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Taylor Reed has been instructing climbing since 2002, and has been a coach since 2005. He’s had the opportunity to coach and teach climbing all over the world. For his “day job,” he’s Director of Research for an energy analytics company.

Director of Climbing Training Center

Taylor worked with Sportrock Climbing Centers to design and build a dedicated training center. Under his leadership, Sportrock won every Divisional Championship from 2022-2024. While there, he formed a youth program based on best practice long-term athlete development principles, built an athlete management system, incorporated science-backed objective training assessments, and incorporated data analytics into athlete readiness and training.

National and International Support to athletes and coaches

Taylor has coached over two dozen US youth team members, 3 adult US team members, and youth team members from China and Finland. He was World Cup Coach for Team Puerto Rico (2023).

Taylor has been a speaker at the Canadian, Japanese, and US Climbing Coach Symposiums, and was on the technology advisory board for Luxov Climbing. Additionally, he has delivered a plenary lecture at the International Rock Climbing Research Association’s Tokyo (Japan) conference, and moderated training and development panels of researchers and coaches at the Bern (Switzerland) and Prague (Czech Republic) conferences.

He is currently vice president for the International Rock Climbing Research Association.

Coaching Support for Competition Medalists

2025 US North American Cup (Bronze)
2024 US Team Trials (Silver)
2023 US Youth National Championships (Silver)
2023 US Collegiate National Championships (Silver)
2023 US North American Cup (Gold, Bronze)
2023 US Youth National Championships (Bronze)
2022 US Team Trials (Silver, Bronze)
2022 US Collegiate Nationals (Gold)
2022 US Youth National Championships (Silver)
2021 US Youth National Championships (Gold)
2019 IFSC World Championships (Bronze)

Coaching Support for Outdoor Accomplishments

First 5.15a for male outdoor athlete
First 5.14 for multiple female outdoor athletes
First V13/14 for two male outdoor athletes
First V12 for female outdoor athlete.
Over 20+ V10’s for two youth athletes in their first year climbing at the grade.

Certifications

Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) – National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
Certified Sports Nutritionist from the International Society of Sports Nutrition (CISSN)

Climbing Research

Co-Author for:

Breen, M., Reed, T., Nishitani, Y., Jones, M., Breen, H. M., & Breen, M. S. (2023). Wearable and non-invasive sensors for rock climbing applications: Science-based training and performance optimization. Sensors, 23(11), 5080. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23115080

Breen, M., Reed, T., Breen, H. M., Osborne, C. T., & Breen, M. S. (2022). Integrating Wearable Sensors and Video to Determine Microlocation-Specific Physiologic and Motion Biometrics-Method Development for Competitive Climbing. Sensors, 22(16), 6271. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22166271