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LEEDS WALL JUNIOR TEAM
British Youth Climbing Series 2009
FINALS - Report
Encouraging Results in a Development Year
The
Final of the British Youth Climbing Series took place at Westway Sports
Centre London on Saturday 20th June 2009. It was when the 18
best climbers from each of the 12 UK regions came together to compete for
the overall titles for boy and girls across 3 age groups.
With
none of the Leeds Wall Junior Team members in the oldest year of their
respective age groups, we had done well to fill ten of the eighteen places
in the Yorkshire squad. This was however, always going to be a final to
gain experience from and there were some very notable performances. All
who participated did so with great enthusiasm and endeavour.
Girls
8 -10yrs
Jasmine
Lowe (girls 8
-10yrs) showed determination and commitment to compete at this level. This
was the first year of competitive climbing for her and she will not be
eight years old until the end of this year. Jasmine is hoping to make a
commitment to train with the Leeds Wall Team soon and is looking forwards
to improving on her skills and next years rounds of the BYCS.
Boys
8-10yrs
Jacob
Lowe can be proud
of his performance as the main obstacle for him was that of reach. In
particular, his efforts on the bouldering, secured him a BMC special
award. Jacob is looking forward to the BYCS next year and on improving on
this years excellent 13th place overall.
Ben
Murphy did very
well in his first final. He truly showed that he can last the pace when 8
hours after the competition started he got considerably further up his
final route than many of those who finished above him in the overall
standings.
Boys
11 – 13yrs
All
three of the LWJT climbers in this section are of the youngest year in
their age group. So they have all done especially well. With these three
in friendly competition at team training on a weekly basis there are
particularly a good signs for the coming years.
George
Rossi had
a good day and will have benefitted from the experience of competing in
this final. His route score was on a par with a number of others who
finished above him in the competition. Keep up the good work Luke.
Luke
Murphy put
in a top performance in both bouldering and routes to gain a very
encouraging 19th overall out of total of 32 competitors.
Keep up the good work Luke a see what the future brings.
Davey
McElwee followed
up 4th place in the 8 – 10yrs section in last years final
with 18th in year one of this category. This is an excellent
basis for progression in Davey’s future years of competition climbing.
Girls
11 – 13yrs
Hannah
Cornish came
through a challenging day well. She can take away some valuable learning
about what aspects of her training to develop in order to balance her
skills, strength and positive attitude. This should see her develop well
as a climber over the coming years.
Ellie
Rymer after
her performance stated, “I am very happy with my performance as I could
not have done better”. All who watched would agree that Ellie put in an
admirable effort, climbing to the best of her ability. Had the route
setters been a little kinder in respect of technicality over reach,
Ellie’s skills may have taken her even higher up the results board than
her already very good 14th place.
With many of those above her a year older things look good for
next year.
Boys
14 – 16yrs
Seb
Smith in
his first final was the second of our climbers to receive a BMC special
award for his efforts. Seb bouldered and routed well, and maintained a
very positive attitude throughout. Seb kept on smiling even when it looked
like he was going home without his shoes.
Joe
Swales set
himself well for ascending the results tables in future years with his
performance in the final. Of particular note was his determination not to
let a nasty rope tangling incident, which left him hanging upside down by
his ankle interfere with his performance. Joseph also won a BMC special
award.
Nathan
Phillips – It
was a good day for Nathan as he won the senior boys category. (see report
on Nathan's success)
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