Northern Kentucky cyclists Adelise and Carden Bozeman where among eight top-10 finishes at the 2026 National Interscholastic Cycling Association Central Regional Festival and Championships, held November 7–8 at Centennial Park in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
The Kentucky Interscholastic Cycling League (KY NICA) joined riders, coaches, and families from 12 NICA state leagues for the weekend and led the event’s GRiT (Girls Riding Together) programming, where KY NICA organized a panel of professional women from the cycling and outdoor industries, giving student-athletes a chance to see women leading in these fields and picture their own futures there.
KY NICA is a nonprofit youth development league that builds strong minds, strong bodies, strong character, and communities, using mountain biking as the tool. As one of 33 NICA leagues across the country, it gives Kentucky students in grades 5 through 12 a place to ride, race, and grow, and it welcomes riders of every experience level.
NICA Central Regionals brought together 12 leagues from across the heartland: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin. This was NICA’s second Central Regional event, and one of three Regionals NICA hosted across the country in 2026, joining Eastern Regionals in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the first-ever Western Regionals in St. George, Utah.
Kentucky student-athletes earned eight top-10 finishes across the Varsity and JV categories, led by Campbell County’s Adelise Bozeman who won the JV1 Girls division.
Kentucky Atheletes:
• Adelise Bozeman, Campbell County (NKY Roots Campbell Composite): 1st, JV1 Girls
• Carden Bozeman, Campbell County (NKY Roots Campbell Composite): 4th, Varsity Boys
• Jonathon Clark, Hardin County (Hardin-Elizabethtown Stampede): 4th, JV1 Boys
• Avery Fortenberry, Hardin County (Hardin-Elizabethtown Stampede): 6th, Varsity Girls
• Evangeline Fortenberry, Hardin County (Hardin-Elizabethtown Stampede): 6th, JV2 Girls
• Raylee Rothrock, McCracken County (McCracken County Mustangs): 7th, JV1 Girls
• Eli Tabb, Hardin County (Hardin-Elizabethtown Stampede): 10th, JV2 Boys
• Chloe Sharp, Marshall County (Marshall County High School MTB Team): 10th, JV3 Girls
Kentucky also finished second among the 12 leagues for the Strong Body Award, one of NICA’s new Spirit of NICA Awards, which honors the highest point-scoring league at Regionals. Because every rider’s finish earns points for their league, each Kentucky student-athlete who crossed the finish line contributed to that second-place result.
Full results are available at my.raceresult.com/433738.