Interscholastic racing is one of NICA’s core youth activities. This racing format is the most inclusive format for youth, offering participants the opportunity to experience and learn discipline, success, failure, and graceful defeat. Racing in the team environment helps student-athletes learn empathy, humility, flexibility, and resiliency. NICA student-athletes learn that it takes a village to build a s uccessful racer, as well as to put on a race.