TULSA, Okla. â As 12-year-old Kasen Dunn rounded the track at Tulsa's River Spirit Expo over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the announcer quipped prophetically, "looks like Dunn's sitting out front in this one."
Indeed, Kasen was out front the entire race, and when he finished, he bunny hopped his BMX bicycle several times in triumphant excitement.
Over the course of several races held over two days in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kasen took first place in the novice class of the USA BMX Race of Champions. He was competing against BMX racers from across the country.
Kasen, who is a seventh grader at Mackinaw Trail Middle School in Cadillac, fell in love with BMX racing almost immediately after he tried it out for the first time six or seven months ago.