The Warren Wilson College mountain bike team finished third at the 2009 USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships in Truckee, California.  The mountain bike program has now finished in the top three of the DIvision II portion of the past seven National Championships.

To go along with their third place finish, junior Linden Blaisus finished fifth in the Men's Omnium highlighted by a 4th place finish in short track and a 13th place finish in the cross country.  Other highlights included Ileana Anderson's 3rd place finish in the Four Cross, Becca Parish's 4th place finish in the downhill, and Nina Otter's 6th place finish in the cross country.