More than 100 riders strong, FLC Cycling is a unique hybrid program, blending the fun of a club with the full-time professional coaching and equipment of a varsity sport. And all it takes to join is a helmet and a hunger to ride. The focus, though, is still on fun and team spirit. Collegiate cycling is a good time with great people.

Unlike professional racing, it's the nature of collegiate cycling that has each person riding to earn points for the whole team rather than just for themselves. It's that unique spirit that forges deeper and lasting connections among collegiate cyclists that last well after their college riding days are over.

In January 2016, Fort Lewis College launched its first annual "Hawk Tank" entrepreneurial competition,
modeled on the hit ABC show Shark Tank. The teams received mentoring in development and marketing from local business leaders and attended a series of workshops over a four-month period.

A fledgling yerba mate tea company earned $5,000 in this year’s inaugural Hawk Tank Business Plan Competition, hosted by the School of Business Administration and the Alumni Engagement Office. As a key part of the competition, the Durango community also had several opportunities to contribute to the event’s success, from becoming a sponsor to volunteering as a mentor.

Seven FLC students participated in the NASA Colorado Space Grant 2016 Robotics Challenge in the Great Sand Dunes National Park.

Fort Lewis College cyclists have unlimited training right nearby on thousands of miles of epic singletrack trails through the beautiful and challenging terrain of the Southern Rockies. And for road riding, Durango is located on the San Juan Skyway, a 230-mile scenic highway that travels over several 12,000-foot  passes in the San Juan Mountains.

The project is an effort to give voice to those affected by sexual assault and to inspire others to think more about this problem.

Senior Environmental Studies major Jack Klim and senior Public Health major Jozi Campbell spearheaded an Animas River cleanup with the Water Justice Project that gathered 1286 pounds of trash.

Collegiate cyclists from the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference (RMCCC) will descend upon Durango for one of the toughest weekends of racing.

Greg Cairns (Humanities, '13) created this inspirational short for Backcountry.com about the importance of getting outside. [VIDEO]

Ken Bledsoe (History, '67) published a book on his father's WWII experience in the Pacific theater in 1942 called Echoes from an Eagle.

Katie Chicklinski-Cahill (Political Science, '99) took over as the Arts & Entertainment Editor of the Durango Herald.

Ferrari Arviso, a Navajo junior Psychology and Native American & Indigenous Studies major, was named Miss Hozhoni for 2016-17.

Brianne Nelson (Exercise Science, '03) became the first woman to win the Horsetooth Half-Marathon with a time of 1:16:44.

As he completes his service as Colorado’s Lieutenant Governor, Joe Garcia will offer the Commencement Address at Fort Lewis College Spring’s Commencement.