Cal Poly Climbers

The Cal Poly Climbers are now an official club on campus!  Complete with weekly meetings, clinics, and social gatherings, the CPC is your resource for getting into climbing.  Check out our blog at 

http://calpolyclimbers.blogspot.com/

First Meeting

The long wait is finally over...

The Cal Poly Climbers will be having their first general meeting this Thursday!

Thursday, November 17
11:00-12:00
Building 186 (Construction Innovations) Room C203

Welcome!

Hey Climbers!  Welcome to a new school year and a new beginning for our climbing team.  This year will be the first year we are recognized as an official Cal Poly club!  Once we have all our final paperwork submitted, we will have our first meeting of the year where we will welcome new members, introduce our officers, discuss the upcoming year, set some goals, and have a great time getting to know each other.  Please remember that the club is open to anyone who loves climbing, no matter what your ability is!  Please invite your friends :)

In the meantime, check out some of these upcoming events:

Poly Escapes Climbing Competition

Thursday 10/13 Time TBA

Poly Escapes Climbing Wall, Cal Poly Campus

Reel Rock Film Tour

Friday 11/1 8:00 PM 

Downtown Centre Cinemas

Cranksgiving Bouldering Comp 

Saturday 11/12 10:00 AM

SLO Op Climbing

Where in the World are the Sloopers?

The school year is ended and the Sloopers have dispersed across the world for summer time adventure.  Have a cool picture of yourself in your Sloopers shirt?  Send it in and we'll post it on our blog!

Jason

 in front of the Hæstahjallafoss waterfall in Iceland

2011 CCS Nationals

The 2011 CCS season culminated on Saturday with Nationals, held at Mesa Rim in San Diego, California.  The event was spectacular!  The routes were great, the competition was fierce and the turnout was huge.  Schools in attendance included (note that not all of these schools have official teams, but students who attend these schools were there): 

Humboldt State University

Sierra Nevada College

USC

UCSD  

University of Central Florida (team champions, 3rd year straight!)

Florida State University

University of Florida

Baylor

Southern Methodist University

University of Texas

Yale

RIT

US Military Academy

US Naval Academy

University of Virginia

Western State College

Colorado State University- Pueblo

Adams State College

Oklahoma State University

Alex at the start of a very long route

The competition was red-point format, which means that you can try each route as many times as you want.  Your top three routes and top three boulder problems are counted for your final score.  Yes, that is right, the Sloopers had to rope up and climb routes!

Sloopers Laura and Adam climb side by side

The Sloopers had three team members competing- Alex, Laura and Adam.  For all three of them, it was the first time roping up in a very long time and the 65 foot tall walls were very daunting indeed.  After four hours of hard work they turned in their score cards and waited for the results.  In the meantime, Laura participated in the speed climbing portion of the competition.

Laura speed climbing

Finally the results were in...

Alex got 2nd place

and he was out of first by only 5 points

that's right.. sponsored Asana climber Dan Beall had 7,808 points and Alex had 7,803!

Awesome job Alex!

Oh, and despite not being on ropes for a full year, Alex received the highest amount of points in roped climbing!

If you have not had a chance to see Alex climb, please take the time to do so.  It is truly inspirational to watch someone with as much determination and passion as Alex work their way up a rock face.

Alex attempting a tricky 5.13

On the female side...

Laura took 5th

which is not too shabby either.

Laura heel hooking her way up a funky 5.12

The Sloopers could not have experienced such great success without the tremendous support from our families and friends who were there to cheer us on.  Thank you Biale Family, Patton Family, Jason, Chelsea, David, Israel, Patrick, Allie, and Haley for being there at the competition.

Another huge thanks to our sponsors: House of Bread, Ready Set Oats, Evolv, and SLO Op climbing!

And of course, a huge shout out to John Myrick, the director of CCS for starting this wonderful series and putting on another great event.

All photos by Michael Patton.

More photos to come in the near future!

Sac Town Smack Down

Saturday marked the end of the regular season for the Collegiate Climbing Series in California.  A wonderful season culminated in a fun weekend in Sacramento where the Sloopers competed in Regionals. 

David cruising up a problem

The competition was held at Sac State at their brand new wall in their brand new rec center!  It was a beautiful facility and we got to be a part of the first competition ever hosted there.  All the Sloopers showed up ready to crush and they didn’t disappoint!

Alex sticking the finish

A big congratulations to the Sloopers for getting 2^nd place as a team in the California region!  Humboldt took home a well-deserved 1^st place banner.

Congrats to the Regional Team Champions, Humboldt!

 Another huge congrats to Alex Biale and Laura Patton who won 1^st in the competition on Saturday as well as being crowned regional champions for the entire season.

The success continued with a 1^st place finish in the intermediate category for Josh Lewis.  Way to go!

 

Israel throwing for the top

 The Sloopers worked tremendously hard this season.  Everyone involved put in their best effort and should be proud of what we accomplished this season.  We are looking forward to Nationals on April 23, at Mesa Rim in San Diego. 

Good luck at Nationals, Sloopers!

  

Stanford Sweep!

This weekend the Sloopers headed up to Palo Alto for the closest competition of the season at Stanford University.

The competition was held on the Stanford campus, and the gym was packed with 50 awesome problems and many, many climbers.

All the climbers were supplied with lots of snacks and a pizza lunch.  The competition spanned a six hour period to ensure that every one had enough time on the wall given the crowds.  By the end of the competition, everyone was exhausted!

Tired climbers waiting for awards to be announced

It was another extremely successful weekend for the Sloopers, with Alex and Laura taking home first place finishes again in both the Collegiate competition as well as the Open competition.  The Sloopers and the Humboldt Rock Monkeys swept the competition and walked away with all the ribbons for the weekend.  It must have been the Ready Set Oats they all shared for breakfast!    

Laura does a funky maneuver en route to a successful send

David focusing

Alex pulling a burly move

Patrick crushing

Next weekend is our last regular season competition.  The regional championship will be held at Sacramento State University and the Sloopers are looking forward to another chance to get on some new problems, have fun, and bring home some ribbons!

Nationals is also quickly approaching... mark your calendars!  April 23 at Mesa Rim in San Diego.


Also, a huge thanks to the Patton family for hosting 13 climbers this weekend!