GRG Youth Climbing Team

Gainesville Rock Gym Team Mission:

Team Purpose:

Our team’s purpose is to encourage safe climbing, friendship, and a healthy lifestyle for the young climbers while promoting the individual climber to seek growth through goal setting and competition.

Objectives:

• Meet new friends
• Encourage climbers to be self-sufficient
• Promote climbing as a fun lifestyle choice
• Work towards individual climbers’ goals
• Improve on technical, physical, and mental climbing skills
• Participation in state and national climbing competitions.

Expectations:

The coaching staff has certain expectations in regards to the team as a whole and also to each individual climber. We expect each climber to show up to practice and be ready for practice on time. We also expect that each climber is willing to work hard during practice, giving 100%. We expect them to be self motivated and show a willingness to work together with other climbing team members. In addition to this we fully expect the climbers to come in and climb on their own time; after all, climbing is fun. Personal climbing is a great way to see improvement on your own.

The Coaches are expecting team members to be supportive of each other, both verbally and physically, through spotting, belaying and pats on the back. We also expect the climbers to be forming a community within themselves, as well as with other climbers in the gym.

Practice time:

Practice is held every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 6:00pm- 8:00pm.

For more information please email one of our coaches!

Coach’s contact information:

Giuseppe Marchionno:giuseppelaurenmarchionno@gmail.com

Jason Candler:jcandler77@yahoo.com

Kaleigh Bush:Kaleigh.b@gmail.com