Kajsa Rosén (19) - A new star in the making

Last year, Kajsa Rosén was Top-10 in two Lead World Cups and onsighted an 8a+. This year she onsighted, with ease, T-1 Full Equip 8c in Oliana and last weekend she won the European Youth Cup in Imst. The 19-year-old is a new star in the making! (c) Stefan Ösund What is your climbing background? My parents climb, so I've been hanging by a cliff since early age. Back then I didn't enjoy climbing very much and where mostly whining. My former love/hate- relationship to climbing has by the time developed to pure love. Now I'm the one in my family who mostly nag about climbing, while the others seem to get tired about the fact that it's takes all of my time. How do you live your current climbing life? I spend a lot of hours training at my everyday gym "klättercentret". Now when the weather allows for outdoor climbing I try do get that into my weekly climbing as well. Some days I start with an indoor session and then I join my friends (but mostly my dad) to climb outdoors after their work. I would say outdoor climbing is my biggest passion and my family usually go abroad to climb every summer. Sometimes I also manage to sneak in some more travelling at the holidays. I would lie if I said I was an "lifestyle" climber though, me and my coach Daniela Ebler has a good contact and I follow the schedule she gives me quite strictly. However, we discuss my training together to agree on what training works best for me. How can you explain your great progress lately? I'm very dedicated as a person and take my training seriously. I guess training has paid off. Personally I can't see any major changes in my climbing level lately, it's more of an slow progress. I guess stuff has just gone my way. What is your future plan and ambition? I'm graduating now in the beginning of June and I don't have any clear future plan so far, which makes me a bit nervous. I know I'm going to work some at klättercentret, the gym when I mostly spend my time at the moment. Then, some competitions and hopefully also some outdoor climbing abroad. My ambition is simply to develop as a climber and on the meantime enjoy the climbing and , hopefully, the progress I make.