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Team Sender One: National Champions!

Jul 17, 2024 | Blog

Written by Alexandra Erdman
This past week, Team Sender One LAX and Team Sender One SNA traveled to Salt Lake City to compete in USAC Youth Nationals 2024. We sent a total of 25 athletes to Salt Lake City; 5 from LAX and 20 from SNA. Overall, Team Sender One SNA placed 12th and Team Sender One LAX placed 82nd out of 126 teams! While Sender One had athletes competing in all three disciplines (Bouldering, Lead, and Speed), Speed Climbing is where Team Sender One truly shined:

Back in April of this year, Sender One LAX hosted a Youth Speed QE in which Michael set an MYA National Record of 5.236 seconds. As he won Worlds last year, he is pre-qualified for it again this year. However, Michael did attend Youth Nationals as a Sender One Team Coach.

Photo by: Jason Chang @theshortbeta | Photo: Michael Hom breaks National Record at Youth Speed QE, Sender One LAX

There were three open spots for Worlds. To qualify, a competitor must either place 1st overall or get one of the two fastest times in the competition. To secure their places on the World Team, Logan and Taede had to do either of those two things. But this competition was not so cut-and-dry, as it actually held quite a few twists and turns, according to Michael. “Sartaaj won the Youth C speed before Logan and I got there, so we were all super hyped for his victory.”

Photo By: Caleb Timmerman | Photo of Youth C Podium

The first twist in the competition was when the second fastest person, Zaden Rogers false started, meaning that his foot left the pad before the timer began and, therefore,  could not move on to finals. Another very fast climber, Lucas Vales, “lost his first race due to a slip at the top,” leaving Logan and Taede with the fastest times. But Logan’s spot on the world team wasn’t secured yet. He was the second fastest climber by a slim 0.005 seconds and on top of that, he slipped on his seconds finals race. This meant that he  would not be able to race for another time. Only one other climber, Joshua Jan, had the speed to beat Logan. As it turned out, Joshua ended up also slipping on his second finals race which guaranteed Logan’s place on the World Team. Finally, Michael explained, “the craziest part of the competition was Taede flawlessly winning all rounds of qualifiers and finals to secure the national championship title” while also achieving a personal best of 5.624 seconds. When asked how it felt to be headed to Worlds, Michael said: “It feels pretty crazy that all three of us are going to worlds in China. Last year when Logan and I went to Seoul, it was already exciting that two of us from Sender were going, so the fact that three of us are attending this year is even more insane. Im also super psyched for it because there are a lot of fast people that will be there from a bunch of different countries, so we get to train hard to compete with them.”

Team Sender One SNA placed 3rd in the team speed rankings out of 53 teams competing at this event! This will be the second national banner for Team Sender One SNA. From Team Sender One: Michael, Logan, and Taede are heading to Youth Worlds in China in just over 6 weeks! On top of that, Sender One is also now home to 2 National Champions:  Sartaaj - 2024 MYC Speed National Champion! Taede -  2024 MYA Speed National Champion! Below is a list of where more members from Team Sender One LAX and Team Sender One SNA placed at Nationals, as reported by two of our coaches. If you’re interested in viewing overall scores you can visit this link.

Update: As of Friday July 19th, Alexis, an alternate for the World Team has been subbed in and will be attending Worlds in China next month. That means 4 Sender One athletes will be headed to China, instead of 3!

We are so unbelievably proud of our Youth Climbing Teams. If you see any of our athletes or coaches around the gym be sure to congratulate them on their hard work. And if you happen to see Michael, Logan or Taede around, wish them luck as they train for Worlds!

Photo By: Tony Wang | Photo of Team Sender One SNA

Speed Youth-C

Sartaaj placed 1st and is 2024 MYV Speed National Champion!

Ainsleigh placed 27th in FYC

Shion placed 18th in MYC

Nicole advanced to finals and placed 15th in FYC  

Speed Youth-B

Alexis placed 6th in FYB 

Lilysa placed 20th in FYB 

Matthew placed 23rd in MYB 

Evelyn placed 32nd in FYB

Gavin placed 40th in MYB

Mia placed 51st in FYB

Speed Youth-A

Taede placed 1st and is 2024 MYA Speed National Champion and is going to worlds!

Logan placed 5th in MYA and qualified for worlds though 2nd place in time rank

Maddi placed 9th in FYA

Gray placed 22nd in MYA

Izzy placed 32nd in FYA

Kang placed 34th in MYA

Speed Junior

Emma finished 22nd in FJR (that’s in the nation wow!)

Marcus placed 14th in MJR

Jack made it knockout finals and finished 15th

Zoe placed 21st in FJR

Casey placed 23rd in MJR

Noah placed 34th in MJR  

Boulder Qualification

 Sartaaj placed 24th in MYC

Lilysa placed 37th in MYB

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