Maryland Interscholastic Cycling League Staff
Jonathan Posner
League Co-Director
Jon Posner was bitten by the mountain bike bug in 1993. He worked part time at a local shop through college, dividing his time between pursuing mountain bike racing and earning course credits, and graduated from UMBC in 2005 with a combined degree in Business Management and Sports Marketing.
He took a job right out of school with Trek Bicycle as the Trek/VW National Team Manager and worked with the Trek/VW MTB racing program worldwide for two years, winning himself a National Super D series title along the way. In 2007 he returned home to settle down with his wife and start a family.
Over the past decade, he has continued to remain very involved with mountain biking, using his position as a store manager for Race Pace Bicycles to help him network around the state and work on a range of cycling initiatives. He is president of Old Line Velo, a 5 year old Maryland nonprofit dedicated to furthering cycling around the state, and a board member with Baltimore Youth Cycling, another nonprofit in it’s third year of operating a kids cyclocross program that has seen explosive growth over a short time. He is well known throughout the Maryland MTB scene as an all around positive person who involves himself in many varied cycling initiatives.
Jon has been talking about seeing NICA launch in Maryland for several years, but he hit a turning point after attending the PA league finals and their leadership summit in Harrisburg. After some conversations with his family and his employer, he left his job at the end of Summer 2017 and committed full-time to seeing a successful league launch in Maryland.
Fred Powell
League Co-Director
As a child Fred would often day dream of touring cross country on a loaded bike or conquering the Alps like his Tour de France hero, Greg Lemond.
In the autumn of 1990 he purchased his first mountain bike and immediately fell in love with the sport, so much so that he began racing that following summer. Soon his passion for the bike and racing became a lifelong obsession. “Fast Freddy”, as he was affectionately known, worked in a local shop for over a decade as a service manager while racing his bike up and down the east coast and across the country when possible.
His desire to help get NICA in Maryland comes from his desire to share and introduce kids to a sport that has enriched his life in so many ways. In a fortuitous path crossing with Jon they began discussing NICA and quickly decided to join forces and begin working towards making NICA in Maryland a reality.
Fred currently lives in Catonsville with his wife and three children; you’re likely to see them on the trails of Patapsco State Park, when you do, be sure to say “hello”.
Adam Lewandowski
Event Director
Adam is the regional Trek Bicycle territory manager overseeing PA and MD. He is active in the Pennsylvania league and is committed to helping a Maryland league see equal success. Adam has a background in education and coaching and also holds multiple certifications in bicycle fit. He is an avid road, cyclocross, and MTB racer and a father of 2 young children. Adam stepped into the Events Director role for season 6 after serving as our registration manager since season one!
Dan Abate
Core Staff at Large
Dan spent eight years working with race productions and assisted in producing races that included cross country mountain bike race series, as well as 12, 9, and 6 hour mountain bike relay races, XTERRA Off Road DuAthlon/TriAthlon race, adventure races, and various trail running races. Dan has also been able to participate in several cross country races, 24 hour races, 100 mile races, and everything in between as a Sport Class level racer (which means he was never fast, just in it for the personal challenge). Dan has also worked part time in bike shops at REI and 90+ Cycling studio in Columbia, MD. He also volunteers his spare time with the local mountain bike organization MORE with trail building and maintenance. Lastly, Dan has enjoyed coaching his son’s recreational baseball team for the last three seasons.
Dan has been race director since year one, and stepped back for season six to focus more on coaching with is sons team the Mountain Lions.
Laura Gray
GRiT Coordinator
Laura has been a mountain bike enthusiast for almost 20 years. For the last two years she worked as a ride leader with the Corner Canyon Mountain Bike Team in Utah. She moved back to Maryland with the hopes of helping to bring high school mountain biking to her home state and quickly found and connected with the MDMTB team. Laura will be able to draw on her years of experience with a well established NICA league. She is a Frederick County high school math teacher and brings the background of an educator to the table as well.
Diana Allen
Associate League Director
Diana has been riding bikes competitively since college. She has experience in a wide variety disciplines, including road racing, criteriums, track, cyclocross, cross-country and downhill. She currently races pro enduro. Outside of racing, Diana is Liv Cycling brand ambassador and a PMBIA certified mtb skills coach. She loves to work with beginner women and kids. Diana is coach for the Gunpowder Mills Racers team and is involved in a number of women's and kid's camps throughout the year. Her MICL core staff roles include coach supporter and the Girls Riding Together (GRiT) ambassador coordinator. You can catch her at the GRiT tent or roving around as a course marshal on race days.
Bert Taylor
Infield ops and graphic design
Bert is what you might call a “warm body” volunteer. He is happy to help where needed. He took his first MTB to school with him in the White mountains in 92, sans suspension. Bert barley escaped the Western draw after a season in Crested Butte. He Backpacked the Tour Du Mont Blanc, then settled back in Maryland where he grew up. Well,… where he lived as a young person. Now he is a stay at home graphic designer in New Market. He bought a modern bike when his son joined the Monocacy Composite team in season one. Bert is now a coach on that team and in addition to that, he organizes the Frederick Maryland area sMORE ride group, the Frederick Snallygasters and a weekly MTB club at his son’s school. Bert firmly believes the world needs more “outdoor” kids and recklessly overextends himself in related pursuits to that end. He has an amazing wife, that for the most part puts up with him.
Stephanie Chall
Director of Strategic Growth
Bryan Barnes
Website Support
Bryan created and maintains this web presence and assists with other digital assets as needed. You might also catch him snapping photos at MICL events and races to post here.
Please let him know if you notice any issues or have trouble with this website!