Great Scott!

Young British rider Tom Scott has embarked on an American odyssey as a collegiate racer

- 

It feels kind of weird to say my first national title is an American one, as someone who’s British,” Tom Scott tells Cycling Weekly.

The 21-year-old Sheffielder was first off in Marian University’s four-rider cyclo-cross relay-winning collegiate team in Arizona last month. How did he end up across the pond with a stars and stripes jersey? An idle Google search.

“I found a USA Cycling page that has all the colleges and universities that have a cycling programme,” he says. “I started scouring through results and previous collegiate national champs and found which teams were finishing higher up. I sent out a load of emails and ended up choosing Marian.”