{"id":96413,"date":"2019-11-01T00:26:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T04:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=96413"},"modified":"2019-11-01T00:26:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T04:26:49","slug":"valley-preferred-cycling-center-awarded-2020-masters-and-para-track-national-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=96413","title":{"rendered":"Valley Preferred Cycling Center  Awarded 2020 Masters and Para Track National Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"> 2019 Elite and Junior National Champions and medalists\u00a0from the VPCC were celebrated in a special evening ceremony at the velodrome.\u00a0Photo @Matt Jones Photography<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Venue Partners with Discover Lehigh Valley on Successful Bid for Events<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>BREINIGSVILLE, Pennsylvania, October 31, 2019<\/strong>: \u00a0The Valley Preferred Cycling Center, working in close partnership with Discover Lehigh Valley, has been awarded the 2020 Masters and Para\u00a0Track National Championships. The events will take place June 30th through July 5th, 2020 with a more detailed schedule to be released at a later date.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0\u201cWe are very excited to welcome the Masters and Para-cycling communities to the Valley Preferred Cycling Center for what is sure to be a thrilling week of competition in the legendary concrete crater.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Lehigh Valley offers a wide array of family friendly activities, wonderful dining options and incredible road riding in addition to our iconic track. We are looking forward to sharing all of it with our guests.\u00a0\u00a0We have a particularly passionate masters racing community at the Valley Preferred Cycling Center &#8211; many of whom have just returned from\u00a0successful trips to the UCI Masters Track World Championships in Manchester, England-\u00a0\u00a0and we are looking forward to cheering them on on their home track. Having para-cycling athletes joining us is also incredibly exciting and we hope to use this as a springboard to offering more regular racing and training opportunities for para athletes at our venue\u201d said VPCC Executive Director Joan Hanscom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bree Nidds, Vice President of Sales for Discover\u00a0Lehigh Valley stated, &#8220;The Lehigh Valley is a premiere sports destination and welcoming athletes from all over the country for the Masters and Para Track National Championships in 2020 is a great honor. We look forward to celebrating the thrill of competition together\u00a0with our partners at the Velodrome and USA Cycling this year and hopefully beyond.&#8221; \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">For information about sponsorship opportunities or to learn more about the event please contact <a href=\"mailto:Info@thevelodrome.com\">Info@thevelodrome.com <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Information and image provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nValley Preferred Cycling Center<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thevelodrome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/thevelodrome.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-START-<\/code><br \/>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-END-<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/cycling-masters.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/96414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}