Nominations for Board of Directors 2026-2028
So, what's next? On December 3, all active MORE members will receive an email with a link to vote. Elections will run until December 15, and results will be announced on December 17.
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President
Casey Anderson
Casey Anderson is running for reelection as MORE’s president at a time when the organization has never been stronger, with record membership and positive relationships with land managers and elected leaders throughout the region. As former chair of the Montgomery Planning Board and Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Casey built support for the natural surface trails program in Montgomery County to the point where the Parks Department has full-time trail crews with a budget of $800,000 a year for construction and maintenance, three bike parks, and more than 200 miles of trails open to mountain bikes. Over the past two years he has worked to get the Prince George’s Parks & Recreation and Fairfax County Parks to follow a similar model. He plans to continue finding new ways to serve members and deliver more opportunities for riders at every level. He is seeking a second term to accelerate this momentum and keep MORE at the forefront of responsible, inclusive trail advocacy.
Maryland Advocacy Director
Dave Magill
Hi, I’m Dave Magill, and I am running for MD Advocacy Director again for the 2026-27 term. I have been serving in this role for 12 years and have been a MORE member and trail liaison for over 30 years. Yeah, that makes me old, but hopefully a bit wiser as well. I see my role as helping all our MD trail liaisons (including myself at Schaeffer Farm) improve the trail riding and bike park options in their parks. We, the MORE liaison team, have had a lot of successes over the past 5 years; whole new trail systems being developed at places like Patuxent, Windy Ridge, Rivers Edge, Waterworks and Kent Island; advocating at budget hearings in Montgomery and Prince Georges counties, each of which now have a full time trail building crew; applying for, winning and drawing down on well over $500,000 of trail building grants from both government and private sources; putting power tools for clearing vegetation in the trails in the hands of at least 30 volunteers; and making MORE a trusted partner to a dozen land managers.
Many of you may have met me over the years, but as background I am now retired from my career, and able to devote lots of time to our trails and our liaisons. I am married with two daughters and four grandchildren, with whom I share the joy of being outdoors, hiking, biking, playing, exploring. We love the DMV area and have no plans to live anywhere else.
MORE has a broad-based membership, we have beginners, serious shredders, XC racers, casual riders like myself, people who love jumps, people who love rocks, people who love flowy smooth trails, people who mostly love the chance to hang with their friends. Luckily MD offers lands where we can make all kinds of trails, from the gravity challenges in the watershed, to the gnarly hillsides in Patapsco and Gunpowder, bike parks and downhill trails, and the flowy clay and gravel trails of MoCo and further east.
My job as MD Advocacy director is to try to line up the resources (people, land, approvals, money) to build and maintain all kinds of trails and bike amenities. Our strength as a club is our diversity of people, interests and skills, and the willingness of so many volunteers to give their time and effort to make things better for the MTB community as a whole. I hope you will vote for me to continue doing my part to keep growing our liaison team and improving our local MD riding options.
Virginia/DC Advocacy Director
Michael Ullmann
My name is Michael Ullmann; I have lived in Woodbridge, Virginia since 2013. My wife Andrea is a Fairfax County School teacher and we have two children; our daughter Hannah is 9 years old and our son Alex is 3. Both of our children participate in sMORE’s rides. I have been an avid/obsessed mountain bike rider since 2020, however I was first introduced to trail riding in 2012 when I moved to Virginia.
I ride over 1k miles per year specifically on MORE Trails; making great friends and having great experiences along the way. If elected I am looking forward to working closely with the trail liaisons to make sure they have the support needed to maintain and improve the trails they represent. I have served as the Virginia Advocacy Director since January of 2024. We have made great strides in Prince William County these last few years with the addition of several miles of trails in that county. We will also see a skills park with a short trail opening in Loudon County in 2026. Fairfax County which already has a great network of trails has seen various improvements and we will continue to advocate for additional trails and biking amenities.
My favorite local trail is Locust Shade, my favorite Maryland trail is a tie between Fairland/River's Edge,my Favorite Virginia trail is Pocahontas State Park and my favorite Bike Park is Bryce.