Four NSW orienteers named in AUS teams for NZ Tests
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- Last Updated: Wednesday, 06 April 2016 15:24
Garingal club champion Toby Wilson has been selected to make his Australian debut in Test matches in New Zealand in June.
Toby has been on the fringes of national junior honours in the past 18 months and impressed at the recent Easter carnival in the ACT despite suffering a fractured wrist at State League 1 the weekend prior.
He joins clubmates and junior world championship representatives Michele and Aidan Dawson, and Newcastle's Nicola Blatchford, in the Bushrangers team for the events near Wellington from June 4-6.
Michele and Nicola will be making their senior debuts, while Aidan is in the junior team for the second year in a row
The three Test races will present athletes with complex sand-dune terrain challenges, similar to those in the 2013 NZ World Cup. Many team members have just completed a full week’s tough training in ACT, the second national training camp for the year. This has been good technical and physical preparation for the demands of the NZ races.
A special congratulations also to Victorian mother-son combination Natasha and Aston Key for their selections. Natasha, 44, is a former world championship representative and World Masters gold medallist. She has been in scintillating form this year against much younger opponents in all three formats.
Aston, 15, was named Australian Orienteer of the year for 2015 and is a rising star in the sport. The full story from OA is here.
