The Board of Directors for MAMBA is comprised of community members and cyclists with a broad range of expertise and a wealth of passion, each committed to building and supporting the future of mountain biking in the Greater Morgantown area.
Colin Dierman
President
Colin is a Morgantown resident and lifetime cyclist. He is the General Manager of Wamsley Cycles in Morgantown, WV. He is also the 2019 GNCC eMTB National Champion and a current member of the Impakt Media eMTB race team. Colin is a founding member of MAMBA and served as an at-large member of the board of directors from 2019 through 2023, when he stepped up to the role of Vice President. In February 2025, Colin was elected by the MAMBA board of directors to serve as President, leveraging a wealth of knowledge and experience in the cycling industry, bike racing, and the Morgantown bicycling community to lead the next stage of growth and development for the organization.
Nick Gipson
Vice President
Nick’s love for cycling started as a kid but reignited in 2020 when he bought his first “real” mountain bike from Pathfinder. Since then, Nick’s MTB hobby has become a passion for cycling in all forms, expanding to include road, gravel, cyclocross, and single-speed MTB. In 2024, Nick was encouraged to try racing again, and after that he was hooked. He became a member of the Pathfinder Factory Racing team and won the West Virginia Gravel Series for the Medium Open category.
While it’s not unusual to see Nick enjoying a solo ride, it was the personal impact of the cycling community which led him to seek a role with MAMBA, and joining the board of directors in 2024. Nick is driven to reciprocate and amplify that feeling of community and share the love of cycling. Combining his personal passion and enthusiasm with professional expertise in operations and management, Nick’s hopes to help sustain and advance mountain biking in the Morgantown area for current and future generations. He was elected to Vice President of the MAMBA board in February of 2025.
Nick is a longtime resident of West Virginia, attending elementary school through college in Morgantown. Nick met his wife, Tiffany, while at West Virginia University (WVU) and they had their daughter, Alex, while living in Asheville, NC in 2013. For Nick, bikes come in at a close 3rd behind Tiff and Alex.
Professionally, Nick has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from WVU and oversees operations, safety, and emergency management programs at research facilities nationwide.
Jesse Cecil
Secretary
Jesse has a deep conservation ethic, and views development of outdoor recreation as the path to a brighter future for WV communities. He has a diverse education from West Virginia University with a B.S. in wildlife management and a graduate education focusing on editorial & science journalism, and his professional experience is in operations management, conservation, and recreation development. Jesse is the Grants and Research Coordinator WVU’s Brad & Alys Smith Outdoor Economic Development Collaborative, and is a founding member of the MAMBA Board of Directors, serving as Secretary since February 2021.
A child of Appalachia, Jesse was born in Roane County, West Virginia, and grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Floyd, Virginia. He moved to Morgantown over 20 years ago to attend undergrad at WVU and has lived there since. Though riding bikes constantly as a kid, Jesse is a relative noob to the modern mountain bike scene — he hit the trails in 2017 and never looked back. He and his wife Kristi have two daughters, Seneca and Isla Jane, who are naturally being raised to love the outdoors and ride bikes with gusto.
Amy Dierman
Treasurer
Amy is a CPA from Morgantown, WV. She is adventurous and is a beginner rider who is excited to explore and help create new trail systems. She recently became an 200 RYT Yoga Teacher and in her spare time loves to travel and scuba dive. Amy is a founding member of the MAMBA Board of Directors , and has served as Treasurer since 2019.
Bonnie Ammons
Member at Large
Originally from Frederick, Maryland, Bonnie moved to Morgantown in 2000 after graduating from James Madison University. Bonnie grew up running around in the woods and spent summers in her younger days sharing that love by working in outdoor tourism as a raft guide and commercial cave tour guide. Early in her time in WV, she took up road biking and triathlon with her husband, Jeff, before having 2 energetic boys and later embracing the switch to Mountain Biking as a family sport. Bonnie quickly fell in love with riding in the woods and currently is an enthusiastic Coach-Volunteer with our local NICA (National Interscholastic Cycling Association) team. Go Trailhawks! She enjoys traveling to other mountain biking destinations with her family and looks forward to encouraging others to enjoy the beauty and challenge that Morgantown Area trail systems have to offer. Bonnie is especially passionate about encouraging women to ride and for whole families to ride together because riding bikes is FUN!
Brennan Comfort
Member at Large
Brennan grew up in Washington, PA and had a love for the outdoors from a young age. Whether he was playing sports, riding bikes, or exploring the woods in his backyard, you could always find him outside. In 2015, Brennan earned a B.S. in Physics from Wheeling Jesuit University. While his love of biking took a back seat to his college track career, it returned after graduation and gave him a way to explore Wheeling, WV from the roads to the rail trail.
Brennan is the SVP – Chief Data & Analytics Officer at WesBanco. In 2019, he earned a M.S. in Business Data Analytics from West Virginia University and moved to Morgantown with his wife, Gabrielle. Mountain biking in the Greater Morgantown area quickly became his favorite hobby and gave him a sense of community. Through MAMBA’s group rides, trail work, and other events, he explored his new city and has developed lasting friendships. Brennan is excited about creating similar opportunities for others through his involvement on the MAMBA Board of Directors.
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