Firstly I would like to thank the lovely people who supported me last year. Without your help I would not be in the position I am in now. Re selected to compete for the Irish National team and for London‘s westway competition squad. I am Paola Neal-Fagan, 15 year old climber who represents Ireland in national and european competitions. This year will be my second year competing internationally and I hope to do even better than last year when I competed in europeans in Bulgaria, Portugal, Brussels and The Netherlands. My best result was 11th, just one place short of finals. With all the hard work and training I’m doing I hope to make finals this year.

I finished last years season with a ranking of 20th in the world for my age. These competitions showed me the flaws in my performance which I have been working hard to correct. I also loved bonding with the Irish team as well as teams from orher nations.

Over the recent months I have increased my training and added strength and conditioning to my programme working in the gym as well as lead and bouldering. I’m feeling strong and looking forward to competing. This year i will be posting much more on my social media such as my instagram (@paola_climbs) and will send monthly email updates to those who are supporting my endevours and follow me on my journey and hopefully the road to success and wining major competitions.

Here are some photos from competitions as well as training: