Youth Race Team 2025
Youth Team
At Clancy Briggs, we’re passionate about developing young riders and helping them fall in love with the sport. That’s why, in 2025, we’re proud to support several U16 & U14 riders—not just with free kit, but with free 1:1 coaching from our ex-pro-racer coaches, Graham & Ali.
Our coaching is about more than just building fitness; we believe in developing well-rounded cyclists by focusing on essential skills and race tactics. While performance isn’t our only priority, we come from a racing background and have a strong desire to see more young riders competing.
From our Doncaster home track, we run weekly race training sessions every Wednesday evening. These dynamic group sessions, open to riders aged 10–18, offer the perfect environment to develop tactical awareness, bike-handling skills, and racing confidence alongside their physical conditioning. More than just an extra workout, these sessions play a vital role in our coaching approach—allowing us to work with riders in real time, provide immediate feedback on skills and tactics, and tailor our 1:1 coaching to their individual needs. This seamless integration of group and personal coaching ensures our riders grow into smarter, stronger, and more confident cyclists.
Read on to learn more about our 2025 youth team riders and our exciting plans for the future of our race team.
Riders
Charlie Priest
Age:14
Rider Type: Sprinter/ all rounder
Favourite Rider: MVDP
What are you most excited about in 2025?: Working as part of a team.
One interesting fact about you: I learnt to ride my bike without stabilisers before my 3rd birthday.
Tillie Jennings
Age: 12
Rider Type: All rounder
Favourite Rider: Mark Cavendish
What are you most excited about in 2025?: Racing with my friends.
One interesting fact about you: Learnt to ride my bike without stabilisers when I was just 3!
Alfie Nott
Age: 15
Rider Type: Climber/ all rounder
Favourite Rider: Tadej Pogacar
What are you most excited about in 2025?: Racing for Clancy Briggs & getting stuck into loads of racing!
One interesting fact about you: I once turned up to a stage of the TDF a day early by accident.
Isaac Hardcastle
Age: 15
Favourite Rider: Nino Schurter
What are you most excited about in 2025?: Racing the National MTB series.
One interesting fact about you: I could ride my balance bike before I could walk!
Jude Alcock
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Ryan Hailstone
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Tom Cragg
Age: 15
Rider Type: All rounder (but especially love going up hills)
Favourite Rider: Thibau Nys
What are you most excited about in 2025?: Racing for Clancy Briggs at regional & national races.
One interesting fact about you: I went out to Benidorm cx world cup to see how fast the pro's actually are in real life!
Graham’s thoughts.
What’s next for the team?
With the race season just starting, you’ll be seeing Clancy Briggs Jerseys regularly at youth races across the country. We’ve got riders across a range of disciplines, including Road, Track and MTB. Our aim is to continue supporting the riders through our coaching, there'll likely be a few races where some of our seniors or u23 will also be racing & we’re keen to try to link the teams up where possible and create that community & pool of shared knowledge.
Looking further ahead we see this as the start of an exciting long-term project, which along with our u23 team is the start of our ClancyBriggs Pathway, we’d like to be able to (continue) to provide top notch coaching along with racing opportunities and perhaps even material support to a range of riders in multi disciplines.
While we have limited funded places available (something we’d like to increase in future years), anyone can join Clancy Briggs Club & race in our colours, access our Wednesday coaching sessions or our 1:1 performance coaching.
