to spread the love of cycling with the next generation, provide a place for students to meet and interact with fellow riders, ask questions, get information on our local cycling community, and provide up to four events for our club members to meet off campus and ride together. 

We are excited to offer the following Club Experience to our 2025-2026 club members through Casteel/CUSD:

• Casteel MTB enduro jersey
• Four off campus club events
• Exclusive Casteel MTB Slack channel access
• $25 participation fee paid via Infinite Campus

REGISTRATION: Club registration will open in September 2025, with a team meeting scheduled in September as well. Stay tuned for specific dates and follow along on Instagram for updates.

RACES (OPTIONAL): Casteel MTB participates with an unaffiliated 501(c)(3) organization, AZ NICA, a state league of NICA (National Interscholastic Cycling Association). Since mountain biking is not an Arizona school sanctioned sport, AZ NICA provides an interscholastic league for our student-athletes to participate and race in, alongside other schools and student-athletes. 

There are 5 races organized by AZ NICA, where Casteel MTB will compete against other schools and composite teams across the state of Arizona. Students are not required to race. There are additional registration fees ($125 to participate in AZ NICA events and races) and race fees ($150 for the series, or $50 per race) should students decide to race with AZ NICA. Those fees are payable directly to AZ NICA. We provide race support/pit presence at all AZ NICA Races.

For mountain bike enthusiasts who want to get together with a group and practice building skills and endurance on the trails, riders have the opportunity to join Foundre Racing, a 501(c)(3) organization that is unaffiliated with Casteel/CUSD or AZ NICA. 

Foundre Racing was founded in 2019 to share the stoke by providing cycling opportunities to all levels of riders (beginner-advanced) in 2nd-12th grade. Registration opens for Foundre Racing from 10/6-10/17/25, with an informational meeting taking place on October 14th at the Queen Creek Library Annex, at 6 p.m.

Foundre Racing will be holding a two day a week practice schedule from Dec '25 - April '26 to accommodate youth riders during the Arizona mountain bike season. In addition to offering a structured practice schedule, Foundre Racing participates in and offers race support for the MBAA XC Race Series, The Cactus Cup, Aravaipa Rides, and various other non-interscholastic races in Arizona.

Many of our riders participate in both the Casteel MTB Club and Foundre Racing. It is not required to join both, but there is a lot of added value in  being a part of an awesome group of riders and their families!

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us!

All club communication takes place in Slack (desktop and mobile downloads available).  Once team registration concludes, we will send all club members an invite to join our Casteel MTB Slack Channel.  We encourage both riders and their parents to join.