                    "Freshman year, the first race I won, I was
pretty excited," Jordan said. "I kept training harder and harder
... I ended up winning the overall series freshman year."  Last
year, Jordan won the junior varsity series championship.  This
isn't his only sport. He played football as a freshman and ran
cross country last year. But now he's completely dedicated to
racing his bike.  Jordan admitted that freshman year, he would
get strange looks when he told people he was on the school's
mountain bike racing team. Bunch said that, Jordan
notwithstanding, this is a sport that tends to attract the type
of kids who wouldn't typically go out for other team sports.
Kaleb Bradley, a senior who is part of Murrieta Mesa's team, is
one of them.  "This is my first time being a part of an actual,
organized team," Bradley said. "Before I would just mountain
bike, kind of on my own free time ... I started about two-and-a-
half years ago, biking a lot over the summers, spending pretty
much all my summer on a bi