Public Project
Mountain Biking
This all started as a one day story for photographer Nicole Gutierrez. Initially she was just supposed to go and take photos of the COMO Raptors mountain biking team for a short sports feature story. She went there and got all the photos needed to create a gallery to go with the story. It was a couple of days later that Nicole and I were talking about the race and how neither of us had covered mountain biking before. And Nicole pitched me the idea continuing to follow the Raptors as they finish their season. We immediately started to brainstorm. One of the most important things to us was to show how there was more to the COMO Raptors than just racing. That the team was more like a family even if they raced against one another. Nicole went to multiple practices, races and even the teams end of the season party to show the bonds that they had all formed.
All photos taken by Nicole Gutierrez for the Columbia Missourian
Check out the full gallery here: Columbia youth mountain biking team offers community and competition
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