Andrew Lumsden honoured with President's Award
- Last Updated: Sunday, 11 November 2018 11:26
Big Foot stalwart Andrew Lumsden has been honoured with the President's Award for 2018 for decades of outstanding service to orienteering in NSW.
Andrew started in orienteering in the early 1970s in Victoria and quickly became one of Australia’s most promising juniors.
Since then he has worked countless hours unpaid on orienteering over the past 30 years including controlling major carnivals, mapping, negotiating landowner access and creating the framework of technical systems that ensures the quality of our events.
A new award this year is Volunteer of the Year. This went to Garingal couple John and Liz Bulman who readily assist at school regional carnivals, school programs, Space Racing, the SOS and promotional events.
We congratulate our major award winners:
President's Junior Award - Alastair George (Big Foot)
Club of the Year - WHO
Course Setter of the Year - Colin Price (Central Coast)
Rookie of the Year - Melanie Christie (Uringa)
Encouragement Award - Maurice Anker (Northern Tablelands)
Volunteer of the Year - John & Liz Bulman (Garingal)
Interclub Trophy - Newcastle
Click on the blue links for the major award citations and our OY badge winners.
Thanks to the Waverton North Sydney Club for the lovely venue, and to Bold Horizons for the challenging courses on so many levels - all with the sublime views of the bridge and harbour.
BOSS 1 a hot ticket
- Last Updated: Tuesday, 06 November 2018 17:21
The heat was on for the opening event in Newcastle's mountain bike orienteering summer series (BOSS) at Columbey National Park on Saturday.
Temperatures in the mid-30s made for thirsty work, but weather aside the area had everything: fast single tracks and roads, some difficult route selections and some really fun downhills with water diversion berms to jump off.
There was even a creek crossing, which was handlebar-deep if you tried going through the middle of the crossing.
Following some advertising on the local MTB Facebook page we had 18 first-timers which was a great result. With a little help with their route planning, most navigated around the course and the points were fairly close in the All Score category.
"I'll be back," said first-timer Ginaya. "Thanks for the warm welcome to everyone there. A well-run event."
"Was great fun. Will be back," added Rob.
Steve Todkill travelled around 24km in the 75 minutes and was two controls short of clearing the course. Carolyn Matthews continued her fine form being first of the ladies and at the pointy end overall. Cassie Thompson came in ahead of Margaret Peel in the ladies all-score class with Mick Cann and Isaac Mordue fighting it out in the men’s class.
It was a great result for promotion and introducing riders to MTBO. Thanks to Greg Bacon for this report and well done to Newcastle. BOSS 2 is on Sun Nov 25 at Wallaroo State Forest.
Orange rounds out ONSW school champs calendar
- Last Updated: Monday, 05 November 2018 16:31
Our Goldseekers club in Orange hosted our final gala day for 2013 at Gosling Creek Reserve.
About 50 youngsters from Orange, Manildra and Molong Public Schools had a great time hunting down controls on 10 courses set by our new Scottish scholar Grace Molloy.
In the morning courses ranged from very easy with just a few controls to harder courses that were longer, with more controls and some simple route choice options. Most students went in pairs and did 3 or more courses.
After lunch there was the 'organised chaos' of a relay teams contest where they put in an enthusiastic effort. Everyone went away happy!
This was our 13th regional champs/gala day for 2018 and we are delighted to report a record aggregate attendance of around 2,650 students at these events.
Thanks Goldseekers, thanks Basil for organising.
2019 High Performance calendar released
- Last Updated: Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:25
Orienteering Australia has released its High Performance calendar for 2019.
The highlight for NSW is the return to the complex gold mining terrain of Hill End for the opening rounds of the National Orienteering League and our State League, on March 30-31.
We host the NOL again with the NSW Middle and Long Champs near Cowra in mid-May.
The NOL finishes on home turf with the Oceania champs in the Riverina (hosted by ACT) in September-October.
The Oceania Sprint at CSU Wagga on September 28 will also be the 2019 Australian University Orienteering Championships, conducted in the M/W20E and M/W21E classes. It will be open to all students enrolled in an Australian university in 2019 who enter in those age categories.
NOL events 1-6 will be selection trials for the 2019 JWOC team.
NOL events 1-2, 5-6 and 8-10 will be used for selection of the 2019 WOC team, with particular focus on events 9-10.
For all squad athletes there will be two weekends set for physical test time trials in February and March.
You can view the 2019 HP calendar here.
