Devon Haskell (Team Get a Grip Cycles), who has dominated our road and cross scene for the past two years and whom you may remember from this interview, won Saturday’s collegiate road national championship (Div. II) in Ft. Collins, Colo. After an early climb whittled the field to five, Haskell proceeded to ride her companions off her wheel. “I went after Devon,” one competitor told CyclingNews, “but just couldn’t catch her.”

Haskell finished 4th in Sunday’s criterium and wound up tied for 1st place in the omnium. This is a major achievement for Haskell and for the University of Chicago Velo Club. It is UCVC’s second national championship, the first being the 2005 criterium title from Todd Yezefski (IF Racing).

A handful of Chicago riders also made the long trip to Fayetteville, Ark., for the weekend’s Joe Martin Stage Race. Seth Meyer (Turin) took a stab at the P/1 field and finished 57th overall after a grueling weekend. Jessi Prinner (ABD) showed off a powerful uphill sprint to finish 3rd in Sunday’s difficult criterium and 10th in the women’s 3/4 general classification. Debbie Dust (Team Kenda Tire) finished 4th in the field sprint and 5th on the day in Saturday’s W-P/1/2 road race. “It was by far the most rewarding result I have ever gotten,” Dust reports on her blog. “I suffered like a dog when I thought I’d rather be dead. I was able to pull off something beyond what I ever thought I could do. So damn cool.” Her finish helped Kenda grab a 3rd place in the overall team competition.

Finally a XXX Racing-AthletiCo rider got in a four-man break in Saturday’s Cat 3 road race. His notoriously feeble sprint was no match against the three juniors, but the three-minute gap to the field held up, giving him a 4th place finish in the GC, tops for Chicago-area competitors.

UPDATE: I’m alerted that Geneva’s Ben Raby also had a good week, instigating a long breakaway in Friday’s P/1 road race and winding up 61st overall in his first racing since the Tour of Missouri. The former ABD and Kodak Gallery rider is now racing independently under the SRAM flag.