Nationals Camp – BlocHaven

Camp INFO

July 1st thru 3rd

This 3 day camp is designed for those athletes who are looking to step up their mental and physical game before heading to Chicago for Nationals.

The camp will be led by nationally renowned Coaches Kerry Scott, Jackie Petit, Matt Jones, and Will Snader.

The goal of the camp is to provide athletes with an intensive preparation environment to help instill confidence in their abilities for Nationals.

Cost: $450

A lunch option will be available, but if there are major dietary restrictions or if you’d prefer to bring your own lunch, please do!

The Coaches

Kerry Scott

A lifelong climber and longtime competitor. As a kid, she qualified for the US National team in 2011, 2012, and 2014. She started coaching intermediate teams at Earth Treks in Rockville when she was still in high school. In 2014, she moved to North Carolina to study at UNC Chapel Hill, and in 2015 she started working with the elite team at Triangle Rock Club. After she graduated college with a BS degree in mathematics, she started working with Team ABC in Boulder, Colorado. She worked with elite youth athletes from all over the country as a US National team coach for the Youth World Championships in 2018 and 2019.

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She is an avid climber and competitor as well. She has bouldered v12 and climbed 5.14a, including her recent first female ascent of Mango Tango at the New River Gorge. She also makes regular appearances in semi-finals at the National Cups for both bouldering and sport climbing, and she likes to give back to USAC by being an athlete member of both the Ethics and Judges Committees.
Throughout her climbing career, she has been particularly interested in the mental aspect. She has a passion for refining her own mental game in both outdoor and competition climbing, and she strives to share what she has learned with anyone who is interested. Competition climbing can be a lot of pressure, but Kerry has always been an advocate for having fun and enjoying the experience.

Jackie Petit

Coach Jackie has been climbing for 13 years and enjoys bouldering and sport climbing outdoors. She has coached for the last 10 years and gained much of her experience from coaching alongside talented coaches such as: Jacky Goodoff, Josh Larson, Meg Coyne, Meghan McDonald, Claudiu Vidulescu, and Udo Newman to say a few.

During Jackie’s years of coaching she led the Stone Summit Team in 5 successful years of competition climbing, holding the top three ranking team in the country from 2015-2020.

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Some of Jackie’s athletes from Stone Summit:
- Zack Galla
  
  US Team athlete
  
  Multi first place Nationalist in Youth and Adult
- Zander Waller:
  
  Top 4 ranking in Youth Nationals
  
  Top 4 ranking in Youth World Cup for Sport and Bouldering
  
  Top 10 ranking at Elite National Championship events
- Emma Hunt
  
  Top 4 placing Nationalist in Youth and Adult
  
  US Team athlete
  
  Speed record holder
  
  World Cup 1st place holder and record breaker.
- Callie Close
  
  Top 4 placing Nationalist in Youth and Adult
  
  World Cup athlete
- Luke Tillery
  
  Multi 1st place Nationalist in Sport and Boulders
- Ella Tillery
  
  Top 4 placing athlete at Sport Nationals
- Helen Stephens
  
  Top 4 placing athlete at Youth Nationals
  
  Qualified for Youth US Team
  
  Competed at World Cups
Some of Jackie’s accomplishments:
- Head Coach of Mesa Rim Reno 2020-2022
- Head Coached for Stone Summit from 2015-2020
  
  Winning there 1st ever National 1st place team title in bouldering
  
  Holding the Team in the top three placing team from 2015-2020
- Bringing consistently 20 + athletes to Nationals in Sport, Speed, and Bouldering during my time at Stone Summit.
- Coaching 5 years of successful training camps at Stone Summit to athletes from all over the country.
- Traveling to France and coaching the French National Team in their winter boulder training camp with Jacky Goodoff 2018
Now Jackie has the privilege of being part of the Mesa Rim community and Head Coaching in Reno and is looking forward to sharing her expertise in competition movement, mental toughness training, and injury prevention with members of her program.
To set up a private training session with Jackie please email her at: JackiePettitt@MesaRim.com

Matt Jones

Matt has been training internationally competitive climbers for over a decade. He’s coached for Vertical World and Earth Treks and assisted countless youth athletes find success in the indoor competition scene as well as outdoors.

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Will Snader

10+ years experience training elite level athletes, with athletes competing at National level events for the last 7 years.

Competition Accolades:

3rd at 2014 ABS nationals

Hotel info

Friday, July 1st thru Monday, July 4th

We’ve secured a block of hotel rooms for this event, please pay attention to the cut off date to reserve your room and we hope you enjoy your time here!

Home2Suites by Hilton

Choice of King or Queen/Queen room
Each room also has a pullout sofa

$129 a night + tax
Valet parking only with a reduced daily fee of $10 – no self park option onsite
72 hour cancel policy on all confirmed reservations

Please make reservations no later than June 1, 2022

Reservation line: 1-800-445-8667

Please do NOT call the hotel directly as they do not make reservations on property

Group Name: BlocHaven Youth

Group Code: BHY

Please note that rooms are available for the dates of the block only. Any reservations outside of the block need to be emailed to ktolbert@sycamoreinvestments.com

Hotel: Home2 Suites by Hilton Greenville Downtown
Group Name: BlocHaven Youth Climbing
Arrival Date: 2022-07-01
Departure Date: 2022-07-04

Reservations Open

Daily Schedule

8am – 5pm each day

FRIDAY

Mental Preparation + Movement Stations

Day 1 will focus mainly on mental preparation, warm ups, highlighting various movements and situational climbing.

SATURDAY

1 Onsight Round Mock Comp + Group work at movement stations

Day 2 will begin where each athlete can apply what they’ve learned from Day 1 into a single onsight round of 4 climbs.

It will also include a debrief time with our coaches plus more movement stations and scenarios for each athlete to work through.

SUNDAY

1 Onsight Round Mock Comp + Open Climb w/ Coaches

Day 3 will begin with another single onsight round of climbs for each category including a debrief time with our coaches and some open climb time to work with the coaches on any specific areas.

Items to bring

Climbing Shoes

Plenty of Chalk

Tape

Water Bottle

Plenty of Snacks

Notebook and Pen/Pencil

***A lunch option will be available, but if there are major dietary restrictions or if you’d prefer to bring your own lunch, please do!

***We also have our cafe which serves coffee, smoothies, and grab and go snacks