Chauncey placed 4th in sport and 3rd in speed climbing at the USA Climbing nationals in Sunnyvale.
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My buddy, Steve Woods, was kind enough to shoot some shots of Chauncey in the ABS finals - her debut in the pro/open category. I put a link to the gallery of these shots on the left ABS9 2008 ABS Nationals. There's also a very nice pictorial video of the event up on the Climbing Magazine web site.

We just got through with the American Bouldering Series nationals in Boulder, CO at The Spot. This year Chauncey and Taya both qualified. Chauncey's in the 16-17 year old category and Taya is in the 12-13 year category. The climbers were culled through a regional championship process and came from all over the country and even some from Japan and Canada.

This is from The Spot's web site and gives a panoramic of a crowded night at the spot.
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Tags: climbing, abs, bouldering

Day 3: Chauncey was disappointed that she got stuck on a spot and blew a lot of energy. She finished out of the running for the US Team in sport climbing and finished 8th, but the flip side is she won 1st place in speed.
Day 2: Taya climbed well but didn't make it to finals. Chauncey went on to finals in sport climbing. Chauncey also ran her qualifiers for speed and made it to the finals in speed.
Day 1: Chauncey's going into the semi-finals tied for 1st place. Valerie said Chauncey climbed very strong.
Tayanita made it into the semi-finals - looked like there were about 3 clusters of ties in the top 15 or so.
Nakoa unfortunately didn't make it to the semis, but for his first time at nationals did well.

The results can be found here:

http://www.scsnationals.org/07/details/index.htm

The 2007 national climbing competition starts tomorrow in Ann Arbor, MI. Chauncey, Taya, and Nakoa are all competing. Ali's up in Wyoming riding horses and having a blast setting off fireworks :-)


The above picture is Chauncey in the 2006 nationals in Portland, OR.

Today was the finals of the southwest divisional climbing championship. Climbers from Southern California to Colorado competed for invitations to represent the southwest division at the nationals in Ann Arbor in July. Read More...

First day of qualifiers at the southwest divisional climbing championship in Albuquerque is finished and Chauncey, Taya, and Nakoa all did well and advanced to the finals tomorrow. Chauncey crushed it and got first in her category, Taya climbed great and got 3rd, and Nakoa was on two really stiff routes and made it by the skin of his teeth at 9th. Read More...

I took Chauncey up to the Teva Mountain Games in Vail last weekend. One of the events is climbing (bouldering to be precise.)


Chauncey entered both the High School climbers exhibition and the amateur competition. She won her category of the amateurs, but by raw score she would have won overall female competitors (and most males, too.)

This pic is of her before her first climb.


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