Colorado State climbing team wins national championship

Led by women's sports climbing national champion, Delaney Miller, the CSU climbing team won the club national team championship April 17-18 in San Diego.

The Rams scored 386 points, beating runner-up Texas by 89 points. The University of Colorado was third.

Ryan Fiore placed second in men's sports climbing and Jacob Gadwa was seventh in men's speed climbing. Hailey Bridgewater added a fifth place finish in women's bouldering.

The event was sponsored by USA Climbing.

This was the first year the CSU climbing team competed as one of CSU's 31 sport clubs.

Xplore reporter Stephen Meyers covers the outdoors and recreation for the Coloradoan. Follow him on Twitter @stemeyer or Facebook.com/meyersreports.