Sport Climbing Australia (SCA) is the peak body
in Australia for the
sport of competition climbing.
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World Youth Climbing Championship Qualifiers
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NSW State Lead and Speed
-- NSW State Bouldering
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-- NSW
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Results to be posted soon.
It's over for another year. Thanks to Lorano and his team at the Climbing Edge in Hobart for a successful weekend. Congratulations to James Kassay and Carlie Le Breton on winning the National Championships this year. To view final results click here.
Sincere apologies for the slow updating of this event. Sounds like a great day and well done to the gym and their organising committee on staging such a terrific event. Results can now be viewed on the results page or go to the Urban Gym website in Brisbane.
The ACT Bouldering Titles were held over the weekend of July 3 & 4. The event was well attended by the junior element of Canberra climb ing along with a few interstaters from NSW and Victoria. Well done to Joe Horan in taking out first place in the Open Males whilst laura Crump was victorious in a closely contested Open Female. Results are now posted on the Results page.
The 4th round will be at Sydney Indoor Climbing ,Villawood, NSW on July 24. This will be the opening of the Villawood Gym. The Gym and the Comp will be opened by someone important. There will be opening day specials as well.
For information on the event including conditions of entry, categories competing and point scoring click here. Climbers competing are encouraged to download the entry form and bring completed along with your $30 entry fee.
After much work by some important people behind the scenes we can finally bring you the current rankings of sports climbers around Australia as 1st April. Click on the link to see where you are - Australian Climber Rankings
News on this year's Oceania sees the New Zealand Climbing Federation looking to include an Oceania Bouldering event for Youth B, Youth A, Junior and Open Categories. as well as the lead and speed events. Details are yet to be finalised but so far information from the NZ website tells us that the event will be held at the Extreme Edge climbing Gym in Auckland.
At this point, the Climbing New Zealand website only says:
2010 Oceania/National Championships
The 2010 Oceania Championships will be held, in conjunction with the NZ National Championships, at Extreme Edge in Panmure, Auckland on 1st, 2nd & 3rd October 2010.
http://www.climbing.org.nz/competitions
The Austrlian Sportsclimbing Team that will travel to Edinburgh, Scotland has been announced. Congratulations to those who have been successful in gaining a position in this year's team. For full details on who has made the team follow the link-Australian Team Members 2010 . Team members need to keep checking their email for information being distributed by team managers Jan Brown and Marti Santangelo.
Selection process for WYC.
Climbers' responsibility policy; outlining how climbers selected to represent Australia are expected to conduct themselves.
Open Climber Selection Policy and
Ranking Policy
Calendar has now been updated with regards to bouldering comps in Victoria. Still a few holes and info sheets and entry forms have to be added but, at least you can plan your training.
The SCA has formally adopted its anti-doping policy. This policy will apply to all future competitions. All athletes in the categories that could be tested (Youth B, Youth A, Junior and Open) should make themselves familiar with it.
Tom O'Halloran working the roof at Oceania in Port Macquarie (Oct 2009).
Round 1 was completed on Sunday at the Lactic Factory in Abbotsford. Well done to the Open winners- Mark Spolestra, who held off an injured (climbing in a boot!) Richard Dale by 8 points! Winner of the Open womens was Andrea Hanh who conitnued her domination of the Melbourne Bouldering scene with a 31 point win over second placed Jing Wong. Round 2 is this weekend (Sunday August 29) at The Rock in Geelong. Get yourself registered at participating gyms. Juniors 9am, Open in two sessions, 11.15am and 1.30pm
SCA membership is ONLY $10, so join up. You need to be a member for both roped and boulder series and other state and national level comps.
Take your SCA membership card in to Mountain Equipment and they will give you a 10% off discount card for there stores.
Look out for more membership benefits
The forms will be updated soon for 2010.
Click here for membership
forms
The SCA provides both full and supporting membership.
Full membership is required to:
a) compete in State and National Level SCA sanctioned
events;
b) compete in International events sanctioned by the IFSC;
d) vote in official SCA processes; and
e) host SCA sanctioned events by facility owners.
The SCA Board for 2010 are:
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Rob LeBreton | NSW, President |
| Mike Garben | NSW, Treasurer |
| Carlie LeBreton | NSW, Memberships |
| Doug Marmion | ACT, Secretary |
| Mike Davis | VIC |
| Cam Fletcher | NSW |
| Lorano Agostonelli | Tas |
| Marti Santangelo | NSW |
| Maya Santangelo | NSW |
| Connor Macpherson | NSW |
| Jan Zbranek | NSW |
| Brigit Millar | Tas |
| James Kassay | VIC |
The board welcomed James Kassay (from the Bayside Rock Climbing Gym) and Brigit Millar (from Tasmania) onto the board at their March meeting. James brings another voice to sportclimbing from Victoria alog with a desire to see the sport grow.