ST JOHN’S, NL – Young Newfoundland and Labrador competition climber got to compete at the Canadian Youth Climbing Champions May 15-17th at The Hive in Surrey, BC. Newfoundland sent a record number of 7 athletes to Youth Boulder Nationals this year.
Results
Emett Booth – Junior – 15th
Cole Evans – Junior – 20th
Owen Lang – Junior – 26th
Brady Coffee – Junior – 32nd
Xenia Healey – Junior – 26th
Sammi Norman – Junior – 27th
Harry Mills – Youth A – 38th
Congratulations to Emmett Booth and Cole Evans who made it to the Semi Finals round.
Emmett placed 15th in qualifiers with 3 tops and 4 zones.
Cole placed 21st in qualifiers with 2 tops and 4 zones.
Full Junior Male Results from CEC
Full Junior Female Results from CEC
Full Youth A Male Results from CEC
Growing sport in Newfoundland.
With two climbing gyms now in St John’s competition climbing continues to grow in the province after years of it booming in other parts of Canada. With two gyms, Wallnuts Climbing Centre and
Cove Bouldering, they reach enough capacity to start a provincial sport organization, Climb NL, for climbing and send team to represent the province at regional and national event.
Up until recently Newfoundland climbers had to qualify for nationals competing in a province with a Climbing Escalade Canada (CEC)recognized provincial sports organization (PSO) such as the FQME in Quebec or OCF in Ontario. This required extensive travel. While they qualified for national competition in other provinces they could not represent that provice nor did they officially represent Newfoundland and Labrador because of the lack of a provincial sports organization here.
Now they can qualify at a provincial championship competition here or at a CEC regional qualifying championship event in eastern Canada and officially represent their province.
