About Our Team
Climbing allows your child to experience something new, exciting, challenging, and unique. It allows your child to showcase their own physical and mental strength while building confidence. It will give your child the opportunity to build friendships with other climbers from all over the world. Being involved with a climbing team will teach your child the importance of teamwork, good sportsmanship, how to overcome setbacks, controlling their emotions, discipline, hard work and so much more. Your child will be able to showcase their talents in a sport they can call their own.
- We are one of the top climbing teams in the nation with more than 100 climbers and 10 coaches. We have worked with climbers from the beginner level to world champions.
- Our coaching staff has been trained through the Team USA Olympic Committee’s Coaches Accelerator Program, the Positive Coaches Alliance, and The Power Company Climbing, Climb Strong, and we hold USA Safe Sports, American Red Cross CPR certifications, and USA Climbing certifications. Our coaches are waiting and committed to building better athletes, and character through competitive climbing and challenging scenarios.
In order to create a culture of leadership through our entire team, we have a set of guidelines that we hold ourselves to when we come to practice everyday and travel for competitions:
- Support Your Teammates
- Learn From Others
- Welcome The Challenge
We have several different levels of team to ensure that youth climbers of all ages and abilities can find a place somewhere working with our staff of talented coaches. Each team is broken down by levels of commitment and ability, to ensure that each climber is working with a peer group of the same climbing level and commitment.
For more information and pricing, please contact Head Coach, Carter Smith at carter@trianglerockclub.com.
Team Club
The TRC Club is the first step in joining our competitive climbing team. This program focuses on bringing new climbers into our team community, without the expectations of our competitive team. We will introduce our objective-based goal-oriented training systems here, and help climbers learn how to develop a plan to reach their long-term and short-term goals. A few characteristics of this team would include:
- No competitive requirements
- National level coaching
- 1 night a week
- Follow some of the same curricula as team, but at a lower intensity
This program is the stepping stone for our competitive team. If you decide that the competitive team is something you would be interested in, please contact the lead coach at your gym to schedule an assessment.
Practice Schedule
- TRC-Durham: Wednesdays or Fridays, 5pm – 7pm
- TRC-Morrisville: Tuesdays or Fridays, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
- TRC-Raleigh: Fridays, 4:30pm – 6:30pm and 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Rates
- First Person, Non-Member: $115 / month
- Sibling, Non-Member: $105 / month
- Member (all): $104 / month
- Billed on the first of the month, unless changes are made by the 23rd of the previous month
Interested in joining Team Club?
Before committing to the program, please join us for a free trial practice! Our trial sessions provide an opportunity for your climber to experience a full class and decide if the program is a good fit. We cannot accept walk-ins. Please schedule a trail session online here. If unable to attend a trial listed on the calendar, please reach out to Carter Smith.
For the purpose of goal setting and finding the right fit for each climber, we have outlined the expectations of our competitive team below.
Competitive Team
Intermediate Team
Intermediate Climbers are encouraged to compete in 2 local climbing competitions during the regular season, which qualifies them for their participation in the Regional Championship. This will include the additional costs of a USA Climbing Membership for the season and the cost of participating in Regionals, along with the monthly costs of Team TRC. The bonus is, with this step up into the competitive program, your monthly membership to all Triangle Rock Club locations is included! Practices are held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:30pm – 6:30pm.
Rates
- 1st Child: $199 per month
- 2nd Child: $170 per month
- 3rd Child & Thereafter: $110 per month
Practice Schedule:
- Time Slots: 6:30pm and 8:30pm
- Practice Days: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Attendance Policy
All climbers are held to the following attendance policies:
- Please notify your gym’s Programs Manager by email or your gym’s Lead Coach in person if you are unable to make a practice.
- Climbers who miss two or more practices a month for unexcused reasons will be withdrawn from Team TRC
- Withdrawn climbers will have the opportunity to rejoin Team at the start of the next season.
- All absences excused and unexcused are determined by the Programs Manager and Lead Coach.
Excused absences include, but are not limited to:
- Illness, injury, or any medical obligation
- Family emergencies or family vacations
- Educational functions or homework
- Religious or cultural observance
Unexcused absences include, but are not limited to:
- Participation in practice for another sport
- Participation in any non-academic function
Personal Instruction
The programming we provide in practice is focused on safety first, group climbing activities, and working together to achieve mutual goals. We work to maintain an appropriate climber to coach ratio to ensure that everyone is safe and on task.
We have found that the additional investment from both the climber and coach in the 1 on 1 scenario of personal instruction goes a long way in solidifying the individual goals of each climber.
We typically run personal instruction lessons in blocks of 4 lessons at the beginning of each season to:
- Lesson 1: Establish Goals
- Lesson 2: Energy System Focus
- Lesson 3: Competition Simulation Focus
- Lesson 4: Review and Create Personalized Programming for Off-Days
Climbers take the lessons they learn in personal instruction into their weekly practice and off day climbing. These lessons help them focus their attention on the skills that will help them succeed during competition season.
Rate Per Lesson
- $60 for a 90 Minute Session
Safety Values
- Team TRC believes that safety comes first. Our coaches and climbers check the safety of our equipment at the beginning of practice.
- We host 2 safety and etiquette nights at Triangle Rock Club in Morrisville at the beginning of each season to ensure that each member of our team has the opportunity to understand the safe practices of bouldering, rope climbing and, etiquette around the gym.
- When rope climbing, we make sure to check each other’s safety equipment and give our safety commands before each climb, and we only allow the use of GriGri’s or other assisted locking safety devices for lead climbing. No tubes or ATC’s will be allowed for lead climbing.
- If you fail to perform your safety checks, or act in any way unsafe, the Team TRC Coaching staff reserves the right to revoke your certifications and climbing privileges until you have completed one of our 4 safety courses offered throughout the year.
USAC FAQ and Resources
In order to climb on our competitive team, you must compete at least in 2 local events per season, and the Regional Championship. In order to compete at any USAC event, you must first obtain a membership with USA Climbing. After you have obtained your membership you will be eligible to sign up for local and championship events through the host gym. Obtain a USAC membership here.
We compete in the Midsouth 602 Region of USA Climbing. Find all news, schedules, results, and contacts for our region here.
We will spend time during practice and at competitions learning the rules of competition climbing. However, we also encourage all of our parents to sit down with their climbers and watch the rules video of each discipline of climbing provided by USA Climbing here.