Kris Hedges' super season in the saddle has ended with the Bermudian cyclist grabbing two awards.

Hedges, who rides for the Snow Valley team in the US, was presented with his team's annual Time Trial award at their end of season banquet and was also named as an All-American for the National Collegiate Cycling Association by USA Cycling.

“I am honoured to receive these awards as I always try to be an ambassador for the sport and the teams I ride for whether I am representing Bermuda, my club team Snow Valley or Johns Hopkins University,” said Hedges. “To receive the awards is a nice reminder that I am on the right track.”

The ‘All American' collegiate title was awarded for early season results at the collegiate nationals where Johns Hopkins won the Team Time Trial and Hedges placed fourth and fifth in the road race and criterium respectively.

“The Snow Valley Time Triallist Award was voted on within the club membership as a whole. So I am definitely appreciative of their support and their acknowledgement of my season's results,” said Hedges, who added he would like to thank all those who had helped him achieve his goals this season including Snow Valley, CD&P, Winners Edge, and Cervelo Frames.

The awards mark the end of a busy year for Hedges, the Island's number one rider.

He has represented the nation at the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England and the Caribbean Championships in St. Lucia as well as taking part in the CD&P Grand Prix in addition to his Snow Valley duties.

National cycling coach Greg Hopkins said the honours were just rewards for a lot of hard work.

“Kris just seems to be going from strength to strength,” he said. “I think that he has become an integral part of the Snow Valley team and that was something he had to work very hard at at the start. To get on teams like that in the States is very difficult - it's a very highly regarded amateur team and it's very competitive.

“He has more than justified the confidence of Brian Walton (TSV team manager) who I understand is very demanding of his riders.”

Hopkins has worked with Hedges since the age of 12 and believes he is the perfect role model for up and coming riders.

“He is just an absolute consummate professional, in terms of his training, his diet, his ethics, everything.

“That is why he has got to where he is. I think what you have seen in the last two years is a young man that is reaping the rewards for plain and simple hard work, dedication and natural talent.

“I think as long as he keeps making the right decisions, so far as who he rides for and where he rides, we are still yet to see the best from Kris Hedges.”