Lukas Strauss-Wise

Bend Climbing Team

ABS Nationals 2011. Photo-Bob Lockhart

Lukas Strauss-Wise

Bend Climbing Team

Climbing Since: 2009        

Competing Since: 2010

Age: 11

Climbing Shoe: Five.Ten Teams

Notable Competition Results: USA Climbing Team member 2010.  Has received an invitation to ABS Nationals for the past 2 years.

• SCS 2011 Divisional Championships, Momentum, Sandy, UT-  1st Place, Male Youth D.
• SCS 2011 Regional Championships, Clubsport, Tigard, OR- 1st Place, Male Youth D.
• ABS 2011 National Championships, Boulder, CO- 3rd Place, Male Youth D.
• ABS 2011 Pacific Northwest Regional Championships, Vertical World, Tacoma, WA- 2nd Place, Male Youth D
• ABS 2010 National Championships, SportRock, Alexandria, VA- 10th Place.
• ABS 2010 Pacific Northwest Regional Championships, Edgeworks, Tacoma, WA- 4th Place Male Youth D.

About Lukas:

Lukas has been climbing on the Bend Climbing Team for the past two seasons and has proved himself to be a hard working climber and a level headed yet fierce competitor.  While Lukas enjoys hard bouldering sessions in the gym he would just as soon be outside at Smith Rock transferring his climbing skills to the welded tuff.  Leading hard 10’s at Smith at age ten he’s well on his way to leading his age at 11.  Even at his young age Lukas is a role model in the climbing community supporting climbers of all abilities and ages and his passion for the sport is contagious.