Touchstone ZERO GRAVITY Division 1 Team Champions!
Touchstone's Zero Gravity Youth Climbing Team crushed at the USA Climbing Division 1 Championships, held at Touchstone's Pipeworks in Sacramento, the weekend of June 13 and 14. The Division 1 Championships incorporates the top youth climbers from Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming. Zero Gravity won the Team award over past National team Champions Vertical World, from Seattle, and 29 other teams.

Of the 17 competitors that Zero Gravity took to the competition, they had 4 Div1 Champions (sport), 3 Div1 Champions (speed), 9 podium finishes (sport), 5 podium finishes (speed).

Scott Cory, Division 1 Champion Sport, Division 1 Champion Speed
Joshua Levin, Division 1 Champion Sport, Division 1 Champion Speed
Cicada Jenerik, Division 1 Champion Sport, Division 1 Champion Speed
Sera Busse, Division 1 Champion Sport, Third Speed
Eric Sanchez, Third Sport, Division 1 Champion Speed
Gabrielle Strandberg, Second Sport, Second Speed
Gregor Pierce, Second Sport, Fourth Speed
Charlie Andrews, Second Sport, Fourth Speed
Hannah Le, Second Sport, Fourteenth Speed
Troy Gibb, Sixth Sport, Eleventh Speed
Nicolas Bradley, Sixth Sport, Eighth Speed
Kevin Ott, Eighth Sport, Ninth Speed
Silas Burger, Ninth Sport, Thirteenth Speed
Jorden Vogel, Thirteenth Sport, Seventh Speed
Tesea Thornton, Seventeenth Sport, Fourteenth Speed
Alexa Nazarian, Twelfth Sport
Cody Gibb, Twelfth Speed
Scot Jenerik, Division 1 Team Champions Coach

Also at the Regional Championships held in May, Touchstone's Zero Gravity became the Northern California Regional Champions for the Fourth straight year.

Next are the USAC National Championships which will be held in July in Salt Lake City. For more information about USA Climbing go to http://www.usaclimbing.org

Labels: Climbing Competitions, Division 1 Championship, Sacramento Pipeworks, USA Climbing, Zero Gravity

  ¶ Tuesday, June 16, 2009