2024-2025 Youth Season Updates
Dear Athletes, Parents, and Coaches,
We are gearing up and getting excited for the 2024-2025 Youth Season! Last season we developed a Competition Committee which was responsible for creating the schedules for the new seasons and also reviewing practices and policies of how we run our Competition series in Alberta. The Competition Committee put forward several suggestions on how we can change our policies to encourage further development of Alberta athletes to prepare them for the National and International stages. At our most recent Board meeting, which was October 20, 2024, the members of the Board voted on and passed the proposed changes. This email is meant to update our membership to help you properly prepare for the upcoming season.
Tier 1 and Tier 2 Competitions
All athletes can choose to compete in Tier 1 Competitions. Tier 1 competitions are meant to challenge our top ranked athletes.
Tier 2 competitions are for Youth B/A/Junior athletes, who would like to gain more competition experience and are looking for further development on boulders and routes that have a more attainable difficulty level.
Athletes ranked in the top 30% of their category at the end of Alberta's 2023-2024 competition season in Youth events ARE NOT ELIGIBLE to compete in Tier 2 competitions.
You can review your rankings from last season using this link.
If you are a new athlete to Alberta and do not have a rank from our Province, you can compete in Tier 2 Competitions.
Points
Tier 2 competitions DO NOT provide points.
We have two locals per discipline per Tier this season.
Your ranking for the season will be based on BOTH Tier 1 locals and Provincials.
Provincials will be worth double the points from Locals.
Qualifying for Provincials
Our sport has been growing over the last few years, we are seeing many more athletes joining competitions, which has been incredibly exciting. This growth has also made us rethink how we can change our policies to run Provincial Competitions with more efficiency and provide the appropriate challenge required to determine which athletes are ready for Nationals. Therefore, we are implementing a policy where you must qualify to compete at Provincials.
The top 75% of a category will be invited to Provincials with a maximum of 30 and a minimum of 20.
We realize there are fairly significant changes and updates to the way our season will run this year. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us communications@albertaclimbing.org
Sincerely,
Jacquelyn Mitchell
ACA Team Manager
