Niamh cracks OA HP squads for 2019

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Last Updated: Wednesday, 09 January 2019 14:09

WHO rookie Niamh Cassar has capped a stellar year by being named in the 2019 Orienteering Australia High Performance Squads.

Niamh, 15, has just finished her first year competing on Hard courses and racked up some impressive wins in her age class at the NSW Middle Champs, NSW and ACT Sprint Champs and Australian Schools Sprint Champs. 

She has come to orienteering from athletics and enters the HP program at the Targeted Talent level, along with fellow high schoolers Ewan Shingler (Big Foot) and Newcastle prodigy Alvin Craig. 

Garingal has four representatives, Newcastle three and Big Foot two.

Nicola Blatchford and NSW junior squad coach Rob Bennett (NC) are in the second-tier National Development Squad, along with GO trio Toby Wilson and Michele and Aidan Dawson. 

Big Foot's JWOC rep Alastair George is in the Junior Development Squad, along with Garingal's Duncan Currie. They have both just finished their HSC.

Congratulations to these ten orienteers on their selections.