A nine-year-old from Davenport has qualified for Team USA and to compete in the UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland in August of 2023.

Knox “Fort Knox” Reaves has been racing BMX since he was able to stand. He has been practicing at East Moline BMX two nights per week and competing around the nation at BMX tracks like Music City BMX (Nashville, TN), Oldsmar BMX Supercross (Oldsmar, Florida), and Hardesty National BMX Stadium (Tulsa, Oklahoma).

His qualification to compete with Team USA in Glasgow, Scotland came at the February 2023 Gator Nationals in Oldsmar, FL.

He will be one of sixteen youth competing in his age-group and one of the only for his age and category from the United States. These young athletes will be competing for one of only eight world plates that will be given out during the UCI Cycling World Championships.

More information can be found at https://www.facebook.com/eastmolinebmx.speedway/

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Sean Leary is an author, director, artist, musician, producer and entrepreneur who has been writing professionally since debuting at age 11 in the pages of the Comics Buyers Guide. An honors graduate of the University of Southern California masters program, he has written over 50 books including the best-sellers The Arimathean, Every Number is Lucky to Someone and We Are All Characters.