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Ex-Lion caps cycling season at national championships
Texas A&M University cyclist and 2006 McKinney High graduate Chad Haga leads a pack of riders into a turn at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships in Fort Collins, Colo. He finished 56th overall. Photo Courtesy C. Haga Photography
Chad Haga always wanted to ride in the Rocky Mountains, though he never figured the chance would come at the biggest race of his life.
Haga, a 2006 graduate of McKinney High, and teammate Devin Carroll of Houston represented Texas A&M University at the 2008 USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships in Fort Collins, Colorado. The former Lion placed 56th overall in a race that featured 150 of the nation’s top collegiate cyclists, only 112 of which finished the race.
“That was by far the hardest race I have ever done,” Haga said.
“Just a little something to be excited about amidst all the suffering,” Haga said, who had nothing in the tank heading into the final climb of the race.
“This climb was probably a grade of 18 percent, and I got over it by willpower alone,” he said.”
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