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Sat 6 Apr 9:00 am
Forest Orienteering and Navigation Skills Day
Smiths Creek Reserve, Campbelltown (meet at Waminda Reserve, Macquarie Av, Campbelltown.

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Sun 7 Apr 9:00 am
Waggaroos Local event, Willan's Hill plus LTO Training session
Lord Baden Powell Drive, Willans Hill, Wagga Wagga.

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Sun 7 Apr 9:30 am
2024 Metro League #1 - Appin
Scout Hall, Burke St, Appin

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Sun 7 Apr 9:30 am
NOY1 - Archery Ridge (Elrington)
Archery Ridge (1:10,000)

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Sun 7 Apr 10:00 am
Mount Brown
4.5 km on Torryburn Road

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Sun 7 Apr 10:00 am
Goldseekers Bush Series #2 - Bridal Track Reserve
Clifton Grove (only a few minutes' drive out of Orange).

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Sat 13 Apr 1:00 pm
Highlands Forest Series #1 - Penrose State Forest
Penrose Forest North, 1:10,000

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Sun 14 Apr 9:30 am
2024 NSW State League #4 - Snow Hills (ACT Classic Series; ACT League #3)
Snows Hill . Mayfield Cross Road, Mayfield. About 1 hour drive south of Goulburn and 1.5 hours east of Canberra

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Sun 14 Apr 2:00 pm
Bluebottles April Camp at Belanglo
Belanglo State Forest.

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Sun 21 Apr 9:30 am
NOY2 - Redgum Ridges (Freemans Waterhole)
 Redgum Ridges 1:10 000

Welcome to Orienteering NSW

Orienteering is a sport that challenges both the body and the mind. It's also loads of fun!

The aim is to use a special orienteering map to navigate your way around a course and visit marked check points along the way. You choose a course that suits your age and experience and proceed at your own pace: walk, jog or run. It is a race but you decide if you want to just race yourself or be the next world champion! The course may take you through urban areas, parks, schools, farmland or forests.

Events are conducted weekly across NSW and beginners are welcome at all events.

New to orienteering? Click here for more information.

Want to enter an event? You can see what's on by looking at the Coming Events at left or by going to the Event Calendar. Some events are enter on the day - you just turn up and register at the start. Other events require pre-entry and for that you need to know about (and register with) Eventor - read the Eventor FAQ.


Bennelong bound ahead in Division 1

Newly promoted Bennelong have continued their unbeaten run in Division 1 of the MetrO League with an easy win over a severely depleted WHO at Nurragingy in round 3 on Sunday.

Hosts and defending champions Big Foot downed a similarly under-strength Garingal to record their first win of the season.

Nurragingy is a western Sydney parkland that is entirely flat and very fast running, hence we had some crazily quick times in all divisions - the very fast KNOX boys (some with sub-20 minute times!) enjoyed big wins to sit atop Divisions 3 and 5.

The GO Frill Necks are the only unbeaten team in a tight Division 2, while Division 4 looks like being a contest between Big Foot and the GO Monitors.

Thankfully the predicted rain held off and it was a lovely morning. It was great to see three of our NSW schools team rookies - Cameron Will, Oliver Freeman and Cooper Horley scoring highly in Division 2. 

Thanks to Big Foot, especially setter Miles Ellis who did most of the workload and gave us a neat history lesson in his briefing.

You can find all the results on the ML web page, including the individual points tallies. A reminder that our next event is this Sunday with the rescheduled Round 1 at Boronia Park.

 

2019 NSW Schools Team named

Students from seven of our clubs are in the 2019 NSW Schools team (the Carbines) for the Australian championships in Wagga Wagga in the October holidays.
 
There are five new faces: Selwyn Sweeney (Western & Hills) and Cameron Will (Illawarra Kareelah, pictured top) in the senior boys, Cooper Horley (Garingal) in the junior boys, and Erika Enderby (Newcastle, pictured below) and Martine Valais (WHO) in the junior girls.
 
A team of 20 has been selected, the maximum allowed. The strong family element of orienteering is reflected in there being three sets of siblings in the team.
 

Congratulations to the following students upon their selection:

Senior Girls: Niamh Cassar (WH), Ellen Currie (GO), Tshinta Hopper (BN), Andra Leung (GO) 

Senior Boys: Ewan Shingler (BF), Oscar Woolford (BB), Selwyn Sweeney (WH), Cameron Will (IK)

Junior Girls: Erika Enderby (NC), Mikayla Enderby (NC), Iida Lehtonen (GO), Nea Shingler (BF), Julia Barbour (BF), Martine Valais (WH)

Junior Boys: Alvin Craig (NC), Oskar Mella (NC), Sam Woolford (BB), Jamie Woolford (BB), Oliver Freeman (BF), Cooper Horley (GO) 

All selected will travel with the team to the Riverina and run in the three schools championship events from October 1-3 (Sprint, Individual and Relay), while also competing in the other major events on both weekends of the carnival.

Manager Damien Enderby will be in contact with team members to co-ordinate travelling arrangements.

ONSW thanks selectors Jock Davis, Hilary Wood and Rob Bennett for their time and energy spent in this important role, and to the Carbine Club for their generous financial support.

 

Schofields win Sydney West PS champs

Schofields PS has won the Sydney West primary schools champs for the first time. 

Fred Caterson Reserve in Castle Hill is the venue for these champs: a superb area with bushland surrounding the ovals. The tracks, termite mounds and a chance to have a little bush bash ensured big smiles all day. Some kids did not know what an 'ant hill' was. They do now!

First-timers Bilpin PS took out day one on Wednesday, but Schofields' points tally on Thursday was higher.

These regional champs start with a map walk with a coach to learn the ropes. Then follows an age race and a 3-person relay with a mass start that is so much fun to watch.

A huge thank you to Barbara Hill and her big team of helpers, and to Rebecca the co-ordinating teacher.

We love to hear kids - and teachers - say: "We're definitely coming back next year!"

 

Family affair as WaggaRoos win Interclub 4

The extended Seaman family has led WaggaRoos to a comfortable victory over Albury Wodonga in event 4 of their Interclub Challenge at Connorton on Sunday.

Seven-year-old Ryder Seaman won the Easy course, his father Trent won the Moderate course, his mother Briohny took out the Long Hard course, and his grandmother Deb Davey won the Short Hard course to guide WaggaRoos to a 52-38 victory for the day. That's some pedigree!

With four of the eight events contested, WaggaRoos has retaken the overall lead 187-174.

In the Interclub Challenge, points are awarded for participating, completing a course and to the placegetters on each course. The points earned by place-getters are weighted in favour of the longer and harder navigation courses.

Thanks to John Oliver for this report.

 

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