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Scottish Teams

Scottish Team memebrs Photo: Scott Anderson HYCC

 

The Scottish Teams

As there is no national Scottish competition series for adults at present there is no means of identifying an adult Scottish Team. However, the annual MCofS youth competition series (the YCS) operates two regions in Scotland. The top three climbers in each category (boys, girls, 7-9, 10-12, 13-15) selected from the YCS each year make up two regional teams: North and South Scotland.

These MCofS Scottish Teams' Members gain support from climbing wall operators in association with the MCofS to obtain reduced cost access to certain climbing walls to help them train during the period of their team membership.

In addition, the annual MCofS Scottish Youth Climbing Championship takes the top five from each category in the YCS (boys & girls, 7-10, 11-13, 14-16) as well as entries from an Open Category for boys and girls aged 17-19. This competition now gives a means of identifying the overall Scottish Champions.

 

British Team News

The Full British Team at Ratho Photo: K Howett/MCS

For up to date info about Scottish climbers
 on the British Team see here

The British Team

This is organised by the BMC: full details of the members of the team, the training events and competition results and rankings can be found at the official websites for either bouldering team or leading team on the BMC site. British Team members based in Scotland are supported by the MCofS and and are coached by MCofS endorsed coaches.

The British Team News page (see the link to the right) follows the competition highlights of the Scottish members on the British Team. It includes profiles of the climbers, breaking news and archive news.

 

 

British Team News Letter

British Team Newsletter

 "Psyched" is the newsletter for the British Team. It is edited by Ian Mackenzie (Chair of the BMC Competitions Committee) and Assistant Editor Natalie Berry (MCofS member & British Team Member). It contains profiles, reports, advice and competition results from IFSC events as well as UK competitions. It is available as a downloadable pdf. below or on the BMC site.

Psyched 3 (June 2010) Featuring: Youth C Category at the International Youth Open at Imst, Austria by Ian Dunn; British Climbing Team News featuring Scots climbers by Ian Dunn; Junior Team Training Meet at Aix, France by Racael Carr; Eleanor Hopkins profile; Dry Tooling and the Scottish Tooling Series by Pete hill; UIAA Ice Competitions by Rob Gibson including the first Youth Championship by Tom Randall; The Scottish Youth Climbing Championship report by Avril Gall

Psyched 2 (January 2010) Featuring: Team News by Ian Dunn; Foreign News by Natalie Berry; Dry Ice Tools; BMC Leading ladder by Becki Hall; getting the most from your local wall

Psyched 1 (September 2009) Featuring: The World Youth Championships 2009, France by Natalie Berry; YCS Final 2009, The Westway, London by Rob Adie; British Bouldering team by Nick Clement; The BBC and BLCC (at Ratho) by Dave McFarlane; Jonny Stocking Profile; Jonny Stocking on winning the BLCC; Natalie Berry on winning the BLCC; Climbing and the Olympics by Lucy Creamer; training technique by Dave MacLeod

 

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