Over the weekend 15-year-old Alijah Beatty competed in the USA Cycling National Championships in Madison, Wisconsin, placing in the top eight in each event. The Washington teenager placed fifth in the road race, sixth in the time trial and eighth in the criterium. Earlier this summer, she won the Snake Alley Criterium in Burlington in the women’s senior division. And later this summer she will compete in Canada in a six-part cycling race with 200 athletes from Canada, the U.S. and Europe.