Hi everyone!

Sorry for the delay in this announcement. Here are the new members of the Canadian National Bouldering Team:

Women:

Vikki Weldon - Alberta
Erin Ford-Zieleniewski - Ontario
Thirza Carpenter - Alberta
Sheena Osbourne - British Columbia
Holly Reid - Nova Scotia
Katerine Martin - Quebec
Bonnie de Bruijn - Ontario
Nicola Hessels British Columbia
Kim Weaver - Quebec
Clarrie Lam - British Columbia

Men:

Sean McColl - British Columbia
Terry Paholek - Alberta
Noah Zielinski - Ontario
Sebastien Lazure - Quebec
Marshal German - Alberta
John Bowles - New Brunswick
Simon Parton - British Columbia
Dan Archambault - Alberta
Dustin Curtis - Ontario
Yves Gravelle - Quebec

The CEC and TDB would like to congratulate all of the team members on their work this year. We would look forward to sending many of them to various World Cups this season, including many who will attend this year’s World Cup in Vail, Colorado on June 7 & 8.

Congratulations again!

Chris Neve
CEC Adult Climbing Coordinator
http://www.competitionclimbingcanada.com

Who’s going to Vail?

Trent,

Here’s a not-so-brief explanation:

When it was found out that Vail would host a World Cup this year, we needed to determine who would be able to represent Canada. We had a team picked from last year’s nationals and several of those climbers had never had the opportunity to attend a World Cup because of the high costs to travel to Europe. We wanted them to have this opportunity to represent Canada at least once.

Also, a determining factor was the closeness in time between out scheduled national championships and the Vail World Cup. To organize a team just made of this year’s climbers within three weeks was not considered feasible at the time we were deciding this. With international registration and licensing to consider plus the development and production of an official uniform, there was a lot of work to be done and that timeframe gave us a small window to work with.

Now, in hindsight, I can say that maybe it would have been possible to just use this year’s team - perhaps. This is my first time organizing the Open team so a learning curve has been used that will help me for next year.

In the end, I think everyone from this year’s team that wanted to go to Vail ended up being able to attend. Added to last year’s team, we are sending about 22 athletes.

Hope that helps!

Chris