birmingham boulders youth climbing teams

Birmingham Boulders sees the potential in all of our young climbers and we believe that they are the future of our sport.

We have created a coaching program that builds your child’s confidence as well as their physical fitness. Each practice session includes warm-up exercises, skills drills, and climbing games to help your child become an all-around strong climber. Low instructor to student ratios allow for a more individualized coaching experience.

2025 climbing team

Our youth climbing team is the perfect place for kids (ages 8-18) to learn the sport of rock climbing and Birmingham Boulders is the perfect facility! Our program is suitable for kids of all ability levels. Whether your child is just interested in climbing for fun, or wants to be the next USA climbing champion, we’ve got you covered.

Climbing is a full body workout that helps develop dexterity and problem solving skills. We have so much fun watching each individual on the team progress and challenge themselves with new and harder boulder problems (routes).

Our youth team program includes a recreational team and a competitive team, allowing us to accept more children into the program. However, we are currently running our program at limited capacity, so we have a waitlist for open spots on either team.

Recreational Team

B2's recreational team is designed for children ages 8-16, who may have a little bit of climbing experience (though it's not required!). We meet twice a week for 1.5 hour sessions, and focus on an engaging introduction to climbing fundamentals with games, projecting, and drills intended to form good habits and technique for young climbers.

Our recreational team meets from 4:00pm - 5:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays year-round.

Competitive Team

B2's competitive team is designed for kids ages 8-18, who have some prior experience climbing and have an interest in learning advanced techniques and training, and/or to compete in local and regional level events. We meet twice a week for 2 hour sessions, and work to improve climbing technique and become well-rounded climbers.

Our competitive team meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30pm - 7:30pm year-round.

Time in the recreational program is a prerequisite to joining the competitive team.

Tryouts will be held intermittently throughout the year to allow eager climbers to grow and join the competitive team.