Kids Teams
Where Climbing Higher Is Just The Beginning
The best kids rock climbing San Diego offers! Stay updated on competition dates, training information, youth climbing resources, and general team information on our blog: www.TeamMesaRim.WordPress.com
We support kids rock climbing!
Scroll down to learn about our Youth Team Scholarship and apply!
Kids Recreational Team
Become part of a team who loves climbing as much as you do! For ages 7-18, Mesa Rim’s Youth Recreational Team is designed for guys and gals interested in improving all aspects of their climbing abilities in a fun and engaging team environment. Learn strength and technique exercises, receive climber-specific coaching, and enjoy a wide range of climbing activities. Mesa Rim’s Recreational Team brings kids in the community together! We believe rock climbing for kids builds strength, confidence, and friendships in an environment that encourages each climber to reach their highest potential! All abilities welcome.
Cost: $100/month in addition to membership
Prerequisites: Ages 7-18
Kids Competitive Team
For kid climbers who want achieve their maximum potential, join Mesa Rim’s Youth Competitive Team! For climbers ages 7-18, Mesa Rim offers coaching, regular training, and testing your skills in ABS and USAC competitions. Climbers will be coached to improve strength, technique, endurance, power, and competition skills.
Training sessions will include direct instruction during bouldering, roped climbing, 4x4’s and mock competitions, as well as exercises to enhance flexibility and prevent injury. Coaches will work with each climber to set goals, assess and log progress in order to ensure constant improvement.
Plus, it’s sure to be fun!
Cost: $175/month in addition to membership
Duration: Monday/Wednesday 4-6pm, Friday 4-6pm
Prerequisites: Ages 7-19
2013 Mesa Rim Youth Team Scholarship
Download the application and view qualifications and full scholarship benefits
The Mesa Rim/Outdoor Outreach Youth Team scholarship is awarded for two San Diego youth who seek to enrich their lives through the physical and mental activity provided by rock climbing and the camaraderie developed in a team environment. This is a need based scholarship that is designated for families with a total household income less than $50,000. Priority will be given to those in need of financial assistance.
Scholarship includes:
• 1 year of membership to Mesa Rim Climbing Center
• 1 year of membership in the Youth Climbing Team
• 1 year of paid dues to USA Climbing
• 1 year of paid competition fees for local, regional, divisional, and national ABS and SCS competitions
• Mesa Rim Team apparel and one harness and one pair of climbing shoes
Please email scholarship@mesarim.com for questions.
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Meet the Coaches at Mesa Rim!
Nicole Grider
Head Coach + L3 Setter
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Hooked on climbing since the first day she tried it at fourteen years old, Nico’s been climbing indoors and outdoors as much as humanly possible. She’s also competed nationally! Setting is special to Nico, because she’s able to transform ideas from her head into an awesome reality, mixing the physical fun of climbing with pure creativity to produce something that everyone can enjoy. Nico tries to challenge herself by setting different styles of routes with her favorites being sustained, technical climbs on slightly overhanging terrain. She also loves to use pinches and crimps, making people use their feet. The best part about setting is watching people have fun and work hard on something that started out in her imagination! She also provides excellent rock climbing training for our kids team at Mesa Rim.
Rosie Bates
Assistant Coach + L1 Setter
Being a Jedi Master of Beta, Rosie Bates is a coach as well as woman of rock climbing talent who is deeply committed to the sport. “The Aeneid” is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil. A quote from the legendary story reads “Possunt quia, posse videntur”; this translates into the “They are able because They think they are able” a motto Rosalie Bates lives her life of. Similar to Virgil, the Buddha says we are shaped by our thoughts’ and we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Rosie Bates understands that life is all about attitude, she applies this to climbing as the sport is more than what meets the eye. It’s more than finger strength but the mind’s capacity to overcome obstacles. Climbing is a mental game about staying in the moment; if your mind wanders on the wall you’ll fall off. Nonetheless, it makes sense that she’s a Psychology major at the University of San Diego. At USD she has established a school rock climbing team, which now has over 30 members. Through teaching she passes down everything she knows to her pupils of all ages. Her weapons of choice are a pair of 5.10 moccasyms and a rack of trad gear. She has been climbing since 2004, crushed the longest route in Red Rocks and competed twice at ABS nationals as a youth competitor. Her skills are only growing and her journey only continues.
